I’m having one of those days where I feel broken. I’ve had to scrap most of my plans for the day because my health is not cooperating. It’s easy to get frustrated when I look at my to do list and realize I just can’t, not right now anyway.
Fortunately, I came across this quote:
Little triumphs are the pennies of self-esteem. — Florence King
Not every day is about big accomplishments. Some days, we have to lower the bar and celebrate the little victories instead. While it’s easy to get frustrated by such slow progress, we still get to add a penny to the jar. Over time, that jar will get full. We just have to keep showing up.
In the meantime, I know things will improve again. I don’t know how or when, only that they will. By lowering my expectations of myself to match my abilities of the moment makes it easier to keep moving forward without wiping out completely. I can hang in there until things get better if I don’t push too hard right now.
My little triumph for today is getting a blog post up on time. What’s yours?
Oh, this was timely. Yesterday I got up at 6.30 and was go-go-go all day until I begrudgingly went to bed at 10. I did all sorts of important creative things, finished a story, cleaned the house, blah blah blah. And when I went to bed, I STILL didn’t feel as if I had done enough. I also need to learn to recognize small triumphs — I mean, I’m the sort of person who picks up pennies from the ground, so you’d think it’d be easy . . .
I also find it hard to give myself credit for little stuff, but the big stuff is just a bunch of little stuff put together, the way a dollar is just 100 pennies. It’s important to set big goals and stretch for them, but it’s also important to see where we’ve been and give ourselves credit for all we’ve done, big and small. I hope you can pick up some pennies today!