Surprise Surprise!...Celebrate Success

I've been remiss at writing for the last week w/ so much going on, but I wanted to get a few things out there into cyberspace. So last week I did something pretty darned unreasonable. At 10:30pm Wednesday I booked a flight from LA to NJ for the next morning with my new romantic interest(ok ok, I guess I can start calling her my girlfriend now). 6 hrs later we were heading to the airport and arrived in NJ Thursday afternoon to surprise my Mom for dinner. She had been pretty down lately and I knew she would greatly benefit from a big hug from her only child(that would be me). I didn't know how she'd react when I opened the door at my Aunt's house to greet her(I knew she was going to be there for the holidays). I figured she would jump up and down with excitement but when she saw me, she just broke down, gave me the 10 minute hug she's been craving and cried. And I got emotional from the experience and still do everytime I think or talk about it. I made such a huge difference in her world simply by showing up. Kimmie and I(yes that's her name) hopped a flight back to LA early the next morning so bascially we flew back east for dinner. It was a great time and I felt so happy to have made my Mom so happy. How many people would have done that? At first we talked about going when we had more time to spend there, etc. But really the time was right then. And we acted. And that's so true with everything in life. Most of the greatest accomplishments we will ever achieve in life is done by taking action. Whatever the form, action inspires us. If we get inspired to do something and all we do is dream about it, then we are great daydreamers. But if we are inspired and take action, even before we've gotten all our ducks in a row, thats when amazing things make manifest in our lives.

I was the guest speaker this morning on our morning wake up call in my business. I talked about celebrating success. If you are anything like me, you consider yourself to be a goal oriented person. I set my sites on the stars, always. I drive myself hard and I'm harder on myself than on anyone else. My goal partner for The Game which I've talked about in earlier blogs picked up on that recently and suggested that I start to keep a Success Journal. It seemed a little silly but I am coachable and always open to hearing ways to improve my life(remember Im goal oriented!) So I started doing this almost every day. And it's made a huge difference in my life already. I am learning to celebrate the little things, even the seemingly insignificant things. As I start writing, I start focusing on all of the things I've done that day that I can write about. By the 3rd or 4th thing, my energy level literally begins to elevate. It is one of the MOST powerful exercises I've ever done. Do you want to start feeling better about yourself? Do you want to start having more energy, attract more abundance? Start with something as simple as this exercise. You'll be glad you did! In fact, one thing I will be writing later is that I took the time to Blog today!

So the overall themes for today...take action, be unreasonable, and celebrate all of your successes!