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Who Cares About Big Wins? You Need To Celebrate Micro-Progress
Your motivation and happiness are driven by the little things
While I am a woman of Science, I am also a highly superstitious person.
On Friday, my family was driving up to the Colorado mountains from our home. It’s about a two-hour drive, and something we do many winter weekends. It’s a good time for my husband and I to catch up after a busy week. We were talking through a few things. And reluctantly, I mentioned a good thing that had happened. Something that wasn’t big enough to mention when I got the news. But it was a small, incremental win that could lead to a few other small, incremental wins in the future.
I was hesitant to even mention it. As if the words coming out of my mouth would have the power to change the course of things. And as soon as I did speak the words, I started knocking on wood and puh-puh-puh-ing. Like my Jewish grandmothers used to do to ward off the Evil Eye.
We are often reluctant to mention the small wins. Sometimes we don’t even stop and notice them at all. The small wins in our lives can show up more like the absence of a loss. It’s not a win, it’s a relief that nothing bad happened. The work presentation wasn’t a disaster after all. My latest article didn’t disappear into the abyss of the…
