Do you celebrate the small successes in your life?
What I mean is, do you make time to appreciate the things that you achieve, or do you solely focus on what is not yet complete?
For many years I simply couldn’t appreciate what I had. I couldn’t appreciate what I was. I would always be looking for things to be better.
I would achieve things, but rather than focus on what I had done, I’d focus on what I hadn’t done yet.
I’d compare myself to other people and other situations and think, I’m not quite where I wanna be, or even I’m nowhere near where I wanna be.
I was unable to recognise how far I’d come on on my journey.
I always ignored the successes that I already had.
Now I take a different approach to life and try to focus on appreciating things every single day.
I make time to celebrate the small wins in my life, and central to this is keeping a gratitude journal.
Every night before I go to bed, I journal about things that happened in my day that day and how I’m feeling about them. One of my rules is that I can’t write the same stuff as the day before, because I actually want to feel those emotions. I want to feel the emotions of success and of gratitude for the things that are in my life.
I always make a conscious effort to do this because it’s made a huge difference for me and I’ve seen the impact it’s had on my life.
If you’re finding that maybe you have a few days where you’re not feeling so great at the end of them, maybe it’s something you should try to.
