Celebrating Your Wins to Accelerate Your Progress

Hey there, Highly Sensitive Person -

There's one thing that I notice most high-achieving, Highly Sensitive People (HSP) don't do that has a big net-negative on their lives and work.

Most high-achieving HSPs don't slow down long enough to celebrate their wins!!!

I know this might not seem like a big deal, but it is in the long run.

Most HSPs I know are quick to accomplish one thing, mark it off their list with nary a backward glance, and move onto the next thing on the never-ending list.

We're in such a hurry to complete the next task / project / goal that we don't take a minute to acknowledge what we've already done.

Here's why this is so unhelpful.

When you blow past your wins and celebrations, you 

• build up a story in your head that you "never get enough done" and "don't know what you're doing."

• constantly judge yourself and beat yourself up for not performing at your ideal potential instead of your actual best in the moment.

• create chronic, low-level anxiety and guilt that you're not living up to your own high standards, and any minute now, someone is going to call you on your B.S.



It's a sneaky thought, "It's no big deal that I [insert win here]," but it's one of the most damaging things you can think to yourself.

You're robbing yourself of your own, hard-earned achievement!

When it gets really bad, you may even feel resentful and irritated that others aren't acknowledging you for the high-quality work you're doing.

Of course they're not - you're teaching them not to acknowledge you by down-playing and under-valuing your own, legit success.



If you're not going to acknowledge your success, no one else knows to notice it either.

Now that I've thoroughly called out some of our unhelpful thoughts that keep us stuck in Imposter Syndrome (We're onto you, brain!)...

...here are just a few of the things that can happen when you do let yourself celebrate.

1. Big wins are typically a series of little wins strung together. Acknowledging little wins builds up your big wins - so you can actually see and recognize them over time.
   

2. Taking a minute to celebrate recalibrates your hormones and calms your nervous system. I know you're into that, HSP!
   

3. Celebrations are what build your new self-concept as the resourceful, resilient, go-getter you want to be. You can't step into your next version if you're keeping your head stuck in the previous one.

And those are just a few of the 11 benefits I shared in episode 75 of Highly Sensitive Club - 3 Steps to Get Unstuck Part 3: Celebrating Wins.

Listen on your favorite podcast app and / or watch on YouTube.

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In the episode, you'll learn the:

• deeper costs of ignoring your wins

• 11 ways celebrating builds self-trust and evidence of progress

• mental, emotional, and physical techniques that help you soak in success - and build on it forever

• bonus technique tailor-made for HSPs

It might seem like a chore or a waste of time when you have so many other things you want to do.

But it truly does make the difference between noticing what you've done and staying stuck in the cycle of fighting fires.

What's one thing you want to celebrate today - big or small?

Hit reply and let me know - I'm the Hype QUEEN, and I would love to acknowledge your wins and gas you up a bit today. Truly.

Listen to Episode 75. Celebrating Wins for inspiration if you need it. 

I gotchu.

To soaking in every drop of success you've created -

Steph

P.S. Here are Part 1: Clean Slate Energy Anytime, Anywhere and Part 2: Powerful Evaluation - in case you missed them.