{"id":3247,"date":"2024-03-29T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2024-03-29T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:36:47","slug":"feeling-overwhelmed-try-tallying-small-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Overwhelmed? Try Tallying Small Wins."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taking stock of small achievements can keep you motivated when times are tough, experts say.<\/p>\n

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When I joined The New York Times as a columnist in 2022, I hadn\u2019t worked in an office in over two decades. Before, I wrote freelance articles and books at home; my only co-worker was Tux, my tuxedo cat.<\/p>\n

On my first day, I was shown to my cubicle and given a computer. Feigning confidence, I sat down, opened my laptop and found myself unable to log in. I tried again. I started to sweat. Then, I called our I.T. department. The person who answered volunteered to assist me over the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, no,\u201d I whispered. \u201cEveryone will hear me fumbling. Can\u2019t I just come to you?\u201d<\/p>\n

I grabbed my computer and hurried upstairs, where a man named Adnan gently asked if I was OK. In his five years working at The Times, he told me, he had seen a lot of colleagues feeling overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

So he shared something that he thought might help. He told me to imagine a jar and suggested that I add a metaphorical penny to it every time I achieved something \u2014 even a task as small as finding my way back to my desk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over time, he said, you will fill up the jar. You will see that you are moving forward, even when you don\u2019t feel that you are, he added.<\/p>\n

I still think about that jar, especially when I\u2019m having a rough time. I still deposit \u201cpennies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tallying up victories, even little ones, can be motivating, said B.J. Fogg, the founder of the Behavioral Design Lab at Stanford University and the author of \u201cTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Taking stock of small achievements can keep you motivated when times are tough, experts say.When I joined The New York Times as a columnist in 2022, I hadn\u2019t worked in an office in over two decades. Before, I wrote freelance articles and books at home; my only co-worker was Tux, my tuxedo cat.On my first day, I was shown to my cubicle and given a computer. Feigning confidence, I sat down, opened my laptop and found myself unable to log in. I tried again. I started to sweat. Then, I called our I.T. department. The person who answered volunteered to assist me over the phone.\u201cPlease, no,\u201d I whispered. \u201cEveryone will hear me fumbling. Can\u2019t I just come to you?\u201dI grabbed my computer and hurried upstairs, where a man named Adnan gently asked if I was OK. In his five years working at The Times, he told me, he had seen a lot of colleagues feeling overwhelmed.So he shared something that he thought might help. He told me to imagine a jar and suggested that I add a metaphorical penny to it every time I achieved something \u2014 even a task as small as finding my way back to my desk.Over time, he said, you will fill up the jar. You will see that you are moving forward, even when you don\u2019t feel that you are, he added.I still think about that jar, especially when I\u2019m having a rough time. I still deposit \u201cpennies.\u201dTallying up victories, even little ones, can be motivating, said B.J. Fogg, the founder of the Behavioral Design Lab at Stanford University and the author of \u201cTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}