No-fuss anxiety tips #20

Celebrate the mini wins!

Here we are at our final blog in this 20-article series on anxiety. If you’ve missed any of the previous articles, there’s a link to each of the blogs at the bottom of this article. The series has provided simple, no-nonsense tips and techniques for managing anxiety and finding greater ease in your life. Each of the posts draw on therapeutic thinking from a range of psychological and psychotherapy theories. 

What these tips won’t do is explore the origins and purpose of anxiety for you – this type of deeper exploration is what therapy offers. That said, having strategies for managing anxiety is a great place to start.  Each article is designed to be a quick read, and with practical implementable ideas.  Let’s dive into our final tip, then: celebrate the mini wins. 

How often do you take time to say “well done, me”?  Are you making space to note, honour and acknowledge the small wins, the mini-victories? If not, you might be missing a trick when it comes to getting a handle on your anxiety.

Allowing yourself to recognise and celebrate small milestones towards a larger goal provides a positive boost to self-esteem and helps to break a large task into smaller chunks. Each small milestone becomes a mini victory that’s worth celebrating. After all, you are likely to be great at criticising yourself – so redress the balance with a bit of self-recognition.

Getting to end of this anxiety series is an achievement! For me, and you, too!  So, well done us!

Celebrate your mini-wins

An anitdote to self-criticism

I hope there’s been plenty to support you with anxiety from the previous articles. I’ve included links below to all 20 of the blogs in this series. Do look the others up if you’ve missed any.

Check out the previous blogs in this no-fuss anxiety series:

• #1 Managing Anxiety: Know your nemesis

• #2 Managing Anxiety: Breathe anxiety away

• #3 Managing Anxiety: Be kind to yourself

• #4 Managing Anxiety: Movement matters

• #5 Managing Anxiety: Remember you ARE good enough   

• #6 Managing Anxiety: Make use of your ANS

• #7 Managing Anxiety: Time your worries

• #8 Managing Anxiety: Use the power of “and….”

• #9 Managing Anxiety: Quit trying to “cure” your anxiety 

• #10 Managing Anxiety: Audit your strengths to deal with stress

• #11 Managing Anxiety: Connect with cuddles

• #12 Managing Anxiety: Have a good laugh

• #13 Managing Anxiety: Value your values

• #14 Managing Anxiety: Take control

• #15 Managing Anxiety: Whose responsibility is it?

• #16 Managing Anxiety: Think lifestyle

• #17 Managing Anxiety: Embrace mistakes

• #18 Managing Anxiety: Take a hard edit of your to-do-list

• #19 Managing Anxiety: See the big picture

• #20 Managing Anxiety: Celebrate the mini wins

  Get in touch

If you’d like to talk through how counselling can help you with a deeper exploration of your anxiety, do make contact with me, Claire Law.

We can talk through how online counselling or face-to-face counselling at my therapy room in Preston can help manage your anxiety.