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last time it popped up a few days back, and that is a different kind of purpose consolidation.</p><h1 id="394a">Some evaluations are subtle.</h1><p id="b1ff">A positive feedback loop is rewarding. You create some art, have grounded expectation that someone will at least pay attention because you are starting and worried about the quality. After a time, you see a user engaged with it and left some feedback.</p><p id="4fce">Now if you have already set a low expectation in the starting, you will <a href="https://readmedium.com/selectively-absorbing-feedbacks-is-a-skill-7ffd89cae3df">embrace any feedback for improvement</a> and also glean positive aspects from the negative ones. Yes, that is a talent and if you can do it, Congratulations!</p><h1 id="af3a">It motivates us to keep going.</h1><p id="3f7a">People appreciate you because of your work. They might have never seen, never met you. But the work you put out in the open creates an image in people’s mind, and they have set that image of you in their mind while seeing your work.</p><p id="ab5a">Built on the same image, they respond to your work and also sometimes give honest feedback. <b>Remember, feedback is about the work, not about you.</b> If we try to be less personal here and take it objectively, these feedbacks improve our work in a way self-evaluation can’t. <b>Decluttering is an art that takes practice.</b></p><h1 id="3499">It creates a remarkable journey.</h1><p id="a3fc">Whenever we reach a long term goal, it is the journey that is changing us. It is the journey that will define your character on the way, and you will feel happy that you made it anyway despite all the hurdles.</p><p id="1d3b">Goals are awesome. They give a purpose in life and push us every day. But the attainment of the target is often less exciting. Reflection of the journey teaches us so many lessons that goal achievement just can’t.</p><h1 id="2556">It has a compound effect on quality improvement.</h1><p id="89af">You will learn with time which feedbacks are honest and which feedbacks are straight-up BS. And giving attention to the feed

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backs builds this loop where you continuously keep on improving the quality by adhering to the actions that will enhance your work.</p><p id="9881">The pace of improvement is another thing. But since there is no one metric to measure quality, the speed is also tricky to judge. Instead, focusing on improving even a small step every day will compound in the long term and trigger positive self-talk whenever you want to evaluate your work.</p><h1 id="9b78">It often helps in analysing the best articles.</h1><p id="6e9f">A reader can understand when you are honest and when you are just blurting.</p><p id="eeb3">If you have, say 50, articles published and one day you want to see which were the hits, you will realise it was those where you went above and beyond in providing authentic and factual information from your personal experience.</p><p id="1ec8">That’s true because everyone has a unique way of looking at the world. And once we start to use this virtue everywhere we want, we come with great ideas that are well appreciated.</p><h1 id="cd0e">We start to believe in ourselves</h1><p id="3d95">I have some colleagues who regularly read my articles. I even talk to some old friends who ask about my blogs. They sometimes wonder how I am doing all this.</p><p id="7127">Though the answer might seem unexpected sometimes, my answer boils down to this<i>, “If you have a unique perspective on a topic derived from your personal experience, then you have learned something valuable from it. And if you give that value to the community, you will flourish.”</i></p><p id="053b"><i>This blog belongs to a series of posts I am publishing in this 100-days streak. Navigate to the end of the <a href="https://readmedium.com/your-phone-is-a-distraction-only-if-you-want-it-to-be-3ea75dfb081b">article 22</a> for the references from day 23 onwards. If you would like to read the ones before day 22, here is the <a href="https://readmedium.com/21-90-rule-combined-with-seinfeld-strategy-df9f7457dc11">first one</a> that documents them in the end.</i></p><p id="a696"><i>~ Sanjeev</i></p></article></body>

Embracing The Positive Cues When Starting Builds Immense Gratitude

Showing up every day for a dream requires massive trust in process-oriented methodology. If you have experienced this, you know well how to handle all the uncertainties that come in the starting because you are doing it for learning sake.

But for a person who is fixated on goal achievement so much, we rarely appreciate the little successes that support us. We ignore them because we set up too much expectation for ourselves in the initial learning phase.

It is self-centred and illogical to expect high returns in the starting of a new path. Like if I am a new writer on Medium, I can not expect my every article to go viral or connect with everyone. That is because every human is uniquely wired. Ergo, they will also resonate at different levels.

But I’ve set a bare minimum sign that convinces my work is valued and appreciated by the people.

Taking this as a sign of gratitude, I show up every day.

At the starting, notifications matter on Medium

Whenever I get these kinds of notifications from Medium (“X” can be a user or a publication depending on the notification type):

“X” clapped for your post
“X” started following you
“X” commented on your post
“X” left a private note on your post

These are the cues that conform that my work is valued by some people and motivates me to create more, deliver more.

Even a single notification from Medium lights up my day. It convinces that I am doing good and should keep going. If it doesn’t pop up, I still remember the last time it popped up a few days back, and that is a different kind of purpose consolidation.

Some evaluations are subtle.

A positive feedback loop is rewarding. You create some art, have grounded expectation that someone will at least pay attention because you are starting and worried about the quality. After a time, you see a user engaged with it and left some feedback.

Now if you have already set a low expectation in the starting, you will embrace any feedback for improvement and also glean positive aspects from the negative ones. Yes, that is a talent and if you can do it, Congratulations!

It motivates us to keep going.

People appreciate you because of your work. They might have never seen, never met you. But the work you put out in the open creates an image in people’s mind, and they have set that image of you in their mind while seeing your work.

Built on the same image, they respond to your work and also sometimes give honest feedback. Remember, feedback is about the work, not about you. If we try to be less personal here and take it objectively, these feedbacks improve our work in a way self-evaluation can’t. Decluttering is an art that takes practice.

It creates a remarkable journey.

Whenever we reach a long term goal, it is the journey that is changing us. It is the journey that will define your character on the way, and you will feel happy that you made it anyway despite all the hurdles.

Goals are awesome. They give a purpose in life and push us every day. But the attainment of the target is often less exciting. Reflection of the journey teaches us so many lessons that goal achievement just can’t.

It has a compound effect on quality improvement.

You will learn with time which feedbacks are honest and which feedbacks are straight-up BS. And giving attention to the feedbacks builds this loop where you continuously keep on improving the quality by adhering to the actions that will enhance your work.

The pace of improvement is another thing. But since there is no one metric to measure quality, the speed is also tricky to judge. Instead, focusing on improving even a small step every day will compound in the long term and trigger positive self-talk whenever you want to evaluate your work.

It often helps in analysing the best articles.

A reader can understand when you are honest and when you are just blurting.

If you have, say 50, articles published and one day you want to see which were the hits, you will realise it was those where you went above and beyond in providing authentic and factual information from your personal experience.

That’s true because everyone has a unique way of looking at the world. And once we start to use this virtue everywhere we want, we come with great ideas that are well appreciated.

We start to believe in ourselves

I have some colleagues who regularly read my articles. I even talk to some old friends who ask about my blogs. They sometimes wonder how I am doing all this.

Though the answer might seem unexpected sometimes, my answer boils down to this, “If you have a unique perspective on a topic derived from your personal experience, then you have learned something valuable from it. And if you give that value to the community, you will flourish.”

This blog belongs to a series of posts I am publishing in this 100-days streak. Navigate to the end of the article 22 for the references from day 23 onwards. If you would like to read the ones before day 22, here is the first one that documents them in the end.

~ Sanjeev