I welcome you to my blog. The mistake we humans make is to feel little wins don't call for celebrations too; we feel or think only big wins are worth celebrating, and when the big wins are not forthcoming, we become sad and have no regard for the little wins that are coming our way. People fail to understand that celebrating your small wins is how you make room for big wins. Every win matters on this journey of life. Without the small wins coming to lay a foundation for the big wins, where do you think the big wins will stand when they come? Our small wins also count as progress; a win does not have to be huge before it is declared progress or counted as progress.
For the fact that we do not acknowledge our small wins, that is why many people feel like they are not making progress, whereas they are making just enough progress, but since they want it big or are in a competition with others, they fail to see how much progress they are making. Many people just want to skip the small wins and get to the big wins.
When people around us get big wins and all we get are the small wins, we start to ask ourselves questions like, "What am I doing wrong, or when will my time come?" Once we start asking ourselves these questions, we give room for sadness; once sadness has a room, it creates another room for depression, and before you know it, you lose yourself.
Someone that was once known to be a happy person turns into something else, something no one understands anymore, and not even the person in question understands themselves anymore. All that happens because we fail to celebrate our small wins; we disregard small wins and have our eyes focused on the big wins, and while others are winning big and ours is just small, we start feeling like they are doing things right and we are on the wrong path, and we start to curse ourselves and put ourselves in a competition with those who have gone way ahead of us, which results in being under a lot of pressure because we want to catch up.
If you recognize your small wins and put them all together, you'd see reasons to be happy. Competition and comparison are how you kill your joy and completely remove happiness from your life. Always recognize your small wins, no matter how small; avoid competition and comparison; move at your own pace, and you will definitely get to your destination as long as you are putting in the work.
