Owning Your Achievements

I was having a short chat with a friend of mine last night. It made me realise something.

How willing are you to blow your own trumpet? To shout it from the rooftops? Does it just feel wrong to run up to people like a kid saying “look, look what I did, aren’t I great!!” I don’t know if that reluctance to celebrate your achievements is especially strong in people with mental illness like me, I know I tend to fixate on the 5 percent I did wrong rather than the 95 percent I did well.

But let’s face it, 95 per cent in an exam would have us all jumping for joy eh? I resolve to own my achievements from now on and not care if I seem like an over exuberant toddler. I can do stuff and I can do it well. Here’s five to get me started:

I’m a fantastic cook. I spend my life learning to make more and more tasty food.

I have dropped 4 dress sizes since August 09 ( I’m proudly wandering around in denim hot pants and a strappy vest today)

I can cycle some pretty large distances. That takes some practice, stamina and determination.

I give everything my best shot, running at it head on and never allow fear to stop me.

I’m smart and observant too.

What’s great about you? If I can do it you can too, tell me what you have achieved. I genuinely want to know. Please? (you know, even half way through this post I could hear that little voice telling me not to be so big headed, or that other people might disagree and shout at me or say mean things but I am still going to press that publish button)

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