Celebrate your wins - No matter how small your “win,” giving yourself a pat on the back can help reinforce your commitment to your New Year goals.
“Wins are so deeply emotional,” Feldman says. Rewarding yourself with a new workout outfit or a pair of headphones, for example, can motivate you to keep working toward your big goal.
Experiences (like sleeping in an extra hour or watching a favorite movie) are also good rewards that don’t impact your budget.
“It’s so important to allow ourselves to be proud and feel accomplished each small win we have,” Houseman says. “Life can be overwhelming, so we can incorporate small changes that still make a big impact.”
1. It makes you feel happy.
Pausing to celebrate a small victory — for instance, clearing 20 emails from your inbox, even when there are 200 still to go — reminds you that you’re making progress, and progress feels good.
You don’t have to wait for “someday” when you — hopefully — achieve your goal(s) to be happy. Celebrate the small victories along the way and be happy now.
2. It gives you motivation to keep going. At any given moment, I can look around my life — as a father, business owner, coach, or speaker — and identify plenty of areas where I feel like I’m falling short. (Let’s face it, we’re never where we feel like we should be.)
If I allowed myself to dwell on all of my shortcomings — or how far I still have to go — I might just give up. This isn’t worth it… I’m not getting anywhere… What’s the use? (Ever feel that?)
When you give your attention to — and celebrate — the little victories, though, you’re essentially reminding yourself that “I am successful… I’m on the right path…”
That lifts your spirits and gives you the boost you need to keep going.
I’ve witnessed this while watching my 3-year-old build a tower with Legos. He doesn’t just wait until the tower is finished to say “yay!” I see a rather indescribable sense of accomplishment every time two blocks click together… and he keeps building.
3. It builds your confidence.
If you allow your attention to be consumed with obstacle after obstacle that you encounter, it’s very easy to feel defeated and powerless.
When you celebrate the little victories, though, you make another deposit in your “confidence bank” that says “I can do this!
Celebrate every little victory you can so your confidence bank has the “funds” needed to meet the challenges of the day.
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Book Recommendations
Get Out Of Your Own Way - Dave Hollis
Girl Wash Your Face - Rachel Hollis
Girl Stop Apologizing - Rachel Hollis
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire - Jen Hatmaker
It is ok, not to be ok - Megan Divine
Everything is Figureoutable - Marie Forleo
Lose Weight Like Crazy - Autumn Calabrese
Meditation Apps:
Calm
Aura
Headspace
Stop, Breathe & Think
Podcasts:
Rise Together Podcast
The Marie Forleo Podcast
tiny leaps, big changes
For the Love
Daily Boost
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
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