Celebrating Success

By Jeffrey Thomson

In today's world we get so caught up in our day to day activities and the routines of life we have a tendency to overlook all the success we have each day. We tend to view success as only a few significant events in our life such as graduating from college, getting married, our first job, our first child, our first big promotion. What happens when we achieve these goals? Or even worse what happens if we don't achieve any or some of these events? Does this mean we aren't successful or we are done being successful? All too often it does. The good news is this does not need to be the case and the reality is we experience success every day of our lives we just forget to celebrate this success. Because many of our day to day successes aren't marked with a big celebration they seem to loose their value. We do a disservice to these events and ourselves by allowing this happen. We also create feelings of failure and lack of success by not truly recognizing all that we do each day that helps to make us happy and successful. We also risk loosing momentum towards larger success by giving up on all the little steps necessary by not putting value on them.

When we put value and recognize the little progress we make each day towards our larger goal we stay more motivated and on track to ensure we achieve our fullest potential. If you want to run a marathon you don't just go out that day and run 26 miles. If you want to be a tremendous success in business you don't just wake up one morning and are running a $500 million company. Whatever you are looking to achieve in life the steps along the way and the overall mindset of success are critical. We need to celebrate each days success and build on it for the next day and begin to create a true mindset of success. We need to start thinking of ourselves as successful and then live into that reality. We do create our own reality and by thinking we are a success or thinking we are not that is exactly what we are.

I know all of this sounds great on paper and seems easy to do but how do we implement it into our lives and how do we make both the celebration and the act itself a habit thus ensuring greater success? The good news is that is the easy part we just need to be diligent in our efforts. The easiest way to start is to spend a few moments at the end of each day and write down 3-5 successes you had that day. You may be saying to yourself I don't have that many successes each day. First that is probably not true, you just aren't recognizing everything as a success. Second the number doesn't really matter the habit of spending some time each day and recognizing even a few events that were a success each day will build and before you know it you will have more. The number will also grow because you know at the end of each day you will be holding yourself accountable for your accomplishments. In addition you can start small and watch the list grow and expand in depth. Let me give a few examples that may help you get started: I got of the house by 7:30 am to be at the office on time, I committed to being at my sons/daughters baseball game and I made it, I ran 3 miles today, I did my morning walk, I finished the report for work, I followed up with my large account today, I didn't eat that donut that was in the coffee break room in the office. As you can see you can use many different aspects of your life to gauge your little daily successes. You can include work, family, personal, health, business, spiritual whatever you feel you wanted to achieve in a given day and were successful in accomplishing that is a success.

Success is a habit and by realizing just how successful we are each day in our lives we realize just how successful we are as individuals and start forming that habit. Good luck each day and congratulations on your success.

Bio: Jeffrey Thomson is a mentor and business coach with LifePath Unlimited and building a successful online business. I am student of personal development and truly believe that our inner world creates our outer world and by building and maintaining a positive mindset we can create our own level of success.

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