A Year Worth Celebrating

Warning: Due to the celebratory nature of this blog post there will be an abnormal amount of exclamation points (!). Punctuation police be warned.

A few people in my family will be hitting milestones this year - significant milestones that are cause for significant celebration thus making 2012 a happy year to come!

This got me thinking, what else would be worth celebrating in 2012? Why stop at these two milestones?

So I started a list.

Working quickly I wrote down real events like birthdays and anniversaries, but then, without setting out to, I started listing events I wanted to manifest that would be cause to celebrate.

a work in progress that didn't quite make it to the finish line

I like the message

All of a sudden my list became a mixture of affirmations, visualization and already-existing events worth celebrating. It's visioning and party-planning all wrapped into one! How cool is that?

Here's what I came up with:

  • Mom & Dad's 50th wedding anniversary
  • Mom's birthday - she's hitting a major milestone this year, whoop whoop!
  • my birthday - this is the year, I want a party!
  • my blogging anniversary - 6 years baby!
  • my online shop's first sale
  • my first workshop given
  • my dating, "going steady" and wedding anniversaries with D.
  • Summer
  • other family birthdays
  • my first $1000 earned outside the government
  • my first $10000 earned outside the government
  • D.'s birthday - the big 3-5 (hee!)
  • a family gathering
  • the arrival of our new niece
  • the 5th Squam Art Workshops in New Hampshire and the friendships I've made because of it during the past four years
  • friends and family meeting goals or setting off on new adventures - Cheers to that!
  • the loss of the 12 extra pounds I've been carrying for the past year
  • losing my first 3 lbs
  • Cassie's birthday
  • Sis' first marathon - NYC or not Sis, I think this is the year
  • taking a plane for the first time in nearly 10 years - New Brunswick? New York? Paris?
  • booking my first consultation client
  • the launch of my e-book
  • seeing an article of mine published in a magazine
  • the Winter Solstice
  • Christmas
  • New Year's Eve

Wow. So many potential parties!

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What are YOU going to celebrate in 2012? In addition to what's already on the schedule, are there any events you'd like to manifest that would be cause to celebrate?