Celebrating Small Wins

Today I wanted to talk about the importance of celebrating your wins, even the smallest wins you don’t think it’s worth celebrating. Celebrate them because celebrating small wins triggers feelings of pride, increased confidence, motivation and joy. This helps to keep you working towards your next small steps, and eventually your overall goals. 

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

Society brainwashes us about overnight success stories and flashy accomplishments, where in reality, small wins are the biggest building block of your success and happiness in life. 

Our younger selves are often socially conditioned to to rank small or simple wins as not impactful or not as important as bigger wins. But the reality is that small wins matter even more than you’d actually think.

A daily routine of mine is journaling my gratitudes. But things got way more interesting when I added these journal entries with daily wins. Because these daily wins remind you of your daily progress and knowing that you’ve made progress will boost your confidence to take the next step towards your bigger goals. Studies have shown in research of organizations who have employees simply recording progress in some way helped them boost self-confidence and this upgraded confidence can be put to use toward future successes because capturing these small wins every day enhances a worker’s motivation. If you want more details on this you can Google Harvard study celebrating small wins. 

Earlier I mentioned feeling a sense of pride and joy when we record these wins. There is actually science behind this thought process too. When you accomplish something, it activates the reward center of our brains, the neurochemical dopamine is released and energizes us with feel-good emotions and helps us experience the feeling of being rewarded, and can hook you on wanting to achieve even more so that you can feel this emotion again. 

Celebrating small wins gives you clarity. So often we lose sight of our direction and why, but recording these small wins down will help you see that clarity again, what it is that you’re working towards and why you started in the first place. Success loves speed and success loves celebrations. 

So what are some small wins that are often overlooked?

• Learned something new.
• Tried something new.
• Completed everything according to your schedules.
• Stepped outside your comfort zone.
• Found an opportunity to be creative.
• Made fast decisions
• Trusted your intuition or followed your gut.
• Made all meetings today on time.
• Had a great idea.
• Hit inbox zero.
• Performed a random act of kindness.
• Completed self-care.
• Ate a nutritious meal.
• Read for 10 minutes.
• Didn’t hit snooze or woke up before the alarm clock.
• Practiced boundaries and said “no” to something you usually can’t refuse
• Decluttered your space.
• Spent time with family.
• Felt productive.
• Stuck to a routine.
• Avoided distractions or procrastination.
• Made your bed.
• Practiced mindfulness
• Got to the gym or got some exercise done at home.
• Asked for help when you needed it.
• Meditated or did breathworks
• Gained one extra follower on Social media

I challenge you to celebrate your wins right now on social, post on IG or elsewhere and tag me at @mslucyliu . 

Remember, nothing is too small to record down and celebrate and it’s not bragging if it’s the truth. Keep celebrating, and your wins will repeat and expand.

Cheers to your celebration and evolution. 

You’ve got golden content on social media, on your website, or in books sitting there collecting digital dust.  Don’t let it go to waste! 

In this episode Becky Ogden who considers herself a miner of sorts.   She’s a repurposing specialist who’ll sift through that golden content of yours and find the valuable nuggets for you. She’ll give it new life so you can leverage it again to save yourself time on content creation, show up consistently online, build that crucial “know, like & trust” factor, drive traffic to your offers, and sign new clients.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• Remember how to repurpose content with the easy to remember acronym E.A.S.E. 
• Is it correct to start with long form content and repurpose it into small pieces?
• What is the best content for repurposing?
• The 4 step EASE process to repurpose content
• And so much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

Charlene is a relationship expert and also a dating and love coach. She is also a Certified empowerment coach through the S.W.A.T. Institute. Her specialty is helping single, successful career women attract committed, masculine men find their aligned partner, their best-friend lover.

Charlene Byars enjoys a full coaching practice as an Empowerment and Relationship/Dating Coach, and leader of women. She is also a speaker on several topics. She has studied women and men in relationships for over 20 years and is the creator and founder of the Relationship Revolution System and Level Up For Love. Her passion is coaching and leading women to live their most empowered lives and attract their soul-aligned, devoted masculine men.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• What are the three female archetypes and how can women use that knowledge?
• How do you explain or teach about respect in a romantic relationship?
• How important is communication in a relationship?
• What do men really want?

And So much more…

Guest featured in this episode:

Sadie Smiley is the founder of Passive Income Pathways, a financially-accessible coaching membership that teaches people how to turn their blogs into six figure businesses.

She is a philanthropist who lives in Mexico with her husband, Kevin. She absolutely LOVES helping people get out of their own way, get unstuck, and drop the BS to achieve their financial goals and dreams!

Things you will learn in this episode:

• How Sadie was able to overcome homelessness and build a multiple six figure blogging business

• Resources that helped her mindset transformation

• And so much more…

How Being Lazy Can Improve Your Life

When I was younger, I thought being lazy was bad, I thought I needed to work my butt off in order to see results. Although hustling did work for me and brought me success in early life. However, it also led me to burnout. Society brainwashes us that if we are not hustling, we are being lazy. But today I want to debunk this myth and say that there’s always both sides to a story and when we look at things with a different perspective, we become open to accepting new opportunities and an improved life. I think the truth is there are definitely benefits to laziness and that being lazy can even help you improve your life. 

Now first I need to say we must rule out that the so-called “Laziness” I’m talking about here and the lack of motivation are not red flags of underlying health disorders. Certain physical causes such as high blood sugar or depression or chronic inflammation of course can lead to laziness but when you are in good health and feeling lazy, don’t hate yourself for feeling that way. 

Of course we all know that being lazy has a bad reputation, we see so many billionaires or CEOs talk about how they wake up at 5am and are always working hard. But did you know there is also scientific data that backs up the idea that those with higher IQ actually get bored less easily and therefore leading them to be less active physically and spend more time in their thoughts. Bill Gates has been quoted many times that he chooses lazy people to do hard jobs because lazy people will find an easy way to do it. 

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg are known to the public as prolific gamers, they enjoy their down time playing video games but that doesn’t make them lazy at all, and on the contrary they are even more productive when they are working and coming up with new ideas for their company. So if you love to binge watch TV, go ahead, that doesn’t make you lazy, it just means you will have to find a way to be even more productive when you are actually working. 

Life is made up of all our decisions and our decisions lead to our life experience.

Being lazy is now my intention and decision because I choose to be a strategic thinker.

I’m all in when it comes to taking imperfect action towards my ultimate goals because success loves speed, but I’m against wasteful scattered actions.

I prefer fun and efficient processes so that I can be lazy and also enjoy all activities that bring me joy. 

So I will continue to be lazy so that I can find the quickest ways to do things.

I will continue to be lazy for the tasks that I rather have someone else do the work for me aka delegating without guilt.

I will continue to be lazy so that I get to do what I want instead of what is required by society.

So as you can see, in all these ways, laziness has actually helped me improve my life and I hope that anytime you feel lazy in the future, don’t beat yourself up about it, but instead, reflect on how this situation can actually help improve your life.