I Thank Myself. Publicly. Often. On Purpose.
Your flowers are earned. Receiving them is the work.
❤️ I heart my own posts. ❤️
Every time.
This is how I close loops.
This is how I let effort land.
This is how I stay inside myself while building something visible.
In 2024, Niecy Nash-Betts accepted an Emmy and went viral for thanking herself.
The moment created a massive buzz because self-recognition, particularly when spoken out loud by a woman, still unsettles the social order.
Many people felt empowered watching her claim her efforts and achievements so boldly. Others reached for the language of humility to contain their discomfort.
She knew what it took.
The long apprenticeship.
The rooms she entered prepared.
The rooms she left changed.
The devotion required to keep going when momentum had not caught up yet.
She honored the full ledger.
That moment revealed something many leaders are missing language for.
Recognition is integration.
Without it, success keeps floating just out of reach of the body.
This is why, in one of my meditations, I invite people into an experience of being applauded.
And recently, I practiced this in real time.
During a retreat, I took the final minutes of my spotlight and asked for my flowers.
I stood still and allowed myself to receive.
Compliment after compliment arrived from people I respect deeply.
Reflections that saw the work.
The leadership.
The integrity.
The way I hold rooms.
The way I make decisions.
I stayed present.
I let the words land.
I felt the recognition move through my body instead of glancing off it.
That moment clarified something essential.
Applause completes a circuit most of us were trained to leave open.
This is also why, in that meditation, people stand still.
They breathe.
They let the sound arrive.
They allow their nervous system to register: the work has been seen, the effort has been received, the becoming has been witnessed.
People cry there.
Their shoulders drop.
Their breath deepens.
Because acknowledgment settles the body.
When achievement never gets recognized internally, the system stays vigilant.
Always scanning.
Always striving.
Always waiting for enough to arrive.
Self-recognition tells the body it can rest inside what it has built.
It allows success to be occupied.
When I heart my own work, I am offering myself that applause in miniature.
I am marking completion.
I am honoring effort in real time.
This is leadership infrastructure.
Leaders who practice acknowledgment move differently.
They build businesses that feel structurally sound because the builder remains present.
Capacity expands when recognition is allowed to land.
The way you receive one thing reflects how you receive everything.
If applause feels hard to hold, money often does too.
If compliments slide off quickly, income tends to do the same.
If acknowledgment creates contraction, asking for and receiving support can register as failure.
Receiving is a skill.
Holding is a capacity.
Money responds to the same internal structures as praise.
It asks: can you stay present while value moves toward you?
Can you let it land without deflection, justification, or urgency to give it away?
This is why acknowledgment work matters far beyond the moment.
It trains the nervous system to remain open, grounded, and available as more arrives.
When you practice receiving recognition, you are rehearsing for prosperity.
The meditation below invites you to receive your flowers, feel the applause land, and practice holding what you’ve earned.
🔥 Daily Affirmation
I receive acknowledgment as fuel, grounding, and truth.
I hold praise, support, and prosperity with steadiness and strength.
I expand my capacity to receive what honors my effort and devotion.
I stand inside my success and let it stay.
PS: Profit is Protest and so is receiving. Each time you let value land, whether as applause or income, you reinforce a world where your labor, capacity, and impact are already accounted for.