Productivity Tips - Taking Credit with Yourself

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Do you take credit for the small steps you take toward a goal? Or do you blow them off as being too little to matter?

Taking credit for incremental steps along the way toward a goal is an ESSENTIAL requirement for actually reaching your goal. Here’s why, in the words of Robert Alter, in his powerful book, How Long Til My Soul Gets it Right:

“The journey of change is like a steep stairway with many steps — each one of them difficult to take — and your legs need strength and spring to climb from one to the other. The strength and spring for the next step come, in part, from the inward acknowledgement, appreciation, congratulation, and celebration you give yourself for the step you just climbed. If after climbing to one step you shrug, smirk, wave it off, or blow it off, not permitting yourself to bask in the light of your own self-praise, it is harder to take the next step.”

My clients often have great resistance to taking credit for their small steps. When it comes to self-acknowledgement, they have kept themselves on a starvation diet for years. And have not reached some of their goals as a result!

Really and truly, when you begin to take credit for the small steps along the way, something shifts and opens. Some part of you begins to get nourished, finally. And with that nourishment comes the energy and endurance to go the distance and reach the goal.

The “taking credit” I am talking about here is a private and intimate matter. I’m not suggesting that you take out a full page ad in the New York Times that says, “I lost a pound.” But I am encouraging you to take a full minute, make real contact with your wise inner self, and say, “This week, you were more careful about what you put into your mouth. You got yourself to the gym twice. And you lost another pound. Good work!”

This will have more impact on your success than anything else you can do.

Copyright 2006 Sharon Teitelbaum. All rights reserved.

Sharon Teitelbaum, author of “Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: Restoring Work-Life Balance,” Master Certified Coach, and motivational speaker, helps high achievers re-claim their work-life balance. Her interactive coaching process provides a powerful catalyst towards greater career and life satisfaction. Sharon’s work has been featured in national publications including The New York Times, Forbes.com, and Working Mother Magazine. Visit Sharon’s website at http://www.stcoach.com and subscribe to “Strategies of Change” to receive practical tips for work-life success.

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