Celebrate YOU

I know what it's like to feel invisible, to think it's too late to become what you've always wanted to be. You feel like it's too late to have more life. I felt that way too. But when I lost my brother to cancer, he made me realize I have way more life to live.

And I discovered the choice was mine to live it or not. I know you want to become confident and empowered, and you deserve to step into that life you are yearning for. There is more greatness to come in your life. And I know you can feel it. I've made a choice to live my big life. Now it is your turn, to be empowered, and step into the life that has always been yours. It's time for you to step off the sidelines and into your own life, the one you were created to live, it's easier than you think.

So let's get started. Practicing gratitude can and will change your life.

Gratitude is the quality of being thankful readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. And the benefits of simply being thankful are nearly endless. Those who take the time to notice and reflect upon things they are thankful for experience powerful, positive emotions, they feel more alive and energetic, they're more compassionate and kind, they sleep better, and they develop stronger immune systems.

And the best part is, it's not just gratitude for those big things in your life, but also and especially for those little things. Taking the time to notice and be grateful for things throughout your day will increase your well being and satisfaction throughout your entire life. And it's why I wrote my 30 days of gratitude journal. You can grab your copy on Amazon now.

A few weeks ago, I attended a mastermind retreat in Scottsdale, Arizona. And one of the things that we were we were challenged to do was to write down all the things that we had done in 2020 that we had yet to celebrate ourselves for. And as I got to writing, I realized that I hadn't celebrated anything. And I had done a lot of things in 2020. I had started a podcast, I had written a book, I had launched an online program and a group coaching program. There were so many things on that list and things that were even outside of work personal things that I had that I had done in 2020. recovering from major surgery, being able to use my wrist again, being able to do a push up again, after having a piece of bone cut out of my arm in February. Not one thing had I taken the time to celebrate. And as I looked at that list, I realized that the reason I never took the time to celebrate was because in my mind, I hadn't yet done enough. I was not yet enough. It wasn't yet enough. It wasn't big enough. It wasn't celebration worthy. It wasn't anything that we should be celebrating. I competed in the Toastmasters World Championship of speaking contest and made it to the semi finals my first year of being in Toastmasters. And every time that I advanced another level. I thought we should celebrate this. But then I would say no. If you make it to the finals, we'll celebrate

So we never celebrated, because I never thought it was good enough to celebrate. I think we all do that. I think we all think things are too small to celebrate, or they're not enough to celebrate, or we don't deserve the celebration. And it isn't true. We need to take that time to celebrate us before we move on to the next thing. Why don't we give ourselves time to breathe and celebrate before we launch into the next project? Why aren't we doing that on a daily basis? Why don't we schedule in time between things we're working on to celebrate that our we worked on something, a book maybe? Or we answered all our messages, or we cleaned out our email file or all. We cleaned out the pictures on our cell phone? We all need to celebrate that right? How many 1000s of pictures do you have on your phone, I know that the amount of pictures I have on my phone is quite embarrassing, and most of them, I don't need any more, nor do I want. So I have decided I'm going to clean them out. And then before I move on to my next task, I'm going to take time to celebrate that. I cleaned out my emails this year, I cleaned out 12,000 emails, you better believe I celebrated that. Because I am learning that those celebrations.

Those celebrations mean so much. Those celebrations are things we must be giving to ourselves. Because here's what happens when we take the time to celebrate ourselves. We're telling ourselves, we're giving ourselves permission to believe and to know, and to embrace that we are enough. We deserve to be celebrated. You deserve to be celebrated. And if no one wants to celebrate you, you celebrate you daggone it, you celebrate you then go grab a cup of coffee, or take some time to dance, do something to celebrate that you are amazing. Everything that you do deserves a celebration. You're telling yourself you're enough, you are already enough, and you don't need the next thing. The next big thing, the next little thing, you don't need the next thing to prove that you are already enough. You are already amazing. You're already fabulous. You deserve the celebration.

When you celebrate you, you are reminding yourself to enjoy the journey. And the journey is the important stuff. It's not the destination. It's the way that you're getting to that destination. That journey is is where all the magic happens. Because guess what, when you get to your destination, there's yet another destination and then yet another destination. And if you're not celebrating your steps along the journey, you are missing the magical moments of your life. You're missing the leaves changing, you're missing the grass growing, you are missing the laugh that you hear of a loved one, you're missing the funny things that your dog does, or your child does. Or you are missing. You're missing picking up a book and just taking some time to read because that's what you love to do. Whatever it is that you love to do when you celebrate. You are giving yourself permission to enjoy the journey. We have big goals. We have awesome, amazing goals. Focus on the goal. But focus more on your journey. Look at the goal every once in a while know that's where you're heading. But also know that today, today is really really amazing. And you might not step into your big, audacious goal today, but you're taking a step today.

Enjoy the journey, celebrate yourself. Celebrating yourself along the way also reminds us to be grateful. We can be grateful for these steps along the way. It increases our gratitude. If I am grateful that I have taken another step today. it awakens that emotion of gratitude, thereby invoking greater emotions of well being celebrating ourselves increases our ability to be grateful.

It increased that's a really cool side effect to celebrating you, celebrate you. Another really cool side effect is that it increases your self confidence. You see when you go from one thing to another to the next, without ever taking time to celebrate what you've done, you have not given yourself any credit for what an amazing badass you are and you are. So take the time to celebrate you watch your self confidence explode. You deserve this. You deserve to enjoy your journey. You deserve to be more grateful. You deserve to have your confidence increased and simply taking the time to celebrate you will do this. Grab some friends and celebrate or take some quiet time and celebrate by yourself. Get up and dance. What is it that you love to do do that? do that to celebrate you, you deserve this. And more than this more than that you need this. You are enough.

You deserve the celebration. I love you. I am your biggest fan. Now go out there and celebrate the most amazing person in the world. You your journal prompt 10 things that I have not yet celebrated myself for are and the way that I will celebrate them is 10 things I have not celebrated about myself are and the way that I will celebrate them is share them. tag me. I can't wait to hear how you are celebrating you.