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08.19.2014

THE IMPORTANCE OF CELEBRATING OFTEN

On Friday’s post, I encouraged you to take my celebration challenge in honor of my blog’s 2nd birthday. I made a point to celebrate the milestone (my celebration photos are below), and it got me thinking about the importance of celebrating in general. Are you someone who celebrates often or never at all? My assumption is that the majority of enjoy celebrating, but fail to regularly celebrate ourselves and our accomplishments.
Here are a few reasoning why I and maybe others don’t celebrate often:
 -Thinking I don’t have the time, energy, or money to celebrate
-Thinking I’m proud of my progress, but I’m not where I want to be, so I don’t want to celebrate just yet (common with weight loss goals)
-Thinking I would like to celebrate, but others may think it’s arrogant and weird that I’m always celebrating
Do you find yourself making one of those excuses as to why you shouldn’t be celebrating?! I recently read an article on the every day celebrations that go on at Disneyland. When you enter the magical world that is Disney, it feels like you’re there to celebrate your birthday, Christmas, Hanuka, and New Years all wrapped into one. The focus on celebration is so integral at Disney that even the parade rolling down Main Street is called, “Celebrate You.”
The parades, the rides, the music, the characters, the shows, the fireworks all make up the celebration, but at Disneyland celebrating happens whether it indeed is a special day in your world or if it is just another Tuesday night. Disney celebrates for the sake of celebrating…there is no legitimate excuse needed to celebrate there. What if we did more of that in our lives? What if we made celebration a regular habit?
Listed are a few reasons as to why we all should begin celebrating more:
 -Gratitude: simply focusing on what in your life could be celebrated, shifts your perspective to one of gratitude; we all have so much to be thankful for and things that should be celebrated
-Momentum: the more we recognize accomplishments – big or small – in our lives, the more momentum we build to continue achieving

-Magnetic Attraction: Oprah says it best, “the more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate”

A few pictures from my blog’s birthday…
What would a celebration be without some food?! While sushi was the intention, Cheesecake Factory to-go was the dinner of choice: loaves of bread, calamari, buffalo chicken strips, and orange chicken.

It’s an unwritten rule that you cannot celebrate a birthday without some cake! Chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake = major noms.

The most fitting birthday card 🙂

Outfit Details:
Necklace & Dress: Francescas
Shoes: Target
Hair: “sock” bun with insert purchased at H&M

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  1. Aunie

    that's so awesome. i agree–you must celebrate and have fun with it. question, when you do eat out (like the photo above) how much do you choose to eat?

  2. Fitness Barbie

    Hi Aunie,
    This pictured meal was for my fiance and I. I've always had the eating patterns of not being able to eat a lot in one sitting, but being able to eat another full meal 60 minutes after a different meal lol. So, I actually ate this dinner (~2 pieces of bread, 1/3 the calamari & 1/2 the buffalo chicken) around 6PM then around 9PM, I had the rest of the chicken & 1/2 of the cheesecake.

    If I do have "celebration food" lol, I don't like to go overboard with portions because that's when I feel sick sick, which I hate.

    XO

    • Aunie

      Thanks so much, Lauren! I totally get it. I used to always overeat, and lately I also feel sick when I do it! It's taken a bit of time to learn to love smaller portions, but I've finally gotten myself on track 🙂 Thanks again for all you do!

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