I like to start my group coaching calls by asking members to share a win from the last week with the others.
It puts positive things out to start our call, and helps members realize that they had good weeks with momentum.
I often like to remind clients to celebrate their wins, and I tell them to make sure they treat themselves with something.
I speak from experience – when I hit a goal, I tend to look for the next goalpost to reach and I don’t stop to celebrate and smell the roses.
A coach once pointed this out to me after I shared a big win with her. She asked me; “So how are you going to reward yourself?” and I replied with something like; “Oh nothing’s planned – back to work for me!”
She stopped me and told me to do something to acknowledge my achievement: a nice dinner, buying something I had my eye on, or taking a day off to have some fun.
In her book “The Willpower Instinct”, Kelly McGonigal shared her own story around this topic:
Her boss gave her a bottle of champagne when she received a fellowship to attend graduate school. But she didn’t want to open it since she only got into grad school and hadn’t yet finished, so she carried that bottle around with her for five years and during several moves around the country.
Once she received her diploma, she finally opened it – but it was undrinkable by then. She writes; “As I poured it down the sink, I vowed to never let another bottle go to waste, or another milestone go uncelebrated”
If you’d like to get more clients and help them celebrate their wins, a strong coaching offer will help you do that …
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