As we find ourselves in the holiday season of the year, many of us experience the first snowfalls, think about the upcoming winter, and share the joys of home and hearth with those we love. For me, it’s also the time of year when my ski legs are really beginning to accelerate my own learning, the snow is getting better all the time, I’m reconnecting with friends I see mostly during ski season, and I’m finalizing plans for the various extended trips that I’ll take this year.

What about you?

Today I am deep in the middle of my coaching and consulting life, visiting a client in a midwestern town. But, after the storm earlier this month, there is a lot of snow on the ground, and I feel the tug of the slopes even in the midst of my conversations here. We talk about how the snow changes character over time as it slowly melts, and I have helped a friend consider the approaches necessary to ski in snow that has been tempered by 50 degree temperatures.

I’ve also been writing. You see, I’m the author of the upcoming DreamTime Publishing book “Open Your Heart With Skiing”. This book will be a great compliment to Lisa Marie Mercer’s “Open Your Heart With Winter Fitness,” and will provide an opportunity for you to consider whether skiing is a metaphor for life or life is a metaphor for skiing. Or, perhaps both simultaneously. So right now I am putting my thoughts to paper. Well, actually, to keyboard and screen. Thinking about how skiing wraps itself around skiers. Considering the life lessons that can come from it. Reflecting on the wisdom that I have gleaned from those who have coached and mentored me.

How about you? What are you doing this holiday season? Have you skied yet? When will you?

Let’s go!