Little Victories

It’s easy to get absorbed in striving for big goals and noticing ‘significant’ accomplishments. But smaller victories are just as important. Celebrating these can help you cultivate motivation, joy, and gratitude - not just in occasional moments, but every day. And the good news is: once you start paying attention, smaller victories are everywhere. Finding excitement and pride in the ‘ordinary’ holds so much value.

Little Victories Prompt

Materials: paper, pen, scissors, a container of some kind.

Cut your paper into small pieces (a couple of inches each). On each one, write a victory (an achievement). The aim is to go as small as possible, at least to start - but they may not be so small once you acknowledge them! They might include: finishing an essay, donating that bag of old clothes, calling a friend on their birthday.

If you like, do this with a friend: share and appreciate your victories together. Notice how it feels to be witnessed and to acknowledge another person’s ‘small’ victories in our striving world.

Once you’ve written and read over as many as you can, put your victories in a container to add to or read over whenever you like. Decorate the jar - or the victories - for more fun.