One summer a friend stayed with us for a couple months. While she was here, she made a list of 80 things she learned from her time in our home. One of the things was that it is okay to celebrate what you did well. It’s easy to get busy with projects and day-to-day tasks and not take the time to really celebrate what’s going right in our lives. When we don’t take the time to celebrate, we can easily get in an emotional rut and may even start feeling depressed.
I’m a big believer in rejoicing in a job well done, and I’ve got Biblical back-up for my belief. One of the first things that God teaches us in Genesis is to look for the good. After each day of creation God stopped to survey His handiwork and noted that “It was good.” After creating mankind in His image, on the sixth day before resting, “God saw every thing that He made, and behold it was very good.”
Sometimes people feel like it’s not appropriate to notice when they’ve done a good job – like that might make them proud, arrogant, or narcissistic. But God modeled for us that it is right and good that we look for the good at the end of the day and as we complete a project. It’s a good thing to rejoice in what went right.
As we take the time to rejoice in what went right, we gain a greater sense of accomplishment. That gives us the confidence to keep going and keep creating good things. We are made in God’s image. We are born creators – whether we think we’re creative or not. Cooking a meal, organizing a closet, rearranging a room, coming up with a new product or service for our businesses are all creative acts. Rejoice in your creations!
Celebrate Small Wins
I’ve recently started the habit of reflecting at the end of each day on three things that went well for the day. It’s a great way to wrap up the day. Celebrating even small wins alleviates feeling like our never-ending to-do-list will never get done.
There are a lot of good things that happen in our lives every day, but if we don’t take time to acknowledge them and see them, it’s as if they didn’t happen. Acknowledging what went well and thanking God for helping us with those things is gratitude. And gratitude brings more good things our way. God loves to bless the grateful! Also, as we proactively step into gratitude, we reduce stress and overwhelm and receive joy.
Give it a try. What three things went well for you today? No matter how small. I know you can give me three!
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About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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