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Celebrate Small Satisfactions

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.