What is it about looking for and celebrating small wins, that can make a difference to your life
– whether personal or work life?
It all sounds a bit hippy-like doesn’t it? A bit tree huggy.
But it’s really not. There are so many positives to celebrating life’s small wins – on so many levels.
For a start, there are so many things in life that we just can’t control – or even influence.
Securing a win of any sort can sometimes just feel – too remote.
So, by looking for, recognising and celebrating the small wins, we can begin to build up positivity credit in our day. And I don’t mean that happy-clappy, perma-smiley positivity. The kind of toxic positivity that gets right under everyone’s skin, causing distress to anyone in the same postcode. Positivity credit is more about awareness: awareness that good stuff happens – and more often than we’re wired to acknowledge.
The compound effect of this positivity credit, inevitably leads to an under armour being formed. A resilience to help cushion against life’s micro setbacks and irritations. It’s impossible for it not to happen. We’ve just got to remember to feed our positivity credit – to pay into it.
And it’s well proven that being more positive and resilient allows for clearer, more rational thinking when challenges hit or the friction of fear shows up – whether in our work or personal lives.
And let’s face it, our emotions don’t make a distinction between the two. They’ll happily crash through both.
And if you’re unsure what a small win looks like, you can start with waking up!
That’s a good one. That’s a start. Waking up. It doesn’t happen for everyone.
Some people had plans for this evening – plans which didn’t get past this morning.
Sometimes a win could be as simple as something NOT going wrong – that’s definitely a win, isn’t it?
A work win for me today was a client approving a first draft of copy I’d written, when I’d allocated time for revises. Getting time back – what a win!
And when you start looking for these wins, you start finding them.
So, my challenge to you, is for the next 48 hours, start looking for and celebrating your small wins. And when you get one, actually say out loud to yourself “that’s a win!” Again – not so loud so as to cause alarm. You don’t want to take a reflex right hook to the face. Just loud enough so that it’s not the voice in your head saying it.
Saying it out loud actually makes a difference. Writing your wins down takes it off the scale – but let’s not run before we can walk!
Just recognising your wins, and saying so, will help the clarity of your thinking and how you feel about your day.
Just try it for 48 hrs – you’ll notice the difference. I guarantee it. And at the end of those 48 hours, just tot those wins up. You’ll be amazed. You’ll feel happier and not one person will have hit you.
Well – not for celebrating a small win, anyway.
That’s it for today – happy WIN hunting – I’d love to know how you get on!
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