Celebrate Every Step
It’s great if you can focus ahead on what you’re trying to achieve. But don’t forget to look back and see how far you’ve come. Every time you reach any milepost along the way, you need to recognize the fact, rejoice, celebrate, enjoy your success, bask in the achievement. It may only be one step towards your ultimate goal but, hey, it’s one more step toward your ultimate goal. That’s a good thing! It’s worth enjoying.
Think of it this way. If you’ve maybe broken your aim down into chunks, and then broken each chunk down into goals along the way, you want to reach those milestones. So when you do, you’ve got what you want. OK not all of it—not the end objective—but you’ve got as much as you can get at this stage, and you’re ...
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