4 Ways To Celebrate Yourself For Completing The End Of The Year
If you’ve never celebrated yourself, especially at the end of the year, this could become a new tradition. You could start doing this with friends, family, or if it feels better solo, do what feels right. However, the purpose is to allow you to see your growth and how far you’ve come.
Celebrating yourself doesn’t have to be big and dramatic. It can be as minimal as treating yourself to matcha or buying yourself something nice. Even simpler, you could acknowledge all that you’ve done and be back in your glory. The beauty about this celebration is it’s yours, therefore you can do as you please.
Below you’ll find four examples to celebrate yourself, which is merely a soundboard.
1. Take A Look At Your Year In Review
Journaling is a great way to monitor progress. Social media is also a platform, although it doesn’t depict life in a realistic way; those pictures don’t show reality, however, if it’s your profile, you know what lies behind those eyes and that smile.
Look back and review how you outgrew people, bettered your circumstances, be it moving into a new place, getting a promotion, or a new job, or any form of elevation. Change is essential in life and growth, and so is discomfort, as it often allows you to see who you really are.
2. Acknowledge Your Growth
Whether you’ve made two steps forward or one, you are better than where you started. Don’t be afraid to celebrate the small victories; they matter, too. Start by giving yourself credit for trying. Sometimes trying can be harder than giving up. You may not be where you want to be, but you aren’t where you were last year, and that’s an accomplishment.
3. Applaud Yourself For Not Giving Up
Giving up is tricky because if you give up, there is guilt that comes along; contrarily, giving up means you have to do a reset. For example, if you give up on a job, you have to start from zero all over again. There’s the process of looking for a job, finding one, applying, hoping they call, going to an interview, getting hired, going through training, and working. These steps are pivotal, and finding a job can be a job in itself. Don’t doubt yourself. You’re still standing. Clap for yourself.
4. Take Note That Your Struggles Didn’t Break You
Beginning at the top of 2025, look at all you’ve experienced and how you handled it. Your struggles didn’t define you, and they definitely didn’t defeat you. You survived 2025! Revel in your greatness, knowing that you can overcome anything. Challenges are inevitable, but if you withstand the storm, you’ll find that you come out on the other side a mightier person.
