"By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you
actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments."
~ Jack Canfield
Let's pause
and appreciate something about ourselves today. Something current or something from the past. Something about which you feel great. At least one thing. Perhaps many.
One of the exercises Jack suggests in his book The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, is to make a list of 100 things you have accomplished in your life so far. You
might wish to try this. Start from early childhood. Include things like: you learned to role over, sit up, crawl, stand, walk, and run. Later, you learned to ride a bike, swim, print, write, and read. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Tie your shoes. Years later...getting your driver's license.
Include every little thing you can think of that's a part of growing up as well as things unique to you.
For example, two of my 100 things are: I got the lead part in our kindergarten graduation ceremony, playing Sister Jane Francis, the principal; and, I faced cancer.
Yes, include things like that.
If you can, take the time. Make the time. Pause and realize in a fresh new way how wonderful you
are...how wonderful your life is, in part due to all the challenges you faced.
Wishing you pride and joy and blessings for what's next.
With loving,
Charlene
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