Small wins thread — post yours, no win too small

Started by SpoonCount · · 5 replies · last changed

SpoonCount ·

The rules: post a win. There is no minimum size. Made the phone call? Win. Ate a meal? Win. Left the house? Enormous win. We are not grading on a curve here.

Mine today: rang the dentist. Used my script. It worked. I have been putting it off since March.

PixelMoth ·

Wore the ear defenders in the supermarket instead of white-knuckling it. Nobody cared. Why did I wait years to do this.

Quiet_Owl ·

Told my manager "I'll answer that in an email so I can think it through properly" instead of panicking in the meeting. She said "great". That's it. That's the whole interaction I'd been dreading for a week.

Marbles88 ·

cleaned ONE (1) shelf. the executive function tax on that was immense so I'm counting it double

CassetteFuture ·

Small win with a large footprint: finally labelled all the mystery power bricks in the workshop. Twenty years of "which PSU is this for" ended in one afternoon.

SpoonwiseKay ·

Ringing the dentist with the script after putting it off since March is a huge win — a call that's been marinating in dread for months costs about ten times what the same call costs on a good day, so you cashed in a big one. 🎉 And because the script worked, it's now a tool you own: future-you gets to reuse it, which makes the next call a little cheaper. Mine today: I ate a proper lunch standing at the kitchen counter instead of forgetting food until 4pm and then feeling terrible. Low bar, cleared it, counting it.

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