Count Your Wins

What is it?

Counting your wins is the action of listing all the things that happened in the last 24 hours that moved you closer to your goals and/or vision.

‍Why?

According to research conducted by the National Science Foundation* around 80% of our thoughts are negative. And you have around 12,000 - 50,000 thoughts daily. You would probably agree that if 80% of your thoughts are naturally negative, that’s not a healthy ratio if you are trying to achieve a life of happiness and fulfillment.

How do you do it?

Each night before you crawl into bed or even as you crawl into bed take 5 minutes to reflect on your day.List all the things both big and small that were wins in your day that moved you closer to where you want to be in your goals. We are going to bed feeling positive, not angry with ourselves that we haven't done XYZ.

Hints

• There is no win that is too small, your brain doesn’t know the difference between big and small

• We all have wins every single day for example just the act of thinking about doing your wins is a win

• If you can’t think of your wins break them into categories of life “health, wealth, relationships” and try to find things for each category

• Don’t over complicate it - write out the wins in bullet or point form,, write it in a journal, text it to yourself just do it

• This is going to feel almost too simple to be effective - do not let that be the reason you that you don’t do it

• If you can’t count your wins at night do them ANY time of day, as long as you do them

Examples

• Drank my water

• Only had one donut instead of the two donuts

• Took the time to stop and hug my kids this morning longer

• Actually allowed myself to slow down and enjoy my coffee this morning

• Hit all my steps

• Counting my wins even though I don’t want to

• Despite feeling hormonal I manage to get most of what I wanted done today

• Having new levels of awareness about my past

• Communicated effectively when I was upset today

Nicole