Emily McDonald argues for rewarding effort and showing up instead of waiting for external wins. She batch-records content in a day and celebrates with dinner, regardless of how it performs. The payoff comes from doing the work itself, not the outcome.
Reward the process. Reward the failures. Reward the attempts. Reward the effort. Stop waiting to feel the reward, to feel good for when you achieve it, for when you hit the goal weight, for when you build the business. Stop waiting for the certain outcome and reward the process. Reward the hard work. I'm sitting here right now and I told myself that I was going to batch record my long-form content right now. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to do a bunch of episodes. In one day so that I can have more time to focus on other things. I have told myself that I'm going to have a dinner celebration if I do this, when I do this, and I'm doing that and I'm rewarding the process. This has nothing to do with the outcome, with, with how this video does, with how many people see it. It just literally doesn't matter. I am rewarding the process. I'm rewarding myself for the fact that I showed up and I'm doing the thing that I said I was going to do.
