Remembering to Celebrate

I have not done a great job of celebrating my successes in goal setting since we started 2 months ago. I think it is because I can become very task oriented and I'm glad to cross it off the list and feel good about it but I don't take time to say "hey that was a product of goalsetting and I did it" I finally took the bike I have been borrowing into the shop, which doesn't seem like a big accomplishment but I had been intending to do it for 2 months. So it felt really good to get that taken care of on Friday and finally cross it off my to-do list. Also getting my bike fixed up got me to go for a ride on Sunday because the weather was so nice and the bike was ready to go. I was thinking this morning about writing a blog and wasn't sure what I was going to blog about that was when I decided to focus on something I have accomplished. But as I have been thinking about this blog I started thinking about what a friend told me 2 1/2 years ago when we were working at camp together. She was talking about her faith and about how we so frequently are focused on the "big events" or big moments of our faith. Which is interesting because big moments are such a small percentage of our life. She was trying to focus on living in faith through the mundane, because the largest percentage of our time is the day to day stuff. I have been thinking about this and how it applies to faith as well as success and goalsetting. It is the small decisions in life that I have struggled greatly with and at times of kept me from attaining different things over a longer period of time. It is something that is so easy to overlook because the are decisions we make so often but if I want to be healthy that small decision of eating meal after the bar or not made many times has a real impact. I think this idea of being intentional in the mundane is what I have been striving for. I want to increase the amount of good small decisions I make and the consistency with which I make a decision witht he view of "spending vs investing". I want to be someone who has an investing mindset because I think that its one of the keys to success and being a good steward of your personal resources. Consistency is what really develops something. Being consistent over a long period of time will develop whatever you are being consistent doing and who you as a person are. If I am consistently nice for a long period of time I will be a nice person because it will become part of who I am. I will be intentional with the rest of my day and be focused on making small decisions that are in line with my larger purpose.