When we reach goals and sub-goals on the way to our ‘dream life’, we often get so used to incorporating these new rituals and habits into our regime that we forget to recognise our efforts and congratulate ourselves. This step is really vital in training your brain to recognise your own progress and continue to strive towards the next step. If you do not acknowledge the passing of milestones and new ground broken, you may have feelings of frustration and stagnation, even though you are making progress. If you have an accountability partner, it is a great opportunity to share your achievements with them and celebrate them in a beneficial and helpful way. We always recommend keeping a journal for our clients so that we can be conscious about our milestones and how much things have changed in our lives since we began implementing the programs that we provide. We have found the success rate much higher with those that consciously document progress in comparison to those who don’t. This can also be linked in to the practice of ‘gratitude’, where we look at our lives daily (at least) and list the things that we are grateful for, write them down or verbalise them. Through this practice, we are again reprogramming our brain to look around us for the positive things in life, rather than dwelling on the negative. These small steps do wonders for our own personal progress and that of our clients. Why not try it?
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