Write Down Your Wins

 From my personal journal on April 15, 2024:

If clouds of doubt blow into your mind, pushed by a cultivated atmosphere of doing more and churning through tasks the way a full-speed train chews up miles every minute for hours on end, your journal may well be the sunbeam that breaks through, spotlighting what you did finish, the progress you achieved, the relationships that are showing signs of exciting shifts. 

Even if it looks more like a ledger than a journal, with lists of items checked, crossed, circled, chunked, and underlined -- every leader that makes a point to till the soil shared by their team, to nurture everyone walking the path toward personal and professional growth, deserves to be there when the buds start to poke through the ground and the blossoms begin to open. 

Remind yourself that you've earned many victories today, last week, and all along this year. Embrace and rejoice in those wins. They are real. That side of the ledger deserves to shine, too.