Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to take time to recognize and celebrate
Speaker 2: your own growth. What can you do now that you
Speaker 2: couldn't do.
Speaker 1: A year ago? When you expand the time frame from
Speaker 1: day to day, progress might be more apparent than it
Speaker 1: is in the moment. As kids hit the end of
Speaker 1: the school year, many will look back and see what
Speaker 1: they can do now that they couldn't do in September.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's writing their name, or setting the table, tying
Speaker 1: their shoes, reading, staying home alone, making a basket when
Speaker 1: the basketball goal is at full height, finding the area
Speaker 1: under a curve, driving. Sometimes my kids have presented portfolios
Speaker 1: of their work at the end of the year. It
Speaker 1: is really cool to see how even something like a
Speaker 1: self portrait can improve with time. It is satisfying for
Speaker 1: adults too, to reflect on new knowledge and skills. Progress
Speaker 1: often happens gradually, but when we focus on a specific
Speaker 1: and long time frame, like a school year, we might
Speaker 1: be able to recognize and celebrate our own growth. Maybe
Speaker 1: when you started this year, you could barely run a mile,
Speaker 1: and this spring you ran a five k. Maybe you
Speaker 1: started a new job in late summer and felt a
Speaker 1: little overwhelmed, but you just got a positive performance review
Speaker 1: and shared some insider knowledge with a new hire. How
Speaker 1: cool is that. Maybe you've set up regular deposits to
Speaker 1: your retirement account and you've actually stuck with a journaling habit.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have finally hired enough people for your team
Speaker 1: and trained them so well that work is starting to
Speaker 1: feel less stressful. All of these are really big deals,
Speaker 1: but they are hard to see in the moment. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel much different to run one mile or one
Speaker 1: point one miles. Maybe your job stress has fluctuated quite
Speaker 1: a bit over time. Because of that, it can be
Speaker 1: hard to say day to day that things are truly
Speaker 1: getting better. But when we zoom back out to a
Speaker 1: longer time horizon, progress often becomes more apparent. You never
Speaker 1: have to do much, You just have to keep going,
Speaker 1: and in the long run, a lot of little steps
Speaker 1: add up now to be sure, maybe you don't see
Speaker 1: progress on some things in life. A child who is
Speaker 1: having academic trouble at the beginning of the year is
Speaker 1: still struggling. Maybe a series of crises means your finances
Speaker 1: are actually in worse shape than they were a year ago.
Speaker 1: Unlike in school, life doesn't always move forward and set
Speaker 1: steps with eighth grade following seventh grade like day follows night.
Speaker 1: But if that is the case, maybe we just need
Speaker 1: to zoom the time horizon out a little more. Life
Speaker 1: goes up and down, and it is quite possible that
Speaker 1: in another six months or a year things will be better.
Speaker 1: So keep your eye on that and keep trying. You
Speaker 1: just might have something to be proud of by the
Speaker 1: time the next school year ends. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening and to making the most
Speaker 1: of our tasks. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: You can send me your tips, your questions, or anything else.
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