Celebrating Small Steps Forward

Recognize small miracles each day. It may not be something the whole world will be celebrating but it is enough that you recognize your miracle for yourself. That will keep you fueled to look forward to tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. You will realize you are farther from the you yesterday albeit just a small inch.

If it is hard to see the daily miracles, recall the other days and have hope that there will be. Hope and rest with the thought that you have gotten this far and this is not yet the end of your journey.

I had a presentation set last Wednesday (July 14, 2021). The last time I presented to my lead (previous week) what I learned so far with the training from the other group through a demo, she was not satisfied because it lacked the very thing that we needed to learn. She gave me another week to prepare and we opted for a self-learn rather than having a hand-holding session from another group.

I have had this in my head for since Wednesday (July 14, 2021). I have been musing about how sure enough, after I published this article, the thing that was not working started working middle of that day.

Before that happened, the probable scenarios were already playing in my head. I was already conditioning my heart with the possibility of hearing an earful of sermon - the kind that ruins your day further. I was also contemplating on telling her I do not want this on my plate (quitter?).

I was also conditioning my heart telling it not to go super Saiyan in the middle of the sermon and surprise me and my lead by suddenly making me answer back with curt tone. Yes, I have discovered some time before that I have tendencies to go Super Saiyan but that depends on the approach and the words my lead will be using. Depends also on my level of frustration with how the lead will be handling the disappointing scenario.

And I was already thinking of words to say to bargain for moving demo day (originally Wednesday) to next day (Thursday) hoping that next day, it will be better. I was simulating the conversation in my head and mentally noting the possibilities of the outcome Dr. Strange style.

I was scrambling to have answers. I was scrambling to have solutions and I was scrambling to know who to ask.

But thank God, I was able to spot a resource who can help me out in finding out reason. And when I tried, the system started to work. I was able to quickly catch up on my topic and breeze through learning what I needed to learn. Prepare a short demo of a functioning system and present it to my lead properly.

Like she said, small progress is better than none.

I again laughed at my self for doubting a moment. I have been looping Jars of Clay's Eleventh Hour and screaming in my head the lines that go, "I won't give up on giving You the chance to blow my mind". Rather sounds bratty. But it is bold. We are encouraged to pray bold prayers, right? And it did result a Yes-answered prayer. Small miracles that may seem small and weird and may be insignificant but it is to me. It is one thing to be questioning if you still like where you are and another to be ruining deliverables just because you cannot settle for an answer to that question yet.

A huge rock was pulled out of my shoulders that day and I keep pouring glasses of wine in my head in celebration of that week that I thought would have been horrific. If I was not able to present properly she would be setting a meeting everyday to check on progress that is for sure. We were able to come up with the next plans. She was off my back for the rest of the week. Happy dance!

Though far from really fully accomplished as I still need a lot more to learn from that system and really own it, I would forever mark that day.

Milestones. They said that word came from the Romans to measure how far you have travelled so far.

Celebrate small steps forward. Mark each as a milestone. That way, you can look back and see how far you've come. And I pray when you do realize how far you've come, you get the courage to move one more step forward.

Cheers! Hello my fellow Readers! Thank you for making it this far.

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