SMALL WINS: Planned Motivation Boosters

“Small wins” is an approach usually sold as a motivation booster. Its purpose is to minimize the delay before seeing the result, which, if too long, can decrease motivation.

However, “small wins” are also a healthy way to track progress toward an endpoint. They help you measure the results of your actions as soon as possible.

These ‘small wins’ are not limited to a monthly or weekly scale. They can occur several times daily, helping you bridge the gap between ‘endpoint tiers.‘

For instance, what else, if not a small win, is the daily word count professional writers use? Moreover, these quotas are further divided to set hourly productivity. And if you want to write 1500 words in five hours like Mark Twain, you have to hit 300 words every hour. Hitting this mark is a small win—the one that can happen every hour.

You can measure revising by pages per hour—another small win.

As we know, The Immortals revised their writing dozens of times. Roald Dahl mentioned revising 150 times, Hemingway 39, etc. How did they know? They measured, of course, every single time.

Small wins helped them stay focused and motivated.

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