What big or small goal have you achieved recently – and how did you celebrate your success?
Because celebrating your personal and/or professional successes provides a sense of accomplishment, boosts your self-esteem, builds confidence and motivates you to keep taking the tiny steps forwards towards your goals. It’s why in lifecoaching we always start a session discussing the wins; discussing what went well; marking the milestones along the path to success.
It's especially important to celebrate your successes if you work on your own or from home. Because if you don't have colleagues to share your victories with, it's easy to overlook them or downplay their significance. And that needs to be avoided at all cost. Acknowledging your achievements, no matter how small they may seem, reinforces the behaviours that led to those achievements and encourages you to keep striving for more. It's a way of saying to yourself, "I did it once; I can do it again."
Mark Twain believed that "to get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." So make sure you celebrate your successes with friends, family, work colleagues, followers on social media or yourself if no-one else is around. Jump up and down in your office or kitchen and whoop with joy; put on your favourite mood boosting song and dance around the room; raise your cup of coffee or tea and say 'well done me' out loud; etc. Because doing so reminds you that your accomplishments are meaningful and worth recognizing. And it makes you feel good!
So as I sit here with my cup of coffee, I’m celebrating three personal and professional successes:
1. I’ve just made the final tweaks to my new website. As I’m not a website designer it took over a month to do it on Wix. But it’s done and I really like it: www.thelifecoachforyou.com
2. I’ve almost finished the business accounts I started yesterday.
3. I’m 59 (!) today and I’m celebrating the fact that my business is growing, I’ve got a great work/life balance and I’m fitter, slimmer (I've reached my target weight) and happier today than I was in my late 20s. I don’t know if this stage of my life is called my midlife or my early retirement life. What I do know is that I’m living my best life. So coffee cheers to that!
What are you celebrating today? What have you achieved that has made you feel happy? Or, in the words of Heather Small, what have you done today (or recently) to make you feel proud?
Whatever it is, here's to you. Congratulations!
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