Episode 55: Time to Celebrate and Re-energise!
Show notes
In Episode 55, Sam explores the power of celebration and how we can use it to re-energize ourselves. As it’s Christmas and you hopefully are getting a little break, now is the perfect time to make some space to acknowledge and celebrate your achievements. It has been a tough year and we are exhausted, but this concept of celebration can be so powerful in helping recharge and re-energise.
Sam explains why it’s important to celebrate achievements always, but especially now at the end of 2020. She also clarifies what she means by the term ‘celebration’ and why it matters in these tough times.
Sam discusses how the Expert Mindset most accountants have keeps us focused on mistakes and how to fix them, and why it’s so powerful to shift the focus to also acknowledge the little moments that need celebrating.
Sam then shares a recent story of how she experienced this power of celebration first hand, and became re-energized from it. Plus, she covers some ways both Australian ‘tall poppy’ culture and habits we have as professionals can block us from celebrating.
Finally, Sam gives a self-celebration exercise to try as a Christmas present you can give yourself after a very tough year.
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What we cover in this episode
Why celebrating our achievements is so important always, but especially in 2020
What Sam means by the term ‘celebration’ and why it matters when we’re exhausted and going through tough times
How our Expert Mindset that keeps us focused on what went wrong and how to fix it
The reason we need to shift our focus to acknowledge the little moments that need celebrating
A recent story of how Sam experienced the power of this celebration and became re-energized from it
The ways Australian ‘tall poppy’ culture can block us from celebrating our own achievements
The habits we have as professionals that keep us stuck thinking about the ‘shoulds’
How depleted our energy is this year and why finding ways to reenergise is so important
A self-celebration exercise to try as a Christmas present that you can give yourself
Quotes
“It was something that I intuitively and logically knew, but didn't realise I wasn't actually using it very well. It’s the power of celebration and how we can actually use it to re energize ourselves, particularly in these [tough] times.”
“This is about sitting down and really acknowledging when we personally have had success, both in business and in our personal lives, and really focusing on what has been successful. I think this year this is really important, because 2020 has been a tough year. Even without it being 2020, there are times in our professional and personal lives where things get really tough, and we tend to…not concentrate on some little moments that might need celebration.”
“As professionals, have you ever noticed what you spend a lot of time kicking ourselves about what we haven't achieved with very little acknowledgment around what we have? …When we do this, this is actually exhausting and energy draining. And then the other thing is we are always measuring ourselves on what we should be doing, what should be theexpectations, which aren't necessarily based on our own expectations.”
“At the end of the day, the only way we can re-energize [is celebration], particularly in these times of exhaustion. And we have these times, they've been exacerbated, obviously, with COVID. And particularly in the accounting industry right now, it is exhausting. We need to acknowledge that and as a Christmas present to ourselves, we have to actually sit down and have some self-celebration.”
“It's very important to go and look at those [mistakes] and how we fix it. But we also have to look at the power of celebration. And not just the traditional stuff that we should celebrate but stuff that's been hard for us, even if it's not something that should have been hard. This has been a tough year, we need to take the time and create the space to celebrate some of the things that got us through it We are here, it is Christmas and you can celebrate that.”
“I know that some of the stuff that I am suggesting [in this episode] will make you feel uncomfortable. And if you did feel uncomfortable, that means you should definitely do it!”
“We chastise ourselves for everything we haven't done, but we have to spend equal if not more time on what we have done. That will help us with our exhaustion. We are exhausted. But if we can take away that element of the exhaustion that comes from our self-recrimination we might be able to just help ourselves a little bit with that exhaustion as well.”
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