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Key Takeaways The springtime of your career encompasses those early years when you’re busy planting the seeds of new ideas and dreaming of the future. It’s all about potential.
The summer of your career is when you start making investments, cultivating the seeds you planted years ago, then carefully pruning and protecting your business ideas so they can grow.
Autumn is harvesting season — you’re reaping what you’ve sown. And winter is a time for taking stock of what you have and preparing for the future.
We don’t get to be young forever, but that’s actually a good thing. Like Pete Seeger of The Byrds sang back in 1962:
“To everything there is a season
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
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