If I asked you how you would like to celebrate your victories in life, would you have an answer? 🤷50
Or would you say ‘Don’t know. I’ve never thought about it. “?
We are taught to celebrate the large milestones in life. The birthdays, vacations and anniversaries. The scoops and the lasting.
But the intervening, daily victories, successes and progress? Those are not the parties that we see very often.
And if we do that, they can be seen as “too much” or “a little excessive”.
But what if celebrating the smaller, interim moments and experiences is actually the thing that makes life more fun?
So many of the women I talk to, feel they are Living on a Groundhog day.
They always do the same things – work, chores, parenthood, sleep, repeat.
What they want is actually experience their days instead of just coming through.
They want to get rid of the hamster wheel to do so much. 🛞
Well, celebrating is the wedge that prevents the hamster wheel.
Celebrate Forces you to pause, look around and see everything you are all Doing and creating in your life.
And for a minute, before you jump into the following, you can be present and feel proud.
Celebrating your victories can look all kinds of ways.
It doesn’t have to be anything else Doing. Such as planning a birthday party or making magic around the holidays can be in one gigantic task list (Psst … 📣 Search for an announcement on vacation planning next week!).
Celebrating your victories can be what you want.
The only criteria is that you recognize yourself for everything you are celebrating.
If you want some ideas, here are a few favorite and most common ways in which my customers and I celebrate our victories – big and small.
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Go out for dinner
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Outfit
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Treat yourself to something delicious
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Take the afternoon off
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Toast with champagne or a glass of wine
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Spend time with friends
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Book a service in a spa
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Buy a book, a piece of clothing, piece of jewelry to commemorate
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Have sex
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Enjoy a chic coffee all alone in a cafe
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Reflect by journaling
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Add your victory to a list that you can visit and read again
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Take a photo to remember it
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Tell someone – partner, friend, colleague, coach*
*The latter is probably the most impactful way to celebrate.
To possess your victory, say it out loud and witness to someone else is powerful.
Personally, I am practicing sharing my victories around the dining table with my children. I want to create a celebration culture and when the victory is something professional, it gives them a glimpse into what my work actually is and how much it means to me.
So, even if another day feels today, I promise you that there is something to celebrate. Celebrate washing your face before bed or get some steps or handle that heavy conversation in a way you are proud.
The more you celebrate everything you do, create, create – the more comfortable celebration will feel and the more you will see that there is so much worthwhile to celebrate and recognize.