Celebrate Your Victories

Hi everyone, and welcome to Medical Mondays!

I don’t know how it goes in other cultures, but for me, there has always been some crazy major emphasis on humility. You show people your abilities and qualities through your actions and the work that you do, not what you say. Your actions and your hard work speak for themselves.

Case in point, I am pretty darn terrible at “selling myself,” and I rarely talk about my accomplishments unless I’m directly asked about them. I think my interviews went well because I was able to have engaging + interesting conversations with my interviewers (and because they actually took the time to look through my file!). :O My parents are very much the same way.

But…

As important as it is to be able to discover your flaws so that you can work to continually improve, it’s equally important to celebrate your victories as well, and to recognize your strengths!

I don’t make resolutions every year, but if you’ve ever noticed the 101 in 1001 (2014-2016) hanging out under my “About” tab, this was a list of goals that I wanted to be able to accomplish in ~2.75 years!

I grouped them under the following categories:

• Health + Fitness: Some of these got massively derailed due to traveling all across the country for rotations and interview season…plus a broken hand. (What can I say? Twas an eventful final year of med school…)
• Giving: I managed to knock both of these out! Now that I finally have an income (at long last), I can actually donate too! :]
• Academics/Career: I managed to accomplish all the ones I had under here! <3!!!
• Budget/Finances: I still need to massively declutter my life and donate and/or sell everything I don’t want/need anymore. That one ends up on my list every time I do one of these 101 in 1001 lists…
• Learning/Hobbies: I need to think up some new ones for this that’ll work in my schedule!
• Travel: I managed to do most of these (yay!), and now that I can actually schedule real vacations, that’ll help a lot with being able to plan other trips!
• Family/Friends: I got to see my family/friends more in the past year (well, at least the first 4 months-ish of the year) than I did in the last 8 years combined. <3 I’ll consider that a win on all levels.
• Purchases: Should I get myself Tales of Phantasia to complete this list!?
• Food/Blog-Related: I tend to always be overly ambitious with my blog because it’s the only way I really ever get anything done. I didn’t manage to accomplish all the things on here, but I gave it a good run!
• Miscellanous/Fun: Time to dream up new random things to do! :P

• What victory in your life would you celebrate? It can be a post you’ve written, a recipe you’ve made, a new PR, makin’ it through a rough week…share it with me in the comments! :]
• What would you put in your 101 in 1001 list? What categories would you have? (My new one for 2016-2019 is coming out this Saturday!