Your Daily Dose of Celebration & Why It Matters!

 I dive deep into the often-overlooked power of self-celebration. I shares a personal story of confronting a one-star review and how it sparked a realization: you can't please everyone, and that's a GOOD thing! Learn why celebrating your daily wins, big and small, is essential for your well-being, and how to ditch the people-pleasing mentality. Get ready to embrace your "not pizza" self and unleash your celebration power! 

Key Takeaways:

• Self-celebration is essential for recognizing your achievements and improving your well-being.
• Daily wins, no matter how small, deserve to be celebrated.
• Embrace your "not pizza" self and stop trying to please everyone.
• Start a "celebration win journal" to track your daily victories.
• Celebrating yourself gives others permission to do the same.

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Music by: Jason and Ashley Scheufler
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Transcript

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Hey friends. Welcome to the Enter Spark podcast. I'm your host, Casey Caton. If you're looking to hear stories of transformation and personal growth, this podcast is for you. My guest and I will be sharing those sparking moments that has changed the mental living a more fulfilling authentic life. I'm so excited for you to hear each unique story. So sit back, relax, and let's get started.

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Hey friend. Welcome back to the Enter Spark podcast. I'm your host, Casey Taton. Today I'm gonna talk about the power of celebration. If you follow me, you know I run an organization doing parties for kids in the hospital, celebrating all kinds of things. They may be going through birthdays, milestones, beating cancer, sunshine bags, they finish a treatment. They've been in the hospital for a while, and they just need a smile. I wanna celebrate these kids. So I love celebrating others and it brings me so much joy. Here's what I really wanna dig into today, the power of celebrating yourself. I actually got called out on this. This is why I'm bringing it up, and I should know. The power of celebrating yourself is truly magical. The reasons why you should celebrate yourself is because if you are not celebrating yourself, you are not giving yourself credit for what you did. We often go through our days and a lot of us have goals. We set these goals and we're like, okay, I'm gonna run a marathon, or this year I'm gonna do this. And we set these really big, long-term goals. But what about all these little milestones along the way? You're honestly doing yourself a disgrace by not celebrating them. I launched a podcast. In June, my trailer went out. And during that time, one of the big things was my mentor said, how are you gonna celebrate yourself when the podcast goes out? What are you gonna do for you? And I was just, I kind of blew it off. And I'm gonna be honest, I didn't do anything right then because, that was also the day that my grandmother had passed away, the evening before. So I didn't celebrate it. I am going to start, I've already started celebrating my daily wins. I'm in coaching programs and I have some of the most powerful mentors, and I wanna tell you what we do. We always do a celebration every time we get on a call. What are you celebrating today? Not what are you celebrating for someone else? Which is also very powerful, and I encourage y'all to keep doing that and cheering each other on, but what are you celebrating for you? What did you do for yourself today that you're like, yes, that was a win today? I am not the best at it, and I actually got on a pod. The other day in one of our, my podcasting pod, we get on these little calls and we do a celebration every time. And I sat there and I was like, wow, I don't have anything to celebrate today. I was like, oh my goodness. Casey, what is wrong with you? You live this life and you have nothing to celebrate. You gotta do parties for kids in the hospital. You gotta do all these things and you bring so much joy to others. You're not celebrating me. I'm not celebrating myself. Something in me didn't find it important to celebrate myself. So I sat on there and I went last and I was like, well, you know, it's been a rough week. I had two family members pass away, and then I also went on to say, I've kind of been in a little funk, and I'm gonna tell you why I wasn't in a funk. I was helping a friend look at her podcast reviews. She didn't know how, couldn't see'em all. And so I was explaining to her how she does, goes and looks at'em and the process. And so. By doing that, I was doing my own, so I could like give her the instructions. And what I realized is I don't look at my podcast reviews. I also don't look at how many downloads I have because I'm doing this podcast for myself, which also means I should be looking. But here's what happened. When I looked, I had a one star review. All these beautiful five. Star reviews, beautiful comments, and there was a one star review and my body shut down and I was like, oh my goodness. And so I sat there I went looking for the comment to see if they left a comment. And really I wanted to know why they gave me a one star review, more for the reason of why did you not like my podcast? So I can improve on that if it's something that I feel relates to me. I mean, some people aren't gonna like my voice. Some people aren't gonna what I put out what I talk about, right? Like not every podcast is for everybody. And then it hit me. I mean, I stayed in that spot for a while, but then it hit me. I have this mentor who says. You are not pizza. Not everyone is going to like you, and that is a good thing and you should celebrate that. And that's all I could think about was then was she's right. She is a very powerful, strong woman who does celebrate herself and talks about it and talks about the importance of it. I'm not just talking birthdays. I'm not just talking big things. I'm talking daily wins, daily celebrations. So after I got over the funk, I realized, you know what? That one star review that I, let shut my body down, put me in this little funk. Which was just me truly caring about people, pleasing everybody, and I wasn't put here to people please everybody. If someone gives me a one star review, usually that reflects on them, so I turned it into a celebration. A celebration of, look what I did. I either one triggered someone. Which has nothing to do with me at all. Or maybe they just didn't like it, which is fine. So thank you Apple podcast for posting my one star review. So I could learn from it and I could learn that I'm not pizza, I was not put down here for everyone to like me, and then I turned it into a celebration because that is huge. From someone who, I'm not gonna say I am a recovering people pleaser. I'm gonna say I'm a work in progress on not caring. Not spending so much time people pleasing, because that's not what I was put down here to do. I was put down here to share my voice and to show up authentically as me. And if I'm doing that and you don't like it, that's not my problem either. So I want to encourage you to start celebrating. Find something to celebrate every single day. These don't have to be big wins. These don't have to be huge things. We're not talking long-term goals like running a marathon or something. We're talking everyday celebrations. Maybe it's today I got outta bed. Maybe it's today you're listening to this podcast, and guess what that means? You're allowing yourself time for yourself. Maybe you went outside today and smelled the fresh air. What are you celebrating? You went to the gym, you read a new book. There are so many ways you can celebrate every single day. Maybe you have kids. Did your kids come home with exciting news? And maybe you should start asking your kids every single day? What are they celebrating? Because I think we often teach our kids. The power of celebration has to be something big. We only celebrate on birthdays and holidays or when they do something. When we should really be celebrating kids every day. If we are intentionally seeking things to celebrate on a daily basis, there are facts that increases your sense of wellbeing and your overall life satisfaction. So if you are finding or creating things to celebrate, even if they are tiny. It is a way of making a good life and living in the moments. A little celebration every day, keeps you fully present. And isn't that our goal to be fully present every day? I mean, you could think man. Today my health was good. I had a good lunch. I gotta talk to a good person. My kid came home and met a new friend. My kid came home and had an inspiring story to tell me about something they learned today. Why are we not celebrating these things when they can make our lives so much better? And why are we not teaching kids to celebrate these things? We so often forget the little steps and every single day with proven facts that bring so much value to our life. It reduces your stress level and improves our overall health and mood, and we're leaving them out. Start putting this into your everyday conversation. I actually started a. Celebration win journal. I don't wanna be the person in my pod that says, Hmm, what am I celebrating? No, I'm gonna celebrate every single day. That means I'm living every single day. It also means when you're celebrating you're self, usually it means you're celebrating others, but people are also going to see you celebrating yourself. That doesn't mean you're cocky or anything like that. It means you're finding the joy. You're finding that you did something well and you're taking the time to notice it, and you're taking the time to be present. There's so much power and celebrating. I'm not gonna lie, I love celebrating in groups too. I go to the gym every morning and we celebrate hitting prs and we celebrate, you know, different competitions people are doing or different training and that's powerful'cause we're celebrating with others. So think of a time that you were in a situation where you celebrated with friends. How did that make you feel? What if we start making it the normal? Let's start celebrating an everyday win. And also let's see how it changes our energy. I think it brings so much more abundance in your life and opens the doors when you're open to celebrating things. You celebrate making money. More money comes in. You celebrate seeing the good in the world. You just keep seeing more good. You can take this on so many levels, but please go start celebrating whatever you're doing today. Maybe it's getting outta bed. Write it down as your win for the day. Today I celebrated that I got outta bed. I took a shower, I went for a walk. I saw the sunshine. I got to connect with people. Maybe it's I got to read a book or do something that I liked, or maybe you're celebrating that you went to work and it was a great day. We are so good at finding the negative and not finding the joy and the gratitude and the abundance in this life. So just start celebrating and then start bringing your kids in it. Start bringing your family into it. Ask them what are they celebrating today? Because when we're celebrating, we're getting excited about something. We're finding the purpose in the moment. We're also not letting that ego kick in and say, Hey, you're not good enough. All the, no, the chitter chatter that the mind brings up, that's not what we're here for. Let's bring that positive energy in our life and stop waiting for the big marathons or the prs. Pick out something every day and stop and celebrate it and start seeing the magic that flows into your life and start feeling it. I challenge you. Go out and start doing your journal, write it down, and then reach out to me. Do it consistently for some days, and then reach out and tell me. Has it bettered your life in any way? You start noticing, and then when you celebrate yourself, you also give others the permission to celebrate them. How powerful is that? Let's normalize celebrating the little steps we do in life, not just the big birthdays. Let's bring the fun to every single day we live. All right, friends, I challenge you to continue celebrating your friends. That's so powerful and there's so much power behind that, but also celebrate your own wins. And fill it in your body and see how much it starts to change your life. I would love to know. Send me a dm, send me a message, reach out to me. Let's celebrate each other as you celebrate yourself. All right, friends, I leave you with that today. As always, go celebrate yourself and let those sparks fly.

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Thank you for tuning into another episode. I hope today's story inspired you to embrace your own journey of growth and change. Remember, transformation isn't always easy, but it's always worth it. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe. Share it with a friend, and leave a review. If you found something that sparked you in this episode and may spark a friend, I encourage you to go share with them. If you have your own story you would like to share, I would love to hear it. So please reach out to me. Until next time, friends, go have some fun and let those sparks lie.