Letters in Space

A few days ago I wrote a post about my goals for 2012, and how they went awry when family problems got in the way. I also wrote a follow-up post when one of my friends on Facebook suggested that I had way too many goals! This is the second follow-up post, and it relates to a comment made by another friend on Facebook.

In my original post, I suggested that when your goals get swamped by life events, you should try:

1. Deal with the crisis as best you can
2. Rest a bit
3. Be prepared to reshuffle your goals, and even to re-evaluate them in the light of what has happened.

Upon reading this, my lovely friend and colleague Karen Evans said:

Needs a point 2b - celebrate achivement in dealing with the crisis in a constructive manner.

This was an entirely new thought for me. I am ashamed to say that it had never occurred to me that surviving a crisis might be a really good thing to celebrate. I have even seen other people do it. A work colleague of my husband recently held a party in part to celebrate the fact that she is winning her fight with breast cancer. But it had never occurred to me that crisis survival was something that I should celebrate.

Now that I think about it, it makes really good sense. But I also know that I am really lousy at celebrating. So I am wondering… What do you like to do to celebrate? I would really love it if you could tell me in the comments, so that we can create a list of great celebration ideas.

Then we can really begin to be kind and loving to ourselves.