Do You Celebrate Your Successes After 60? If Not, it's Time To Reconsider!
How much time do you spend lamenting steps taken – or not taken – as you navigate life in the decades past 60? On the other end of the spectrum, how much time do you spend celebrating your successes?
Have you ever set on a path to accomplish something (big or small), put in enormous time and energy, but then forgotten to take the time to reflect and celebrate once you’ve reached your goal?
Goal Setting
Research shows that goal-setting is extremely important to fulfilling dreams and also describes the need to set small achievable goals leading up to the BIG GOAL.
And here’s the most often-missed step – it’s equally important to acknowledge and celebrate your successes in order to stay on track! Failure to acknowledge meeting small goals makes it more difficult to continue moving forward towards large goals.
The Quilly Awards
I just returned from a trip to Los Angeles to accept a Quilly Award for becoming a best-selling author for my latest book, Success Formula – Secrets for Health, Wealth, and Success, written with a collection of authors including Jack Canfield (of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series).
It was an amazing event at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel in downtown Hollywood, CA; complete with a formal awards ceremony and red-carpet interview.
I met some wonderful people working in the field of health and success coaching, and as authors we were treated like stars for those several hours in the spotlight. I’ve got to say – that was fun! But here’s the deal – I almost didn’t go.
Too Busy
When I got word several months ago that the Success Formula hit best-seller status, and there will be an award ceremony, I was excited, but I was really busy and just sort of let the excitement fizzle out.
Then I got word that my chapter, Healthy Aging Success or Sabotage, won the publisher’s Editor’s Choice Award. Again, I was very happy and grateful – but too busy to stop and really celebrate and let it sink in. Few of my friends even knew about it.
I didn’t post any of this on Facebook and didn’t even take time to share it with the wonderful community of supportive women at Sixty and Me! So, if you’re curious, here’s a free chapter download!