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Celebrate Small Satisfactions
By Jenna Lynne Roberts
In the field of self-improvement, we often want big gains that are obvious and quick.
I’ve been doing a new health regiment and I have to remind myself to acknowledge the improvements I have made, rather than focus on my impatience with how slow the process is.
Screenwriter Nora Ephron wrote a resonant line in When Harry met Sally, spoken by another great writer, Carrie Fisher: “instant gratification takes too long”.
With smartphones and the internet, we’ve all become quite accustomed to immediacy.
These days, it takes real fortitude to have a debate with someone and not fact check them on Google in the moment.
Hilariously enough . . . as I was writing this prior paragraph’s rough draft on my phone with speech-to-text, I said the G word. My phone instantaneously thought I was talking to it and Gemini started asking what I was needing. Perfect example of the problem and blessing that we are in right now.
Which is why it’s all the more important that we really give ourselves lots of acknowledgment for the small gains that take a longer time to build.
We have more instant gratification than ever. It can be fun. I love being able to find the commercial from the 80’s I am thinking about in only a minute.
But we all know how that can also become an addiction. Rather than stop enjoying the high, let’s give ourselves more support on the long-form satisfactions.
Sit for a moment and think of one thing you have accomplished in this last week that might have been easily overlooked?
Let it be minor. Did you brush your teeth everyday? Twice even!? Wow! High five!
What is one habit that you are getting better about slowly but surely, even if you’ve backtracked a bit and had to restart?
Impressive! Your persistence is an inspiration!
What are the baby steps that you see yourself doing more regularly that’s taking you closer and closer to improvements you’ve been wanting to make?
I bet you are already feeling some of those benefits! Amazeballs!
We need to remind our brains that slow and steady is super impressive and deserves accolades even more than the quick fix.
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Let’s look at th present stretch of your long game during a personal tarot reading with me.
Strengthen your journey in long form learning of something you enjoy in a tarot reading lesson.
Share the high fives with a friend in a Tarot Together session.
Give your community some quick and fun gratifications when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for a party.
I hope you get to enjoy a long weekend of giving yourself lots of compliments for the little stuff.
You are a Rock Star of the Things You Do,
Jenna Lynne Roberts