Day. Night. Tides. Phases of the moon. Ever occurring seasons–spring; summer; fall, winter…

Early adulthood and exploration; establishment and settling down; mid-life transition; maturity; late adult transition; late adulthood…

Single; married; married without children; married with children; children helping out/learning the family business; launching young adults; young adults as managers in the business; take over of next generation leadership; grand-parenting; next professional phase (your next act), retirement…

Solo entrepreneurship; owner-managed firm; family partnership; sibling partnership; cousins’ consortium; family collaboration…

Start-up business; survival; growth; maturity; regeneration or decline…

We can’t avoid life’s cycles, and its easier on us and those around us when we embrace them and swim with the flow of inevitable and inescapable change.