A short spoken YouTube piece by Chad Silverstein ("Day 164: Mentally strong...") advocating for deliberately celebrating wins (e.g., starting meetings with 'three wins', using worksheets/folders and monthly reviews) and using accountability partners and creative tactics to build habits. Emphasizes balancing attention between fixing weaknesses and reinforcing strengths to maintain motivation and growth.
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I've always been a big believer in celebrating the wins, big and small. We used to start off all of our company meetings with three wins. My, I used to do L10 meetings. We were EOS clients with my leadership team. We'd start off sharing good news and you know, I just think it's really important to celebrate the wins. We would, we would make this a discipline and we would start off our meetings and have everyone write these down. We would give people a worksheet and they would put it in their folder. And then when they came in for the next month, we did these month end meetings, we gave them their folder back so that they can write down the three wins and see the previous month's three wins. And over time you can imagine you're seeing wins, wins, wins every single month going back quarter, quarter, quarter years. And it was so powerful, so powerful. And it's just something people don't have a discipline to do. And you got to be able to celebrate the wins. You know, like day 164 says, we're so wired to remember the tough stuff, the hard situations. You could look back at your life and you remember when you were going through something really hard, it's hard to remember all the small wins. So you got to build disciplines and build that habit to make sure that you are doing that. And one of the best ways you can do this, that my team did and we got really good at it. We just partnered up with people so you have like an accountability partner. You can do this if your team doesn't do it, you can do this. If your team's not built to lead, you could just challenge someone on your team. Whether it's a contest, whether it's, you know, for time, whether it's to save money, whether it's to do push ups, whether it's to do something that you want to accomplish and finding another person who has similar like minded mindset and wants to get better at whatever it is that you're working on and then you just hold each other accountable. So I just think that's so powerful. You can, you can text each other and that prompts the other person to have to do something that you did. I don't know, there's just, there's lots of ways. You just have to get creative with it and be deliberate about celebrating wins, honor, tradition and make that a habit and have it become a discipline in your life and don't be so habituated to focusing on all the hard stuff. You know, people who are into personal professional development they're really good at being hard on themselves, not down on themselves. High performers, especially. But you have to remember that you also have to always put time and energy towards all your good qualities, all your things that give you the energy. You know, everyone's always focused on closing their integrity gaps and working on their weaknesses. You got to work on your strengths, too, and make those better. So, again, it's a healthy mindset. You know, you want to. You want to just balance that out a little bit so that you're not always focused on the hard, negative stuff that you're trying to fix and give yourself reward. It's a. It's a great discipline, and it's something that you should try to build into your process.
