[This is an updated re-run of Weekly Challenge # 63. I need to hear it again. How about you?]
Set aside special time and effort to celebrate your specific triumphs, milestones and and successes from the past year. You will then be more likely to continue to build a better you (and a better world) next year too.
As a kind of follow-up to Challenge #68: REMEMBER HOW FAR YOU'VE COME, this challenge is important because...
Even though there are lots of parties and social events and "celebrations this time of year," WE SPEND VERY LITTLE TIME REMEMBERING AND HONORING WHAT WE'VE SPECIFICALLY DONE OVER THE PAST YEAR.
And the opportunity to really celebrate the past year can get lost amidst all the other traditional year-end festivities.
Did you...graduate, meet someone special, have a baby, complete a major project, start a new job, end a piece of work, move your home or family, get promoted, write a book, make a profit, make a friend, help a little one learn to walk, receive an award, take a journey, lower your cholesterol, organize your closet, make a well-recieved presentation, get in shape, build a website, renovate a part of your house, landscape your yard, simplify your life, get married, etc. etc. etc.
Then, like most of us, you have a string of little and big things to celebrate.
So figure out a way to do that before year's end.
Five Quick and Easy Ways to Celebrate What You've Done and Become Over The Past Year:
1. Have a celebration dinner with your significant other or close friend. Have the focus be reflection on and appreciation of the past year.
2. Buy yourself a present. How about something symbolic of what you have done or how you are being?
3. Pour yourself a glass of wine or cup of coffee. Sit down, and make a list of your successes from the past year in your journal. Drink a
toast to yourself after reading the list.
4. Light a candle. When friends ask about the lit candle, take the opportunity to explain you're honoring the past year.
5. Do something really fun (for you)...and explain to the other participants, "it's because some great things have happened over this
past year."
Bottom Line: When you celebrate what you have, you'll give more...and more will be coming to you. Here's to 2008.
BE more,
Tom
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POWER QUESTIONS:
1. What, about the last year would I like to celebrate?
2. What would be a really cool way to honor the past year's accomplishments?
3. When is the best time to celebrate between now and the end of the year?
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