Why Spring Is the Perfect Time to Realign Your Goals and Growth
If spring were a day of the week, she’d be a Sunday. If your social media algorithms are anything like mine you may see a lot of “Sunday Reset” type videos. This is the day you do your grocery shopping and meal prepping, take a morning yoga class or pilates class, tidy up your bedroom for the new week (clean sheets!), take your everything shower, and maybe pen in your planner with some goals and tasks for the upcoming week.
Just as Sunday has become the perfect day to reset for everything a new week holds, spring offers the same opportunity on a larger scale, a seasonal reset that invites us to revisit our goals, routines, spaces and priorities.
More hours in the day
For starters, Daylight Savings Time means we have one more hour of daylight in the evenings. More daylight hours along with warmer temperatures means more energy and activity. With it spring brings a natural increase in motivation and energy. For this reason, March is often considered a better time to set or reset goals than January. You have two months of data to see what habits or goals can actually fit into your daily life. While there may not actually be more hours in the day, longer daylight hours can be just the motivation you need to start a new class or hobby, or dedicate some extra time to that business or new community you're nurturing or growing.
Taking physical inventory of your physical and digital space
If you find yourself setting goals to get in extra steps, read a little more each day, or cook healthier meals at home you may be in need of a designated space to follow through. That might mean setting up a spot in your living room to do daily stretches and meditations, clearing off the kitchen counter to make meal prep easier or setting up a reading nook.
The same principle applies to your digital environment. The apps you keep on your phone, the accounts you follow, and the notifications you allow can either support your goals or quietly distract you from them. Delete any apps you haven’t used recently, set up “DND” mode for evenings and weekends so you can focus on your goals, unsubscribe from company emails you no longer want to receive and try clearing out your camera roll (all those screenshots you’ll never end up revisiting). Decluttering your digital spaces will help you regain some mental space and capacity back.
Revisit goals with real data
By March, you’ve lived through the realities of the year for a couple of months. Whether that includes work schedules, school routines, or family obligations, many unexpected curveballs have made themselves known. Spring gives you the chance to adjust goals, but with real-life context. Maybe your original goal was to work out five days a week, but you’ve learned that three weekly sessions are more realistic. Maybe instead of reading 52 books this year you’ll read 20. If the goal is reading more, then it's still a goal you can meet more attainably. The same goes with physical exercise or any other goal, it’s okay to make adjustments.
As you revisit goals you set back in January this is the ideal time to ask yourself, “how can I make this goal more attainable?”
Unlike the manic and pressure-filled goal setting that starts in January, spring offers a gentler invitation to begin again. The best part is that realigning your goals doesn’t require a total life overhaul. Change can start with small but intentional shifts. Spring is the reminder we all need that we’re allowed to begin again as many times as we need.
Written by Hannah Lacy
Bio: Hannah Lacy is a digital content strategist with over seven years of experience in marketing and social media, and more than a decade of experience as a freelance writer contributing to various publications. A working mother of two school-aged children, she writes at the intersection of ambition and parenthood, with a passion for storytelling, advocating for working moms, and partnering with mission-driven brands and organisations.
Connect with her on LinkedIn or at hannahlacymedia@gmail.com.
