Look How Far You’ve Come

When was the last time you took a few minutes and acknowledged how far you've come in your life?

We are four full months and a few days into this new year. 

January first probably seems like forever ago.

It does for me.

And A LOT has happened in my life since the ball dropped in Times Square.

Look How Far You've Come

Thing is, I tend to get immersed in daily life. Everything from routines (reading, morning yoga, and journaling) to planning for upcoming events (I just completed a 2-week whirlwind book signing and speaking tour in the Pacific Northwest).

In between these things is everything else:

• Meal prep and eating
• Exercise
• Laundry
• Taking care of my mom
• Errands
• Podcasting
• Mastermind calls
• Content creation
• Self-care (chiro and acupuncture -- must haves at this point in my life)

It's so easy to lose sight of our dreams when daily life demands so much of our time and attention.

But after listening to a recent Mel Robbins podcast (love her!) I realized I have accomplished many of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year.

And I'm celebrating that in this post and encouraging you to do the same thing.

Even if nothing "big" has happened in your life since the first of the year, I bet when you think about the last 16 weeks, you will be able to look how far you have come.

Small accomplishments count, too.

Are you as far along as you'd like to be?

I don't know you, so I can't answer that.

What I See When I Look Back

I can say for myself I'm feeling pretty good about the first third of this new year. I accomplished one of the big goals I've had on my list for quite some time: to read and sign my latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown, for a live audience in indie bookstores. 

Feedback from the people I met on this mini tour was beyond anything I could have imagined. I felt seen and heard and appreciated as a writer, as a poet, as a speaker, as a human navigating my way through life. 

These are not small things for any of us.

And I can thank myself and the people who helped me achieve this goal including my wonderful marketing gal, Sharon Castlen, for doing the work to get myself into these places.

I'll write more about the reading and signing experience in a future post. For now, I want to encourage you to look how far you've come. Maybe not just this year, but across the years of your life.

Identify at least three goals you have achieved. Thank yourself for taking the risks, both big and small. Moving on from situations that weren't a good fit. Forgiving yourself and others for when things fell apart. And things always fall apart. The Law of Polarity guarantees things fall apart because things also hold together. 

A bigger challenge for you is to build a practice around looking at how far you've come from time to time. In the busy-ness of modern life, it is too easy to forget we achieve things. Often, more than we realize.

And if our score card isn't where we'd like it to be?

The power to change the score is only one decision away.