I'm here to say that no accomplishment is too small to be celebrated--even if it's only in our own head. And it's not bragging to tell people you've hit a personal goal for yourself. We should always celebrate each others' accomplishments.
We worry too much about our end goal, how we can get where we want to finish up. Why? An end goal is just that, an end. It's the journey that we take to get there, with all the bumps, dumps, and jumps we go through along the way that we should focus on.
I've mentioned before I see a ladder as my writing career journey. The top is lost far above me, and the bottom as well. But each accomplishment I've made: starting a book, finishing a book, letting people read a book, publishing, sales, signing events, rankings--all of those are rungs I've climbed.
Whatever happens with my end goal, those rungs will always be there. My lost in the clouds goal might be different than what I think it is now. I might never get where I dream to be. BUT, those rungs are mine. I climbed them. I celebrated them.
Enjoy the journey, celebrate your accomplishments and those of folks around you.
I have to say, Marie, that you are on a rung much further from the ground than the one you started on. My guess is you'll never get to that top rung because as you approach it you'll only think of things that push it past the clouds and on toward the moon.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon :). And you're probably right---there's always something else up there to work towards!
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