wp-portfolio domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/lizetta/blog.lizetta.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114I was reminded twice today about the importance of celebrating the wins in life, even the small ones. It\u2019s so easy to focus on the negative things. The things you wish you\u2019d done differently. The areas of life that aren\u2019t going as well as you would like them to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some people are great at celebrating these things. In the work environment it can be seen as bragging. Celebrating doing what you are meant to be doing as part of the job. I know I\u2019m not the sort of person that finds it easy to seek recognition at work for that exact reason. But sometimes it\u2019s important to look back, see what you\u2019ve achieved and celebrate. Those little things can easily add up to bigger celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a conversation today I dug out my gratitude journal which I knew I hadn\u2019t filled in for a while. What I didn\u2019t realise is I haven\u2019t filled it in since 2 January! As well as celebrating a win everyday, however small, I would capture a highlight of the day and something I was grateful for. Looking back at the entries over the last couple of months of 2023 I realised none of the things I captured were big things, but they were all things that had made my days better in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m a glass half empty kind of person by default. I focus on the things that didn\u2019t go well rather than the things that did. I\u2019ll never be one of those positive people that skips through life thinking that everything is great. The state of the world right now makes it even harder to be that sort of person than usual. But I do want to get back in to reflecting on the positives. Hopefully that will start to help me balance out the negative events or things that bring me down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This evening I joined a livestream of a funeral for an inspiring young woman. Hearing her friends and family tell stories of her life clearly demonstrated her zest for life, even through the eight years since she was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLife is short. Celebrate everything.\u201d<\/p>Lauren O\u2019Neill<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n As I continue to look for signs that she is still with us looking out for us, I\u2019ll take those words with me and try to live with that same enthusiasm, celebrating everything and being grateful for the little things as I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The big and the small wins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Celebrating wins","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-of-writing","category-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YSkZ-1sv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lizetta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}