Life is pretty good and sometimes we get the opportunity to reflect during some quiet time. This is such a moment for me right now. Here’s something I’ve been reflecting on:
Most of us don’t give ourselves enough credit. While we may not be living the exact life that we want to be living, we’re taking active steps each and every day – you should be celebrating that, not simply thinking that there is more that you could be doing. For right now, you need to begin to take notice of your accomplishments – thus spurning yourself on and providing all the motivation you’ll ever need.
Little Things Add Up to Big Dreams
What you need to realize is that everything you do every day is adding up to bigger successes for yourself. For example, when you are trying to lose weight, each time you choose water instead of softdrink is saving you over one hundred calories. While this doesn’t seem like a big deal, if you choose water over soda just once a day, you will lose 5 kilos during the course of a year.
Take out a piece of paper or set aside some time to congratulate yourself for the little choices you’ve made today that are pushing you toward your dream. This will help you notice more and more things you could be doing, thus driving your success and helping you continue on.
When the Past Does Matter
While you want to forget the mistakes you made in the past, you do want to remember the things you’ve done well before now. It’s not conceited to be proud of yourself; in fact, you need to start taking more notice of yourself right now. By feeling good about the things you’ve already done, dreams you’ve already achieved, you can begin to feel more confident that yes, you can have more and do more in your life.
Whether you write down your successes or you simply take a few minutes each day to think about things you’ve done well, you are going to create a more positive mindset as well as allow yourself to be pumped up for the next day’s challenges – whatever they might be.
Have a most outstanding day
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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I agree it is good to look back from time to time and recognise the achievements that have been made already, rather than those which are yet to come. Too often society seems to focus on the negatives – the bad stuff going on and the good things we don’t have. It is easy to get caught up in that mindset.
Taking the time to reflect on the latter certainly does help to keep oneself grounded. It also encourages a mindset of gratitude, the benefits of which you mentioned in an earlier post. And importantly, focusing on the positive stuff in life keeps the happiness meter up and drives us on to bigger and better things.
Thinking back, some of my hardest challenges are probably from a time when I was so young that I can‘t remember. Like learning to talk, and starting to walk. Man that must have been really tough at the time, but now I take it for granted. I am sure that if I had to learn to walk or talk all over again I would find it a pretty frustrating process to go through. Reflecting on this certainly makes my current challenges seem quite a bit easier.
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You’re right. I have done a lot right. But I often slip into a state of it’s not enough. I should spend more time reflecting on my achievements.
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Hi Sean,
I love this. It’s about creating that winning feeling. By celebrating each small success we help build some momentum to help propel us towards our larger goals.
I think by making a list of things that you have been successful at in the past really helps. A lot of us tend to minimize the amount of success that we have experienced. We spend so much time focusing on what we’ve failed at that we forget to acknowledge what we have been successful with. It’s the successes we need to focus on so that we can create more of them.
So true Sean
Just like we celebrate our little successes in the forum and can see the progress we are making
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