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As we start closing out Season 4 and reflections from the whole Seasonal Guide, I’d invite you to pause and take a moment to feel what you’ve taken in over the past year. Treat it similarly to shifting out of a period of stillness or a yoga practice, where you're coming to the world gently and slowly before emerging back to daily life. Respect where you are at this point. Honour the fact that you gave yourself time to create a new way of thinking, living and connecting in everyday life. How has that truly fed into building a solid foundation for better decision-making for your life and career?
As Anna Taylor says in her Yoga teaching book, take this closing pause to notice anything you would like to carry with you as you step off the mat or, in this case, The Seasonal Guide. Be it more steadiness, strength, peace or clarity. And notice where it plays out within the body, heart, and mind, acknowledging its ability to cultivate a sense for yourself:
“…while minds are quieter, hearts more open…we have a greater capacity to listen to intuitive insights that often arise when nervous systems are calmer.”
Similarly to Anna, see it as an invitation to consider and reflect on all of the things you have tried, liked and nourished you over the change of seasons. How can it offer you more of a sense of steadiness, a beam of light as you return to your daily life? How can your experiments with the practical tools be woven into your working life away from this guide? And in what way can you offer yourself some kindness or sense of balance that day, week, month or season as you move forward, with intent, in this new space and chapter of your life and career?
As you complete Season 4 and close the full Seasonal Guide, you’ve travelled through an entire emotional cycle — from confusion and boredom all the way to more confidence, clarity and self-trust. And like nature, each season has served a distinct purpose, and together I hope they’ve helped you to break old patterns, understand yourself more deeply and create a grounded foundation for the career change you want to make.
Across these months, you’ve learned to recognise the truth of your internal seasons rather than forcing yourself to operate at a single speed. You now understand how your energy naturally shifts — from the heaviness of the Meh Season, through the introspection of the Reflective Season, into the uncertainty of the Liminal Season, and finally toward the optimism and momentum of the Playful Rising Season.
And by becoming more attuned to your body and its rhythms — recognising how hormonal cycles, physiological changes and environmental factors shape your mood, motivation and capacity, you’ve learned to adjust your pace, expectations and self-talk with compassion, instead of pushing through everything. This awareness alone helps you make decisions from a place of alignment, not pressure.
You’ve also built the skill of naming your emotions with far greater accuracy. You’ve learned that pausing to label your mood brings more clarity, helping you to respond rather than react. You now notice what drains you, what nourishes you and what no longer feels aligned — information that forms the base of all strong decisions around your career path.
Throughout this journey, connection has played an essential role. You’ve seen how honest conversations with trusted people open up courage, perspective and grounding for career decisions. You’ve rediscovered the importance of surrounding yourself with those who get you, support you and remind you what you’re capable of and who you are at your core.
You’ve also learned to refine your values and Guiding Principles. Through the exercises, reflections and your own lived experience, you now have a clearer sense of what truly matters to you and how you want your work and life to feel. You’ve uncovered what no longer fits, and more importantly, the qualities you want to build your next chapter around.
This is the real purpose of The Seasonal Guide: not to rush you toward an outcome, but to help you build the inner foundations that make meaningful career change possible. You now have the tools, practices, insights and emotional literacy to continue shaping a future that feels true, human and genuinely aligned with who you are.
Making a decision is never straightforward, let alone a succession of decisions which can alter the course of your career. And moving on from something always brings on a whole range of emotions. So turning up and cultivating the space to commit to yourself with The Seasonal Guide as your companion was already a huge step forward, which took courage. Courage, which may not have been there in Season 1, where you may have been more defined by fear. And that's okay. It was all about permitting yourself to explore in the first place, acting on that sense that something had to change. So many feel it, but can't quite move beyond the status quo.
So I hope that you’ve opened yourself up to a new way of thinking, to broader horizons in a way that connects back to what you value in your life and career. More free, knowing that moments of balance and nourishment can be part of everyday life and career evolution. And how you don’t have to fall into mainstream expectations of what you should be doing in your life and career. The moment you get out of that bubble, the bubble that you’ve been in for so long, you soon recognise how it’s someone else's nonsense. Dancing to someone else’s beat was never gonna work - and I hope that by the end of The Seasonal Guide, especially in the Playful Rising season, you can now see that with more clarity, trust and inner wisdom for which you have cultivated for yourself. We need that in the world, more than ever, to cut through the noise and chaos.
Oh Yeah will always be here to anchor yourself back to balance as and when you need to. I've returned to these exercises and tools time and time again over the last couple of decades. So continue to use The Seasonal Guide as your long-term companion, where The Oh Yeah Crew and our growing community of friends and events will allow you to remind yourself of your own journey at each and every turn.
Here's to taking yourself forward to your very own Oh Yeah moment, whenever you need to see the light again.
Sending you good energy, always.
Kat x
