Simple Tasks and a Sense of Accomplishment
Never underestimate the positivity simple tasks can create.
When it comes to goals and the things we are working to do for our lives, they tend to be large.
These are not necessarily just the uber-achievement, huge-money-making large. These are also the not-instantaneous, multiple steps required large. Like building a business, evolving a relationship, or writing and selling a novel.
When you’re pressing towards such a goal, it’s easy to get caught up in the work that goes into it. It’s also easy to feel like you’re just spinning your wheels. This can be particularly complicated, and even frustrating when the goal requires outside matters.
If you have started the food truck of your dreams, you can’t make customers magically appear to buy the food. If you have published a novel or completed a work of art, you can’t make anyone buy them. Marketing and advertising are important helpers — but don’t come with guarantees.
A sense of positivity helps to keep you focused, hopeful, and in sight of that long-term goal. Ultimately, the accomplishment of reaching that bigger goal is going to find and/or create tremendous positivity.
Yet throughout the process, you still need to feel a sense of accomplishment. That helps you build mental, emotional, and spiritual muscle to push through difficulties — much the same as weight-lifting builds physical muscle.
One way to do this is by doing and completing simple tasks to feel that sense of accomplishment.
Everyday tasks taken for granted
There are things that we do every single day that can create that sense and feeling of accomplishment and its accompanying positivity.
For example — I didn’t do the dishes after dinner last night. After taking a walk this morning, then making more coffee, I realized there weren’t that many dishes to be done. So, before setting to work on this, I soaped up the sponge and did the dishes.
The sink and stovetop clear, I looked at the less chaotic space, the dishes drying on the rack, and felt a sense of accomplishment. I did it, the dishes were done. It felt good and positive…
