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2023 popped off like my friends refer to those last children. The one that won’t sit down, don’t listen and always getting into something… Yup, that’s the best way to describe the past 32 days. A rollercoaster of emotions, STOP, COME HERE, SIT DOWN lol but we survived!! Congratulations, you have officially been initiated into the New Year!!! :)
Here we are, still doing hard things well, taking all the GOOD right along with the BAD showing up, supporting, smiling, giving GRACE, and getting it ALL done per usual. To that I say Congratulations to YOU and to ME!!!
That’s where I plan to live for the remainder of 2023 ……In the position to celebrate others and to be celebrated!! Not because I need the extra affirmation but honestly so I can find JOY in the small life victories and not just the BIG ones. I mean admit it ....LIFE be LIF'N.
Last week, I made a promise to myself to start ending each night with “Congratulations” to celebrate the small wins of the day. In the beginning it was a joke, and I would laugh through it and by the third night or so it became noticeably clear to me that this new habit was going to be helpful in multiple ways.
1. Congratulations, prompts one to embrace the spirit of a winner rather than one that has been defeated. No matter what the day came with your focus shifts to the wins and what went well for the day.
2. Congratulations over time will teach you to release the awkwardness that comes with other people celebrating you in the future. You will be so familiar with hearing these words that you will begin to receive your flowers with ease. You put in the work, you sacrificed, you deserve it, and you earned it! Don’t get it twisted you can be humble and be celebrated at the same time.
I personally had to learn #2 myself because I would often downplay my personal and professional wins, hell my own awesomeness in the name of humility. When people would say Congratulations or Good Job, I would meet them with no big deal at all and a quiet thank you because it made me oddly uncomfortable. If I am going to get comfortable with anything at all in 2023 it is going to be hearing these words and you should too!!
No matter where you are on your journey there is something to be celebrated daily and you don’t have to wait for a special occasion to do it!! Get the cake, play the song, SAY the words but whatever you do CELEBRATE YOU!! YOU are worth it, and YOU Survived IT that’s something to celebrate all by itself.
Nobody really knows what it takes and how hard you work but YOU.
Yeah they see the pretty output , the cute pic , the dope project , program, business or event but people don’t see the tears the conquering fears , the near death experiences , the challenges that come with living the life YOU have been given so please give yourself permission and utter the words at the close of today or even after you read this and tell yourself “ CONGRATULATIONS” because baby you did it ……and there is more where that came from!!! STAY TUNED …
Be encouraged today!!
Congrats, RR - xoxo
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