Last week, I invited you to practice Claiming Wins deliberately.
Remember, a Win is an Intention met. You had hundreds of Wins since I posted that. Maybe thousands.
How many did you consciously acknowledge and claim?
If you claimed those Wins, you felt energized, and I celebrate that! Yay!
If you kept on going without marking the moment and claiming the Win, you are probably feeling tired, maybe down, and a bit sad or glum.
That’s called “going past a Win.” Meeting your Intention, and not celebrating and acknowledging the win pulls your energy down. You’re abandoning the positive feedback loop of forming Intentions, meeting them (Winning), and claiming them.
It leaves you with an accumulation of incomplete loops that weighs you down. You also feel less present, less capable, and less in ownership of the things you do.
Celebrating a Win doesn’t require that it be “big”. You may choose to have more of a celebration for a Win that is the end of a long chain of Wins, like getting a promotion or a new job. You benefit from owning and celebrating your “simple” Wins too – like going to the grocery store, or doing your workout, or driving home safely today.
There have been a number of studies that assert that you have a finite amount of Executive Function to “spend” each day. Building a practice of owning and celebrating your Intention reinforces your ability to act with and form Intentions that help you succeed.
Celebrating Wins is also a strong way to support practicing gratitude, by acknowledging people and actions that helped you reach your Intentions and have Wins to claim.
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Before you go – claim one Win. Think about your week, and claim the Win for one Intention you met. Congratulate yourself, and mean it.
You can do this. I can help.