#133: Put Yourself First Pt 2: Celebrating Personal Achievements and Embracing Life Transitions

After ushering my daughter off to her new life chapter, my house fell silent and an overwhelming sense of emptiness, mingled with accomplishment, washed over me. It was from this empty nest that I found the inspiration to encourage others to celebrate themselves, their achievements, and the skills they've acquired throughout their journeys. Thus, begins a new series called 'Putting Yourself First.' I share my experiences in this period of transition, from leading a Girl Scout troop to coaching my daughter to her Gold Award, reminding you to acknowledge your growth and accomplishments.

In this episode, I mention a FREE four-video training series I created that will help you develop a sense of what's next for you.

YOU CAN GRAB THAT FREE TRAINING SERIES HERE

So, have you ever paused to celebrate yourself after achieving a significant milestone? This discussion illustrates the importance of such a celebration, and how it can positively impact your outlook on future endeavors. I delve into the importance of celebrating personal achievements, using the experience of my daughter leaving home to kick off this reflective conversation.

Additionally, I introduce a complimentary video training series, 'Put Yourself First', designed to encourage you to reflect on their lives, prepare for the next chapter, and most importantly, celebrate themselves.

YOU CAN GRAB THAT FREE TRAINING SERIES HERE

Let's toast to our accomplishments and cherish the skills we've honed during unique phases of our lives.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to.
Every Day a New Thought.
I'm your host, thor Chalgren,and each weekday I share new
thought perspectives.
Today I want to talk aboutcelebrating Yesterday.
I started a four-part series tocelebrate back to school.
I'm calling this series PutYourself First.

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Yesterday, I shared my ownperspective as an empty nester
parent.
It was five years ago.
I was an empty nester for thefirst time, and now I kind of am
again.
My daughter, who was here withus after graduating, has now
left home, this time most likelyfor good.
So our house is empty again.

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As I said yesterday, now is theperfect time to put yourself
first.
The question is what are yougoing to do?
As I mentioned yesterday, Istarted by making a decision.
One of the challenges indeciding to move forward is that
once we decide, we can be soanxious to move forward that we

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don't pause even for a moment tocelebrate what we just did.
So that's my message for todayCelebrate, party.
If you're at some crossroads inlife where you've just
accomplished completing a longjourney, stop, pause and take a

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moment to celebrate what youjust accomplished.
There are two reasons why.
First, you need to celebrateyou If you have kids that
graduated and have left thehouse.
I bet you had a graduationparty for them to celebrate them
, and of course you should dothat.

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But what about you?
Did you have a party for you?
You celebrate.
You did this monumental thingraising a kid.
That's worthy of celebrating.
So you should celebrate thishowever you want, so that you
give yourself that pat on theback Could be a party, a weekend
away, a long trip, somethingwhere you get to celebrate you.

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The second reason you shouldcelebrate is so that you can
really remind yourself of whatyou achieved.
I think it's great to make alist, literally write out the
things you're good at, whateverskills that you acquired in this
phase of your life.
Write them down.
For me, if I was writing thisdown, I'd list things like I

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started a Girl Scout troop fromscratch.
I became a trained soccerreferee.
I was president of the bandboosters in middle school.
I was president of the cheerboosters in high school.
I coached my daughter to helpher get to her Girl Scout Gold
Award.
Those are all the things I did.
If I listed those out, I'dbegin to see all the things that

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I had accomplished in this life.
So I recommend that you make alist of your accomplishments
during this time that you'vejust wrapped up.
You might be surprised when yousee it and writing all the
amazing things that you did andthat you are capable of now.
So, as a reminder, I puttogether a video training series

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called Put Yourself First.
It's free.
It's four videos, one every day, followed by a short exercise.
I think it's a great way topause, to reflect and then be
able to move forward with thenext chapter in your life.
So when you're done celebrating, go check it out.
The link is in the show notesbelow and I've also.

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You can find it on my websiteat thorchallgrencom.
Slash first.
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