I’ve been told over the years that I don’t celebrate my successes. It’s a fair assessment. I haven’t always taken the time to celebrate. Sometimes it doesn’t even register that I have a success to celebrate.
I think many people are the same way – you just move on to whatever the next thing is without pausing to see what went well and possibly make a few mental notes about how to replicate that success in other endeavors. I’ve been more intentional at looking for things to celebrate. Let me share some from last week with you.
Success #1:
I gave a presentation last Friday. On Thursday my laptop started misbehaving. Zoom wasn’t working, response time was v-e-r-y s-l-o-w. Friday morning it looked like it was fine again, but to be safe I emailed my presentation slides to the organizer. And I had my iPad ready to switch to, just in case. Low and behold, a few minutes into the meeting, my laptop started acting like it was possessed. I was able to switch to the iPad before the presentation needed to start, and the organizer was able to share my slides. It wasn’t perfect, but it was effective. I felt really good about how we made that work.
Success #2:
The ongoing saga of my home renovation! Not that I have any direct part in getting this finished, but I’m still going to celebrate the fact that more milestones were reached and at this point there should be only one more contractor visit needed. Then it will be just me and the painter getting things done to be able to have my house back in order again. This success is a precursor to that future one. There may be a glass of bubbly involved with that final celebration!
Success #3:
The week before last, my business coach held a two-day virtual planning retreat for the upcoming quarter. The end product was three top priorities, which were to be added into my calendar so that I would consistently make progress on those. The tasks were added, and I actually did do them all this past week (aka “week 1”). Even the one for doing some sort of exercise every day. Yay me!
Sometimes it’s about more than paying attention
As I mentioned in the beginning, failure to celebrate my successes is mostly due to not being intentional about it. But that’s not always why this happens. Sometimes, people are not comfortable with the idea of being proud of themselves or something they’ve done. They may even have a hard time appreciating anything about themselves. When that’s the case, there are frequently those pesky limiting beliefs in your subconscious making you feel like you’re not good enough.
If you think that might be true for you, I can help. Book a call or a session here and let’s get you celebrating those successes!
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