When your hard work pays off

When something good happens, how do you respond?

Do you take it in, knowing it’s meant for you, or do you wave it away?

It’s important to RECEIVE what you’re given, even compliments, as the gifts they are. Meant for you because you deserve them.

When you receive, it welcomes more goodness into your life. It sends the message that you’re ready.

And you want to be ready, don’t you? You wouldn’t be trying so hard, working with such focus, if you didn’t want to be recognized, valued and appreciated for what you uniquely bring.

So when the acknowledgement of your work comes through, make sure you take it in.

“This means a lot to me,” are the words I practiced in my car on the way to receiving a Hudson Valley Magazine Women in Business Award last week.

I needed a way to take in what was being given and be present for it. Present for myself.

After all, the award does mean a lot! It celebrates the Hudson Valley Women in Business community I founded five years ago with nearly 3,000 womxn doing business differently, and it’s also proof that it’s possible to do what you love and be recognized for it.

It’s possible to do what YOU love and be recognized for it, too.

Chances are your contributions are already being recognized by others. Someone, I bet a number of people, are thanking you, complimenting you, raving about you. Make sure you let it in.

How can you receive more openly in your own life?

I highly recommend the response: “this means a lot to me.”