Celebrate your Successes

Let me introduce you to my best pal, Tomo, short for Tomodachi, which in Japanese means friend. We’ll return soon to Tomo’s involvement in our little success celebration this week.

This week's newsletter will be brief for two reasons.

First, today is the final day of a 4-day public holiday here in Thailand. Saturday was the Thai New Year (called Songkran), and I had a few pleasant distractions.

Second, instead of a few words of wisdom, I’ve created a 60-second video for you, “Celebrate your Successes.” The link is below.

The importance of small successes

This picks up from my newsletter two weeks ago, “Are Most Limits in Our Head?” Click HERE if you need to refresh your memory.?

Then I mentioned the importance of small successes, but what I failed to mention was the importance of celebrating those successes.

We all have a tendency to be over-critical of ourselves. We judge harshly and revisit the not-so-good aspects of our lives that we think we could have handled better.

The same is not true of our successes, whether big or small. Here, we might downplay what we’ve achieved – “It was nothing really.”

My point is that we should focus more on the good stuff and less on the negative. That’s not to say you should throw a big party every time you achieve something, and the video will explain this better.

Introducing Tomodachi

However, before you click, I'd like to give you a brief introduction to my pal Tomo so you can get the full picture.

Tomo was a stray dog who adopted me nearly nine years ago. Yes, she chose me. She was only a few months old and had obviously been mistreated, but she decided I was the one.

Since then, she rarely drifts far from my side, especially when we go on our walks. A little over four years ago, I added a pedometer to my phone, and a message this week was the source of our little celebration.

Astonishingly, our small steps have accumulated to:

• Nearly 4000 miles.
• Over 9 ? million steps.
• Resulting in a new pink collar plus a walk to Tomo’s favourite spot.

Click HERE for the video

Perhaps the moral of the story is twofold. Small steps can result in big changes, and the celebration can be very inexpensive and personal.

I would add that I chose the more traditional couple of beers in celebration, with Tomo watching the sunset. ?