Stop Complaining About How Little Claps You Earned

and just write another story.

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Last night, I published an article and woke up to see I’d only earned five claps on it. (Now, it has ninety-five.)

I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t disappointed. I think it’s an important story, and I wish more people would read it. However, I’m not going to let that disappointment simmer for more than a minute.

I don’t exactly know why that article didn’t do well, or why it wasn’t curated, but I do know I can’t waste any time freaking out about it. I have some suspicions, and those are good enough for me.

I’m taking and rolling with those mistakes and trying to do better today.

You can’t focus on the bad

I could sit here, burning with anger about such little claps on a post, but what good is that going to do me? I’ll only waste time and make myself feel bad.

There’s never a point in swimming in your “failure” over little claps, not getting curated, or receiving fewer views than last time. You screwed up — there’s nothing more to it.

The only reason you can spend time in your mistake is to reflect on it. What was the mistake? What did you learn…