Embrace the Little Milestones

Be Your Own Hype Person...You’ve Earned It! Enjoying the process is a huge component of the creative journey. In today’s episode we talk about celebrating the little milestones along the way, why it is important to be your own hype person, and ways you can use positive momentum to keep pushing you forward!

Celebrating the Little Moments

Hype Yourself Up

When you are juggling multiple things you sometimes forget to slow down and hype yourself up! It can sometimes be easier to fall into the habit of listening to self limiting beliefs which keep us from celebrating the little wins:

These self limiting beliefs can include:

“Never doing enough”
“Could be doing more”
Should’ve - Could’ve -Would’ve
This isn’t worth celebrating “yet”
“Compared to X this is nothing”
It was just pure luck, I don’t really deserve this

Ignore Self-Limiting Beliefs

As a creative, You need to ignore those self limiting beliefs because you are showing up and you are earning your success!

Thinking long-game, you don’t need to wait for the “big moments” because a year ago this may have been what you perceived as your big moment!
Also, we need to remember time will pass no matter what and you will make progress
Don’t wait until you’ve “earned celebration” because by showing up, you are earning it!

Do It For the Process

Why is it important to celebrate the little milestones?

It can give you the “oomph” to keep moving forward
You get to compare your progress to the previous you and not to others
You deserve to be proud of yourself!
You CAN share your wins with others (social or newsletter) but more so do it for yourself
By increasing your acknowledgement and awareness of your actions you will be able to enjoy the process more!

What Moments can you celebrate?

New finished painting or series
Learning a new medium or creative tool
Found a new organization system that is a gamechanger
Reading an amazing art book
New X Y Z….. anything!

Feeling Discouraged?

If you are ever feeling discouraged, what can you do?

List out all of the things you HAVE done or learned over the past year, month, week!
This can include steps toward goals OR learning lessons (which are both valuable)
Confide in a friend
Get off social media

When in doubt: Do something TODAY that you can celebrate!

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