Are you celebrating your accomplishments?

Mar 18, 2021 | Being

Co workers celebrating with high fives

When I was working in IT, sometimes new problems would take me hours to solve.

I was so pumped when I finally figured it out it was like an adrenaline rush.

Then, over time, similar problems no longer took me that long. Makes sense, right?

As we gain more experience and knowledge, certain things that used to be difficult no longer are. We can get them done faster.

What happens, though, is that the nature of how we feel about accomplishing ‘said’ thing changes.

We tend to celebrate what takes us a long time or what made us work really hard or what really challenged us and we toss everything else we do to the side in the ‘Yeah, no big deal’ pile.

Society has taught us that unless you work really hard for something it’s not worth celebrating.

Society has also taught us that it’s wrong to celebrate our accomplishments because it’s considered egotistical.

Neither is true or helpful.

Just because something comes easy now doesn’t mean it always did or that it’s less deserving of being considered an accomplishment. We still did ‘it’, didn’t we?

And just because we say, “Hey, guess what, I did this really cool thing,” doesn’t mean we are rubbing our win in someone else’s face like “Bet you can’t beat that.”

We must celebrate our accomplishments because if we don’t, who will? If we don’t see ourselves as confident and capable, who will?

Celebrating our accomplishments builds confidence and trust in ourselves, and both are key to making more money and greater impact.

Here’s the 3-2-1 on this aspect of the attitude of accomplishment.

3 TRUTHS

  1. There is no time requirement – how long it takes to complete any given thing – for something to be considered an accomplishment and worthy of celebrating.
  2. When we celebrate our accomplishments two things happen simultaneously. Our positivity feeds our confidence and it fuels our physical self, giving us more positive energy which makes us happier and healthier. Confident people with positive energy draw more money to them.
  3. The more we celebrate our accomplishments, the more we see ourselves and what we are capable of and the more others do, too. If we can’t cheer ourselves on, why should anyone else?

2 ACTIONS

  1. Publicly express a recent win and watch the celebration from others unfold. Not everyone will see it as egotistical. Plenty will want to celebrate with you.
  2. Find a way to celebrate yourself every single day.

1 QUESTION

  1. What have I accomplished today and how will I celebrate?

The best place to grab your baseline on where you’re at with your attitudes on money is to go retake the 10 Attitudes of Money assessment. Then hop into my free Facebook group.

To your impact and legacy,