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Celebrating Victories


I’ve been thinking a lot about celebrating victories. I may not be talking about the victories you’re thinking about though. No, not victories where the war is won, the movement is finally mastered, or the thing you’ve been worrying about is finally done. I mean the small victories. 
 

It is the most incredible feeling in the world to finally have your kid potty-trained. (I hate potty-training!) However, the random day that your child actually keeps the underwear dry is worthy of celebration, even though you have a feeling tomorrow will be different.


In the world of CrossFit, there is what feels like a million different skills to try to master.  It can become overwhelming unless you learn to celebrate even the small victories.  Maybe you’ve been trying to get toe-to-bars for a while but suddenly, your toe gets an half inch away from the bar… Celebrate! Maybe you’re trying to get pull ups and you finally get one pull-up, but the person next to you has 20… Celebrate! Maybe you’ve been trying to get double-under jump rope for a year, and you finally get one… but only one… Celebrate!

 
If we can’t stop and appreciate the small victories, and if we are only looking forward to becoming better and pushing our children to becoming better, we will live a frustrated life.  The problem is, we all have the tendency to compare ourselves to others around us.  Someone else made a better score.  Someone else potty-trained their child in a week. (Not me!). Someone else seems to acclimate to CrossFit movements with incredible, swift ease.  Someone else is further in their relationship with God than you are, or knows more than you. There will ALWAYS be someone else who is further along. Life will pass us by as we are hoping and wishing that we had it more together.


What is your small victory this week? Find that thing in life that you or your family has made progress in.  If it’s your kids, call it out and celebrate with them.  If it’s you, stop for a moment and get excited.  Sure, there’s more work to be done, but enjoy the fact that you’re not stagnant (at least for today). Progress was made and will continue to be made.  Don’t compare yourself to other people and just appreciate and celebrate what has been accomplished.  Every little thing. 
 
 
Photo Credit to Mike Kokoszka with FITRSTUDIOS

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