Momma's- Celebrate the Small Wins
My four year old has a diet that has consisted primarily of cheese cheese sandwiches (cold not grilled), fruit and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I could not get him to eat anything else. I struggled with getting protein into this child and it was starting to make me question my motherhood. Yes I realize I'm being a little dramatic. After reflecting some I realized that I was making a special dinner for this child because I allowed him to "pick his poison". I decided I had had enough of making separate meals and told this mini dictator that I he was eating what mommy ate. Low and behold, he ate dinner, didn't go to bed hungry and I felt like parent of the year because he ate grilled chicken and green beans instead of mac and cheese.
Success!!! Everyone defines it differently. I have long been one of those who only felt accomplished when big ticket successes were achieved, but lately I have been finding joy in the small wins. Child sleeps in his own bed-WIN. I work out int he morning 4 days in a week- WIN. I allow myself to be vulnerable with someone (even if it backfires)-WIN. I go an entire week without stressing about steaming my carpets- WIN WIN WIN!!! These little things are becoming so important and are a basis for allowing myself grace when I fail. Overall success is a culmination of the little wins in life. When you add them all up and take a look back, you will see that every big success was the result of a bunch of small wins and losses.
This is helpful as I go through this dissertation process. I have spent 8 weeks on 20 pages. I have written 76 pages total but I have only gotten to the 20 in revision these past 2 months. This was so frustrating to me, but I have to break it down into the small wins. At the beginning of these 2 months I had a MESS of a chapter one. Nothing aligned and I basically had 76 pages of rubbish. But through 8 weeks of paragraph by paragraph re-writes, I have 20 pages that are worth a little something. Granted this isn't even all of Chapter One, but these small wins mean progress. Even though it is't the BIG WIN I was hoping for.
Small wins make all of the difference. Overcoming embarrassing situations, Giving yourself grace with a parenting fail or even forgiving yourself for not making a goal deadline, all of these small wins add up to huge discoveries and are the building blocks to greatness.
Success!!! Everyone defines it differently. I have long been one of those who only felt accomplished when big ticket successes were achieved, but lately I have been finding joy in the small wins. Child sleeps in his own bed-WIN. I work out int he morning 4 days in a week- WIN. I allow myself to be vulnerable with someone (even if it backfires)-WIN. I go an entire week without stressing about steaming my carpets- WIN WIN WIN!!! These little things are becoming so important and are a basis for allowing myself grace when I fail. Overall success is a culmination of the little wins in life. When you add them all up and take a look back, you will see that every big success was the result of a bunch of small wins and losses.
This is helpful as I go through this dissertation process. I have spent 8 weeks on 20 pages. I have written 76 pages total but I have only gotten to the 20 in revision these past 2 months. This was so frustrating to me, but I have to break it down into the small wins. At the beginning of these 2 months I had a MESS of a chapter one. Nothing aligned and I basically had 76 pages of rubbish. But through 8 weeks of paragraph by paragraph re-writes, I have 20 pages that are worth a little something. Granted this isn't even all of Chapter One, but these small wins mean progress. Even though it is't the BIG WIN I was hoping for.
Small wins make all of the difference. Overcoming embarrassing situations, Giving yourself grace with a parenting fail or even forgiving yourself for not making a goal deadline, all of these small wins add up to huge discoveries and are the building blocks to greatness.
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