When To Use

Use the Take Stock life-recipe to reflect on your milestones and accomplishments and discover the key ingredients that support you, creating your dreams and goals in the process.

Overview

We can be so busy creating and achieving that we can forget to make time to stop and appreciate where we are in our life journey. One of the most successful ways I find to rejuvenate is to look back over time and acknowledge myself for my accomplishments, milestones, and highlights.

No matter what is going on in your life, I urge you to celebrate your personal achievements and make the time to honor yourself for all you have done. As you work through each accomplishment you may notice patterns, such as old habits that aren’t serving you anymore, as well as steps forward that created a positive outcome.

It’s not always easy letting go of the old or taking new and courageous steps forward, so you definitely deserve to reward yourself for this.

Whether you use this recipe before you go on vacation so you can really kick back and relax, upon completing a job or project, or even in the lead-up to a performance appraisal, you might be surprised how valuable it was to learn about yourself in this way.

I urge you to take the time to give this recipe a go at least once this year. I’m sure you will enjoy what you discover as a result. Remember to celebrate your milestones!

Cooking Time

Take the time to savor and indulge in each milestone

Ingredients

√ Notebook
√ Pen
√ Quiet space
√ Diary (if needed)

Preparation

1. Choose a period of time to reflect on (say 3, 6, or 12 months).
2. On a blank page in your notebook, list all the major categories in your life such as health, relationships, home, career, finances, fitness, recreation, hobbies, self development, etc.

Instructions - How to cook up my accomplishments

1. List your accomplishments (in any order) related to any or all of your listed categories during your chosen period of time. Remember these achievements are relevant to you only. We all know personally what it took to overcome or create something in our life, so please honor yourself now by listing anything that was a milestone for you. Even if it was seemingly small, you created this win so make a note of it.

2. Next, ask yourself three questions:
1) What steps did I take to make this happen?
2) What did I let go of?
3) What did I learn about myself in the process?
Ask yourself these questions for each new category or accomplishment.

Savor your accomplishments
3. When you have finished, take a final moment to read back through your accomplishments. As you read each one, stop and allow your memory to turn back to that moment in your life again. Let yourself feel that sense of accomplishment again. Take as long as you like to reconnect with each milestone.

4. Once you have reflected on all your accomplishments, acknowledge yourself for making those happen. Congratulations on all the steps you have taken to be where you are today!

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