Stop & Celebrate

Everyday you set out to achieve your goals. You work hard, you take one more step in the right direction, and on days when you stumble, you pick yourself up and get right back into it. It’s thrilling, it’s empowering, it’s exhausting!

Even though I wouldn’t trade what I am doing for the world, I too get tired. And every once in a while I have to remind myself to stop, take a breath, and celebrate what is going on around me. It’s easy to get so lost in the work that you lose sight of what you have accomplished. Always pushing for the next thing and not appreciating what you have is a surefire way to burn out.

While “Hustling” may be in your blood and you work at it every single day, it is ok to “Turn Hustle Mode Off” for a second.

I have found that when I take a day to recharge, my focus is through the roof the next day. This past weekend we spent the day with friends and family celebrating the new life that we will welcome into our family later this year. I did no work that day, I was on a rest day from the gym, and I even stayed off social media (Mostly). What I found was the next day, I was invigorated to get going again. I hit the gym hard, put up a new post, worked out a plan for the next podcast and was completely driven at work.

However, I will say that when you take a day off you have to remember to get back into it. It is fairly easy to take one day, then another, and before you realize it, you have to start all over again. It is all a game of balance. Keeping your focus and rest in balance will move you forward, but putting one far before the other will eventually slow your progress to a halt.

So today, take a minute to look around you and celebrate what you have built. Whether it is a new PR at the gym, the latest edit of a video, applying to a few open jobs, or the fact that you got through the day. (Sometimes that is the biggest achievement of them all.) Celebrate it and be proud of yourself and your accomplishments. Then, get back to it and achieve that next goal. Like everything else, you have established a routine, the balance will come and your momentum will carry you further than ever before.