if you wait for the applause, it'll never come.we often wait for others to celebrate us so much that we forget why we do things in our own lives. don't get me wrong, being celebrated is a great feeling. I love being told that I'm doing a good job. however, that only feels genuine when I'm working on doing something that matters to me. if I focus too much on how I will be perceived and what it will do for others, I lose track of the essence of who I am.be yourself, be genuine, and most importantly, celebrate yourself.sending you lots of love and peaaaaaaaaaaace!https://stan.store/thezurkieshow
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One of the reasons I think people burn out is they don't know when to admit they've done a good job. When to recognize, you know what, I'm chillin'. That was a good job on my end and I deserve to take a break and I deserve to get myself that $9 latte that I cannot justify the price of. Why? Because I need to celebrate myself. You need to celebrate yourself in your life. Do you know why?
Because nobody, I promise you, nobody is going to do it for you. I have learned that with my birthday. I have made the conscious decision for the past two years to not celebrate my birthday. Just no. Why? Because it's like, well, that's what I tell myself, but it's actually because I think people will celebrate it for me and I will have a nice surprise party and that would be awesome.
But guess what? Celebrating yourself is more important than that surprise party. It is more important than, you know, waiting. You have probably worked very hard recently. I don't know what it's been that you've done, but maybe you were studying for an exam and you did a great job.
And instead of acknowledging that you did a great job on that exam or that you had a great date, you went on a date, you were anxious, the date went well, you had a great day where you were productive, instead of celebrating yourself, you punish yourself for it. You tell yourself, no, no, no, no, no. That should be the standard.
That's how every day should be because you're comparing yourself to people that do that. That's their daily routine with the Saratoga water and rubbing a banana peel all over their face. And you think that's, that's what I should be doing.
And you're confused as to why you don't make progress and why you're not able to continue the momentum of changing your life, your routines, your habits, your day to day. I don't know. Maybe it's the fact that you are not giving any kind of positive reaffirmation or positive feedback to you doing something good for yourself. Instead, you are actually giving yourself more work.
And I get it, you know, the reward for hard work is more hard work. And there's a lot to be said about that, right? If you do not take just a minute to acknowledge, yo, that was sick that I did that. That was great that I got this opportunity and I aced it. Why would you work to get that opportunity again? Why? You wouldn't. And you won't. Celebrate yourself.
You've wanted to go on a trip to visit your friend that moved across the country. Okay, make that something that you're going to work towards. Make that something that will be the celebration to a very hard thing in your life. Maybe that's getting your taxes done and go. And go.
You told yourself that you were going to buy some Air Maxes that your mom could never afford to buy you in middle school once you get that promotion at your job or once you graduate college. Buy them. Why do we suppress it? Why do we tell ourselves, you know what, no, no, no, I don't deserve this. It's like whatever, it's life. You worked so hard for that, you should be able to celebrate yourself.
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