Recognizing Yourself

Posted to the YouTube channel. The brief description:

Yeah, yeah: there are risks attendant on doing 'too much' self-congratulation and not enough genuine achievement to back it up. I'm talking to all of us ... and we are LEGION, believe me ... who don't give ourselves credit enough.

The caption transcript:

Do you ever reward, or even just recognize, yourself ... when you accomplish something that you thought was important, or that you wanted to do? Do you ever just stop and notice that "Oh! I did that!"

Doesn't have to be a big reward; it doesn't even have to be for a big achievement or accomplishment. What I've noticed over the years is that it's very easy for my own hard work to go in one ear and out the other, if I don't step back when I finish something and say ,"Yeah. Yeah! You got that done. Good for you." And especially when things are not easy for me, that's when it matters all the more. I find that there's a feedback loop. If I just stop and recognize, and give myself a little bit of a thumbs up, I'm more likely to keep going.

The full video clip: https://youtu.be/ZgDGXbqHxHc