Short-term accomplishments

So much of what blocks us is our forward-thinking brain paired with our notoriously unreliable internal time clock. I don’t know about you but I wake up in the morning with grand dreams for my day. Today, I will create an online course for my school! Today, I will launch a new initiative! I rarely wake up and think: today, I will proudly sign up for a new domain name and change my email address. Yet that and one hundred other small tasks are the fodder of these larger dreams I have for my life. Every time I skip the small stuff (yes, I know don’t sweat the small stuff. But you do actually have to DO the small stuff) it is like pulling out a brick from the foundation I am standing on. I can’t “brand” myself in one day. And the more I read about branding, the more frustrated I get that people don’t talk about the time it takes to do all these small steps. But I digress. The point of this blog post is to say: short-term things matter. Small things matter. If you don’t give yourself praise for all of those small tasks, it is like looking at a jigsaw puzzle and expecting it to be done by blinking your eyes. Focus on the small. Appreciate the short-term. It all builds to a bigger picture that you can only see after some time has gone by.