For most of my life, I have been a cheerleader. I have pictures of me in a cheerleader uniform from the age of two until I was in my twenties. I had an awesome cheer career, I won several nationals titles individually and on different teams. Post cheer life, I have kept the same cheer attitude. I will cheer on anyone in anything. Whether it's me cheering on my kids, hyping them up for something, or my friends and family to be the best they can be. I am my husband's biggest cheerleader as he goes after his doctoral and other goals, but honestly, if I never cheered for him he is so confident in who is his he doesn't need my praise. I admire that so much about him. He knows about his abilities and carries the confidence with it. That is what I have been lacking my own personal cheer section. I truly love to see the people in my life win, but somewhere along the way, I became too comfortable in that role that I forgot to cheer for myself.
It is time for me to get in the game to become my own star player, and cheer section. I won't completely stop cheering for everybody else, but I can make sure I cheer for myself too. It has become so easy to dismiss my small wins, and not think of them as a big deal. If it were someone else, I would cheer just as loudly for a small win as I would if they had just won the national title. I don't know when I become so complacent with myself that I forgot that you don't just cheer when your team is winning and you cheer when they lose too. It like the other team is on their 4th down and 1 yard to go you want your defense to hold tight so you start chanting "DE- FENSE clap, clap, DE-FENSE clap, clap!!" Everybody in the arena is so loud shouting the cheer that the team is unable to move the ball and your team gets the ball on downs. Even though your team is still down by 7 that can be a pivotal moment in a game. Your team goes on to win the game because the momentum never dies down after that play! This same thing happens in our lives too. When you feel down and out, but you suddenly hollering to yourself "DE-FENSE clap clap" doing all the things that calm your anxiety, and the rest of your day goes smoothly sailing. Momentum. I had lost it, but I am so glad it is back. All it took was a little therapy and a lot of work. All it took was me yelling DEFENSE for myself to pick up the phone to call a therapist to switch the momentum in my favor to win this game called life. You can be your biggest cheerleader too. Don't forget to call a chant for you to help you in those winning or losing moments to switch that momentum or to keep it going.
One Love,
D'Que
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