For the past couple of years, I’ve been a part of a woman’s group called “Creative Conversations”. Take a look at one of the group founders’ posts about one of our meetings here: Creative Times, A Blog for Artists and Entrepreneurs, by Eleanor Traubman. We meet regularly and discuss different topics and work on unique projects as a group. This December meeting is about reviewing our accomplishments in 2010. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, since I’m co-organizing it this time. I realized that it is important to consider all areas of life, because if you are disappointed that you haven’t accomplished something huge, you may be leaving out the smaller accomplishments you’ve achieved so far.
By the way, there are many ways to look at a situation: No, I haven’t become a best-seller author yet, but I’m still a published author, and I’m receiving very positive feedback from people who read “Ask Others, Trust Yourself”. Here are two comments I received this week: “Your book helped me understand what I need to do to be successful”; “I’ve been planning to start my business for a while, and your book made me realize that I’m ready, thank you”. I consider these comments a huge accomplishment by the way!
I suggest that you look back and consider your accomplishments (big or small) in terms of your family/friends/relationships, business/career, financial, spiritual and fun and write them down. My own accomplishments in these areas include making time to visit all my siblings (2 different countries outside the U.S.), keeping in touch with friends and family, connecting with my dad’s cousins whom we had never met until this year, meeting new people, signing up for online dating; growing my coaching practice, teaching Entrepreneurship courses; on my way to meeting my savings goals; continuing to take spiritual courses, practicing Reiki to help others heal; and taking care of my health. Well, haven’t created an exercising schedule yet, but hey this article is about accomplishments! 😉
Feel free to post your own accomplishments here, or share if you had any A-HA moments when thinking of your year 2010 so far.
Eleanor
Elisa
Thanks for this wonderful post. Yes, there is a tendency to focus on what we have yet to accomplish. I love any opportunity to sit down with others and share successes. Succesess can be both internal and external, for sure!
Also, thanks for the shout out to Creative Times. You have been a huge inspiration to me!
Elisa
Eleanor,
Thank you! Our appreciation meeting was really nice and I'm grateful to you and all the Creative Conversations team!
All the best,
Elisa