Celebrate your ‘small
wins.’
Robin Sharma-Five small wins a day equals 1850 wins in 12
months. Consistency breeds mastery.
Achievement is nothing but a series of small wins. There is
nothing as sweet as knowing that you have made some progress every day. It is
important to have many small wins and celebrate them in between the milestone
wins. Small wins show you that you have what it takes to get this done and
dusted. They go a long way in building the requisite momentum for bigger stuff
that’s on the horizon. Nobody wants to stop when they are winning. The drive to
go on and on and on to the next one is so huge when you are winning. One way to
do this is to identify small wins in your life every day and celebrate them.
This requires reflection and some journaling. Journals are very powerful tools
for tracking your progress. When it is recorded, it is possible to look back
and see how much distance you have covered. At the end of every day it would
help you to look back at what you have accomplished that day and be grateful
for it.
When you think only in terms of milestone wins, you might
have fewer moments to celebrate and as a result get discouraged along the way.
With a series of small wins celebrated daily or almost daily, you wake up the
following day looking forward to what is going to happen. You do not expect a
day to go by without a win of some sort. The more you celebrate, the more your
eyes are opened up to more ground to cover on your way forward. According to
James Clear in his wonderful book Atomic Habits, whatever gets rewarded gets
repeated. If you want to build on your wins, the best course of action is to
celebrate them. If you are working with a team and you experience some sort of
win, it is expedient that you take time to celebrate your achievements. This
will build a winning culture within your team. The more you celebrate the more
wins you are guaranteed to receive. If you shy away from celebrating, people
get to a point where they no longer care about trying to win. When exceptional
performance goes unrecognized, the drive to excel dies with it.
Celebrations do not have to be an elaborate affair.
Sometimes a high five, or a part on the back is celebration enough. At other
times, you can work by setting a goal for yourself and the reward you will give
yourself if you achieve that goal by the end of the day. This has a way of
keeping the momentum building day after day. Your rewards should be
commensurate with your achievement and it should be something you treasure
enough to want to have by the end of the day. Seeing as many people will not
celebrate you, you better get into the habit of celebrating yourself more often
than you do currently. The more you celebrate yourself, the easier it becomes
to celebrate others in your team. Don’t be mean and unappreciative of your
efforts or the efforts of others. Make a habit of finding out how different
members on your team like to celebrate. Give everyone what works well for them.
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