Time for a Small Reward!

It's 9:00pm and my entire body HURTS!

My amazing husband and I spent the day purging, sorting, organizing and downsizing from 2 storage units to 1 unit. After 7 hours, we did it! A car full of stuff to donate. A trunk full of paper to go to recycling and some goodies brought home to the apartment. And I'm tired!

As we were driving home at the end of the day with the 2nd load of "treasures" to incorporate into the already filled apartment and 2 very stinky dirty bodies TJ told me how proud he was of what we accomplished. Downsizing and getting rid of more things. Saving $300 dollars because we don't have to pay for the 2nd unit. Following through on what we said we were going to do this weekend.

On the flip-side, all I could think about was how much work still needed to be done. Deal with stuff we brought home. Sort through everything already here to make room for the new stuff. Figure out here the artwork is going to be hung. Along with all the other day to day chores. I couldn't wrap any energetic energy around a positive lining in our day.

Then he said he would take me to the bar to celebrate. That... That started to change my thinking! (There's a bar up the street with garage doors they open on nice nights that I really want to check out. I swear that's it... I'm really not a lush *she types between sips of beer*.) With a teeny, tiny bit of  excitement, I started to re-think the money. I don't care so much about the $300 (that amount doesn't go as far as it used to!), but I do care about the financial snowball effect ending the monthly storage fee and applying it to getting out of debt will begin building. Being debt free will help us get to the life we want.

I was nice to start to feel good about what we had done today. They say, one should reward themselves for small accomplishments. Acknowledge the milestones so you stay motivate to complete the journey. I was able to do that. I wasn't able to look at what we finished until I began to look at it from a different angle. Now, I'm really proud of what we did! And I'm so tired that we are just going to go to bed for the night as our celebratory reward and skip the bar. (Proof that I'm old!)

How do you work through big, multiple tasks? Do you celebrate the parts or wait till it's all done? Do you only see the next step or can you appreciate what you have checked off the list?