Day 24 on which I try a little happy dance

There’s something you’ll find in common among most entrepreneurs, and that’s the fact that while their lives are made up of a series of goals and projects, they have a VERY hard time celebrating their own achievement.

No matter how big the goal, when they reach it, they often forget to so much as mark the occasion. That’s partly because once it becomes clear that the goal is in sight, it’s not good enough anymore, and a NEW goal emerges that’s farther out on the horizon.

And with a lot of entrepreneurs, myself included, having others recognize an achievement isn’t much of a reward, either. In fact, when someone congratulates me on having done something publicly awesome, I have to resist giving them all the reasons that it’s not as good as it looks, or as good as it could have been, or worth the extreme sacrifices it took to get there…because I AM socially adept enough to know that no one wants to hear any of that, and it’s politer just to say “Thank you”.

I often wonder what we, what *I*, miss by not taking a little more time to mark, and to try to appreciate, those moments. I mean, if a friend or acquaintance told you that he got a promotion at work, or finished a huge project, or ran his first marathon, you’d congratulate him and want to hear more about it, right? And if he said, “Actually, it’s just the result of doing my job. I’m not sure that doing what I said I would do is really worthy of praise”—WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I’D SAY TO MYSELF about an accomplishment—you’d probably exit the conversation thinking, “Wow, dude, enjoy your success for a minute.”

So let’s see if I can change that pattern.

As of today, a little short of 25% into my #100DaysofHealth project, I have officially lost 10 pounds AND ALSO dropped into a new weight class. 

 Yes, I’m really proud of myself. 

Yes, it IS a lot of mental discipline to stay on track and get to the gym every day and develop new habits. 

Yes, it DOES put me literally exactly on track to get down to my ideal weight by day 100. 

Thank you.

Hey, that did feel kind of good, and so does the fact that I’m now only 5 pounds from the first “reward weight” I set for myself, and when I hit that—which should be in the next 2-3 weeks, if things proceed as they have been—I get to get my new tattoo. Yay!

Thanks for attending my one-woman dance party. It's over now, and you can go about your day. I'm going to try to relive it a couple of times just to see how that feels.