This weekend is Midsummer in Sweden – where the sun never sets.
For thousands of years, people have celebrated this moment, long before modern nations or quarterly earnings reports. It’s a reminder that life moves in seasons.
While we may know this intuitively, most achievers spend their lives trying to prove that limits don’t apply to them.
My parents left India and moved across Denmark, Germany, Canada, and America before settling in the Midwest. It was a journey that defied the limits of birth and geography. In my own life as a tech startup COO, every day was a race against time.
This instinct to transcend limits serves us well, until we believe that we’re exempt from every cycle. We’re not.
Nature has rhythms. And so do our lives.
There is a season for building and proving. A season for reflecting and teaching. And a season for enjoying the fruits of that labor.
Many successful people continue to pursue goals that made sense ten years ago, but no longer fit their reality today.
Is your current direction aligned with your current season? Or are you still chasing something that made more sense for a younger version of you?
Perhaps these are questions worth reflecting on this Midsummer, as we consider not just where we’re going, but whether the path we’re on still fits the season we’re in.
warmly,
Navin
P.S. Pic of Lexi the pitbull on Midsummer a couple years ago. This month, she passed on to Valhalla at the incredible age of nearly 15. My next newsletter will likely be about her.
