How to Feel Proud of What You Accomplished Today

Focus on what you did, not what you didn’t.

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On Monday night, I noticed I hadn’t crossed off two things from my to-do list. Immediately, the guilty and judging feelings for being unproductive rushed in, ready to feed me their negative words.

However, before a sentence that started with “Goddamnit!” could expand, I stopped it in its track by conjuring a phrase with a strong positive impact.

“Be proud of yourself for what you did do.”

Rather than focus on what I hadn’t finished — one item that I could do tomorrow and the other, before next Monday — I thought about what I had accomplished.

The result was freeing because I didn’t feel like shit before I went to bed. I felt proud.

What I didn’t do on Monday:

1. Write an article for Medium that I’d upload on Tuesday
2. Create a journal aesthetic featured image for my blog (which takes about an hour and a half)

What I did do on Monday:

1. I started a publication (The Brave Writer)

In the morning, I read about Medium publications and figured I could start one during the week.