BEING YOUR BIGGEST FAN
If you are not your biggest fan, who will be? It is not selfish for you to be the best version of yourself and do the best you can with your capabilities. You can only show up fully in the world if you take care of yourself. Do you constantly focus on what is not working in your life? That you are not where you want to be?
Being your biggest fan
How often do you look at how far you have come? I had to remind myself of that the last few days. I had to stop, take a breath and take in what I have created for myself. Sometimes it does not look like you envisaged at the beginning, but I find that the outcome is often actually so much better. It is a good idea to enjoy the journey, just like going on a road trip, you don’t just stare straight ahead, you enjoy the view and perhaps stop along the way.
This morning, after I got my son off to school, I was lounging in bed for about 20 minutes, with a cup of coffee enjoying the view out my window. The cows were grazing in the paddock and it was so peaceful to watch. We all need to take time to live, but you have to celebrate yourself.
A lot of people have been raised to be humble and down play their accomplishments. But that does not mean that celebrating makes you better than others. We are all amazing and should pat ourselves on the back for our achievements. Our journeys are all different. Another reason we don’t celebrate ourselves is we are constantly looking for things we have not done well enough or that we haven’t achieved our goal yet. So we are thinking from a place of lack and fear.
Celebrate yourself
When you celebrate yourself, you are so much more attractive, your energy is positive and you are an inspiration to other people. They see what you did and think that they can do it too. There is a difference between this and bragging. Bragging comes from a place of lack, like you are feeling insecure. You will know the difference in the energy you carry.
When you are in the energy of celebrating yourself, it also flows to the things that you want, things you want to experience more of. You will see that when something good happens and things are going well, often other things happen that are equally good. When you are in that celebratory energy, you attract more of things you want in your life.
Increase your confidence
By patting yourself on the back, you are also increasing your confidence. Most people do a lot better if you praise them, so why not do it for yourself. Often when you are on a coaching call and you are presenting your problem, or what you think a problem is, the coach will often ask you, why that problem is a good thing for you.
It gets your brain going and thinking about solutions and also to come up with evidence of the positive things it is moving you towards. So if you feel you need a confidence boost, write out all the things that you have accomplished. And no, don’t diminish any of your accomplishments. You did those things, you learnt those things, you became that person.
All this reminds you of the path that you are on, the journey you are taking. Most people give up because they are so focused on the outcome and the lack of not being there yet. We always get told that there is no better than here. You take yourself along to there. If you are miserable now, you will probably be miserable there. Find the good in where you are right now, feel gratitude for this place and your journey will be so much more enjoyable.
Think about how your future self
- how does she think?
- how does she show up?
- what does she do?
And then implement those things into who you are now. Practice being her now. It is so much fun.
It all does not just have to be about accomplishments, you can also celebrate who you are as a person, are you kind, loving, honest, strong, disciplined? These are all qualities which are truly admirable.
Personal Transformation Coach
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