How good are you at CELEBRATING OTHER PEOPLE’S SUCCESSES? When a colleague, a friend, a family member has been promoted or landed a new job or received a bonus or lots of praise for something they did – do you celebrate them? Do you congratulate them and show you are happy for them?
When you are genuinely happy for others’ successes, people will feel it and appreciate you for that. Genuine appreciation for others’ successes is beautiful.
By acknowledging others’ successes you not only bring positivity to those you appreciate and all around you. YOU ALSO CREATE MORE SUCCESS FOR YOURSELF! Because what you focus on expands. As you focus on others’ successes, you will be also attracting more things to feel successful about in your own life. FOCUS ON SUCCESS CREATES MORE SUCCESS – a total Win-Win!
Let’s also look at the other side of the coin. What if you do not always feel like celebrating when you see someone succeed? Or what if the people around you do not seem to be genuinely happy for your success the way you want them to? Why so?
The truth is that other peoples’ success can evoke all kinds of FEELINGS INSIDE of us. Feelings that just not feel good and are not comfortable. It can be the feeling of not being good enough, being less than, being not worthy, insecure, envious or “Why not me?”
What many do when faced with these “negative” feelings is just pretend that these feeling are not there or ignore them. Unfortunately, this is not a good way to deal with uncomfortable feelings at all! You cannot get free from the feeling by just neglecting it or pushing it aside!
The best thing to do in such situations is to stop, give yourself some space and turn inwards. Notice and get aware of what it is that you are feeling Accept the feeling, embrace it. Do not judge yourself, stay with the feeling and be kind and loving to yourself.
When you feel and embrace your feelings, they will loosen their grip over you and you will feel more free, more clear, more at peace. These feelings are a part of you and your story. They have been activated in you for a reason and have a message for you. Ask yourself:
– WHAT IS IT THAT I AM MISSING IN MY LIFE? WHAT IS IT THAT I DO WANT?
When you do this, you are being very SMART. Because you are using your FEELINGS AS YOUR GUIDANCE SYSTEM about what it is that you are missing and WANT TO HAVE IN YOUR OWN LIFE.
The truth is that you DO WANT to celebrate the success you see around you AND you also DO WANT to be happy and successful too!
And do not worry – THERE IS ENOUGH SUCCESS FOR EVERYONE! For them and for you. Success is not like a big delicious pie with a certain amount of pieces where some can get a piece and some not, and you should better hurry up because otherwise you will miss it.
There is enough success for everyone. And THE MORE YOU FOCUS ON SUCCESS, THE MORE SUCCESS YOU WILL CREATE. Both for those around you and for yourself.
So go ahead and celebrate success wherever you see it! Celebrate the success you see and watch your own success expand!
