Let’s Celebrate!

We spent all of November in a Gratitude practice.

Gratitude is a state of being.

So now, in December, as we continue being grateful, now we can step into celebrating what we are grateful for. Celebration is the DOING of gratitude. Celebration often stems from being grateful for something and it is the doing, the act of celebrating something that we are grateful for. I believe that there is something to celebrate every day. Even on the difficult days, find something that is worth celebrating. It is in the tough times, that again, like gratitude, the celebration muscle is worth building.

What if at dinner each night with our family, partner or ourselves, we sat down to dinner with something from the day that we can celebrate, big or small. This can look a lot like our gratitude challenge but there’s a shift in celebrating vs. something or someone we are grateful for… it’s acknowledging it and/or doing something to celebrate it. So many things that we are grateful for are worth celebrating. We all love celebrating!

🎉It could be a B on a test that we put lots of effort into.

🎉Or, the clean bill of health from a doctors visit.

🎉Or, the fact that we pushed past a fear.

🎉Or we met a new friend.

🎉Or we kept our word to ourselves in a lifestyle behavior.

🎉Or we had an excellent team meeting.

🎉Or we have the money to buy everyone we’d like a Christmas present.

🎉Or we took a deep breath and choose kindness in a difficult conversation.

Just to name a few.

Every day if we look closely at our day, there is ALWAYS something to celebrate. And what a difference in tone and energy is makes when we choose to focus on the parts of life that are worth celebrating.

And we don’t always need to use alcohol to celebrate. We can do a toast with water!

Celebration might look like a:

🎉 Toast

🎉 Mini dance party with your favorite song

🎉 Focused conversation

🎉 An acknowledgment

🎉 A routine of documenting it in a celebration jar or journal

🎉 A Celebration is FUN!

Or any other celebratory action!

This does not mean to ignore the difficult parts of life, we need to intentionally dive in to those places (for another blog at another time) but we can’t let them consume us.

Celebration is a doing practice!

Celebration is the act of celebrating what we are grateful for.

I’d love to hear the impact implementing a celebration practice into your life or your month of December has on you, your family and your team! 🎉🎉