Celebrating the Small Wins- may 2025

Happy May and happy Monday, lovely, incredible, courageous humans! 

How are you doing?! Where has this email found you? I'd love to encourage you, after you read the next two sentences, to close your eyes just for a few seconds, okay? Tap into your senses: what can you smell, feel, hear, taste, and even see behind your closed eyes? How's your body and mind doing these days? I know for most of us it's spring time, but what season of life are you in? Wishing I could reach an arm out and give you a little love squeeze.

I don't have much to say or share this month. Truthfully, I'm in a period of observing and processing. A very much "appreciate the process" kind of place. Maybe it's the 4 months of traveling really setting in, and my body and mind trying to make sense of the new norm, but I feel very much in a time of awareness. A lot of my days have recently been feeling like a "start over", clean slate, begin again, kind of time. Which is good and bad (& like a million other things ha). I love it because each day is so new and I quite literally never know what it will bring. At the same time, it's exhausting starting over every single day. New conversations with new people, never quite getting to the depth I'd like. Starting over with a workout schedule or movement routine because maybe I'm not in a place where I have a lot of space. Yet, I'm learning a lot from all of this, of course. And it's serving as a reminder of all that we do have.

I think (& I say "I think" because I'm really still trying to figure it all out) the focus for me recently has been on celebrating the small wins. And celebrating the heck out of them. I've been trying to push away those toxic thoughts of "this isn't a big deal, why are you happy?" or "someone else has done this before and it was way better". Those thoughts don't help us. Not recognizing our small accomplishments does not help us. When we celebrate small wins, we build momentum and reinforce those positive habits that we're implementing into our daily lives. These tiny accomplishments bring us a little bit closer to our goals, and while they might seem insignificant on their own, they're crucial for maintaining that motivation and assessing our progress. When we recognize these small wins, our emotion well-being and productivity is positively impacted, our self-confidence is boosted, our focus is clearer, and we're helping our future selves from burning out on whatever it is that we want to keep being able to do.

So maybe our small wins look like: making the bed, watering the plants, just starting the workout (even if it's a small or easy one!), finally cleaning out the cluttered desk, responding to that unopened text that has been patiently waiting, not hitting snooze, sending a message to someone when you think of them, cooking a healthy, yummy meal, feeling really freaking hydrated, paying a bill on time, getting the kids to bed on time, getting positive feedback from a client, how about just getting through the day without crying, lashing out, or feeling anxious? I'm so serious- all of these are deserving of a celebration. We spend so much time working towards our goals and bettering ourselves, that we often just look past the joy in what we've accomplished. And celebrations don't need to be some all out, expensive, all-day consuming events. Some amazing ways to soak up that accomplished feeling is: speaking it out and posting about it, writing in a journal how it feels (because most of the time the only person who truly knows just how much of an accomplishment it was, is you!), get a treat, buy a gift, get dressed up, go to a new restaurant with a friend or by yourself, get flowers, get takeout instead of cooking.

I'm trying to remind myself that self-improvement doesn’t require some massive gestures or overnight transformations. And real transformation is oftentimes pretty ugly, messy and emotional. But just like yoga, it's a practice- a day-in and day-out commitment to knowing our worth of the best life possible! It’s about the daily, seemingly insignificant choices that, when compounded over time, lead to massive success, and hopefully more peace. So MAY we start small this month (hehe see what I did there). Celebrate all that you have overcome. I have no doubt it's some pretty incredible obstacles you have defeated. Rejoice in those small wins and I hope we get to watch as they snowball into something bigger than we ever imagined.

Hoping I get to see some of you this evening for the first Virtual Yoga class of the next 7 weeks, and if you can't make it tonight, there's quite a few more opportunities! There's more info on this below, but if you have any questions at all, please send me a message! I'd love nothing more than to practice with you all for the next few weeks! Sending lots of love your way, today, this week, and this month!