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3.32 AFFIRM, ACKNOWLEDGE,
COMPLIMENT, CELEBRATE
Celebrate Your Life!
I am a huge task master at times. And I have come to realize with all of
my accomplishments that I actually celebrate or acknowledge any of
them very little. And I've noticed with my clients, family and friends,
the same is true for them. Life is not just about accomplishment, it's
about acknowledgement, affirmation, compliments and celebration. It's
about pausing for a moment to acknowledge how far you've come, to
affirm that you are better today than yesterday, and to celebrate that
you are still here in this very present moment alive and ready to
acknowledge, affirm and celebrate again.
We shouldn’t wait all year just to celebrate our life on occasion of our
birthday. Instead we should fin dor create moments to acknowledge,
affirm, compliment and celebrate every single day of our life.
I'm not going to wait until next year to celebrate something so beautiful
and precious, it needs no occasion to be acknowledged. Every day we
wake up is a gift. One of my favorie quotes is:
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today is a gift, that's
why they call it the present."
I am going to live my life in the present. I am going to acknowlege all
that I've gained and lossed and be grateful for the opportunity and the
experience. I am going to affirm that I am better today than yesterday,
and live each day as my best self. And, most importantly, I am going to
celebrate the wins, the gifts, the people, the pleasures, the love, the
laughter and the tears, that I am blessed to experience each and every
day. Another one of my favorite quotes is:
"Sing like no one's listening; dance like no one's watching, love like
you've never been hurt; live like it's heaven on earth."

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