Have you ever wondered why so many of us wait for other people to help us feel proud of ourselves?
I want to help you learn more about pride.
What it really is and how you can create pride for yourself, starting right now.
If you’re an accountant, a business owner, or any high-stress professional who’s used to chasing approvals from others, it’s time to start creating pride on purpose and be proud of yourself.
You don’t need others to be proud of yourself, and I’ll walk you through a simple framework you can try this week to start feeling proud.
Not someday, but today.
Have you ever finished a long day of reconciliations, closed the prior month’s financials, or survived a brutal audit and thought, “When is someone going to tell me I did a good job?”
You want someone to say, “Nice work,” or for a boss or partner to finally notice that you stayed late 20 nights in a row.
You want that external stamp of approval.
I’m proud of you.
But waiting for other people to help you feel proud is like waiting for the weather to decide your week.
It might happen, sometimes, but you give up control of your inner self when you outsource your pride.
The good news is that pride is not a prize others give you.
Pride is a feeling you generate.
And once you realize that, everything changes.
Let me explain.
Your thoughts create your feelings, your feelings drive your actions, and your actions produce your results.
Pride follows that same process.
When you think “I did a really good job,” you feel proud.
Feeling proud makes you act in ways that reinforce your competence.
You volunteer for a bigger project, you decide to mentor someone, or you put a process improvement in place.
Those actions create results people can see.
But the key is the thought you were thinking.
You can choose the thought.
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