You’re Winning Every Single Day — It’d Be a Tragedy If You Failed to Notice
You get more of what you focus on, so why shouldn’t you focus on winning?!?
“You’re experiencing wins every single day, most of which go unnoticed or unacknowledged. Celebrating your wins gives you jet fuel to keep going and extends a token of appreciation for how far you’ve come, instead of focusing on what’s missing.”
-Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule
I’ve written before about how good things happen to almost everyone on Earth at least once a day, and how, if you can find it within yourself to be happy whenever something good happens to someone else, then you’ve basically found more than 7,000,000,000 reasons to be happy.
This is powerful stuff, but it also applies to you, specifically, in the sense that we are often blind to how often we’re “winning” in life.
We focus on what went wrong, rather than what went well today.
That last set was tough, but we put forth our max effort and got through it. We took the time to have that tough conversation, and we made some real progress repairing that relationship. We went above and beyond earlier when that customer wasn’t expecting it.
If we’re paying attention, we can find dozens of moments like this — large and small — peppered…
