Get Familiar With Accomplishment in Micro-Goals

We live in the daunting reality of an infinite number of ways to spend our time. At least we’re marketed with the story that there are countless ways we should be making use of our time. We’re constantly told how many things there are to seek after, accomplish, achieve, experience, let go of, learn, be entertained by. So pick one. Then complete it. And let that be enough.

It can feel immensely powerful to set a micro goal and accomplish it. Write for 5 minutes without thinking. Mail a single personal card to a friend. Learn one new guitar lick. Hang 1 picture in the house. Many times our yearning comes less from finalizing that shiny monolith of a goal that lives at the horizon and more from the feeling that we are capable of accomplishment. Give yourself the luxury of that feeling today and notice what it feels like.

For me, it started with this micro-musing. I sat. I wrote. I pressed send. And I carried on with my day knowing I had already accomplished one goal. Because it’s not about writing the perfect newsletter or about how many people will read this. It’s about starting my day with doing what I say I’ll do. This is how we build trust with ourselves and it’s much more accessible with a series of micro-goals than with one long-term definition of success.

So take that walk during lunch, text that friend you’ve been thinking about, order that 1 household good you’ve been missing and tap yourself on the back. You deserve to feel accomplished today.