Celebrating Wins
This week, I sold out a workshop for the first time ever!
Selling out the workshop didn’t register for me as a win right away.
I was in such admin-mode that I wanted to send emails and check on signups for other workshops happening this week and next. I was also in some pretty heavy grief and sadness over some recent family news and celebrating this milestone as something joyful didn’t come naturally to me in the moment.
My sister-in-law bought the 12th and final ticket to my Long Beach Journaling Workshop at Dainty Disco, which will also be my first workshop in California.
I’m grateful for my friends at home who asked me each time I visited when I would be hosting a workshop in LA. Knowing there was enthusiasm, support, and interest fueled my outreach to various stationery, coffee, and book shops from San Diego to Santa Barbara.
So to have two locations express interest and to have the one paid offering sell out are both huge wins that I wanted to take the time to celebrate and acknowledge not just privately, but publicly also.
So, next came the LinkedIn post, threads post, whats app and text messages with friends and communities.
Something that would have mortified me to even think about previously, I was now shamelessly exclaiming across the interwebs. I’m realizing it sort of comes with the territory of being an entrepreneur.
If you want folks to celebrate your accomplishments or milestones with you, if you want recognition and awareness, you have to be your own publicist too.
What followed was an internet love fest.
Affirmations, congratulations, collaborations.
I’ve learned there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be seen and to celebrate your wins publicly.
Celebrating wins, publicly or privately, is so important. In the chaotic world we all live in, pausing to acknowledge joy is a method of survival. Dopamine for the brain, yes, and motivation to keep going. Resilience. Permission. Connection.
And like any mindset shift, it takes practice. Consistently acknowledging our wins helps us see milestones and accomplishments that may have gone unnoticed before. Increased awareness and appreciation not just for all we’re doing, but all that we already are.
When was the last time you celebrated a win?
When was the last time you felt celebrated?
When was the last time you celebrated someone else?
Always here to encourage celebration - of ourselves, our milestones, our joy, our existence, our survival, our collective being and connection. xx