Small wins (list)
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Learn the lyrics to your favourite song, so you can sing along to it as you walk down the street.
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Oil a door handle that's always been just a tiny bit awkward, with a can of WD-40 that has a long nozzle.
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Go to a pottery exhibition and buy a mug that feels really good in your hands. Enjoy drinking out of it every day.
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Pick one of your favourite old books and put it in the bathroom to dip in and out of when you feel like it.
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Put just one picture up on the wall. If you don't have picture hooks, buy them now and then you'll be ready next time.
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Notice another person in your organisation that you suspect wants to start a fire, and arrange to have lunch with them.
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Spray your favourite leather shoes to make them waterproof, and then smile smugly and gratefully next time you accidentally step in a puddle with them on.
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Create a playlist of songs that cheer you up, to have ready just in case.
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Carry a small Ziploc bag with a couple of tablets of medicines you find useful (e.g. Alka Seltzer for excess, Tums for heartburn, Zirtek & Beconase, for hayfever, Ibuprofen for headaches, Strepsils for sore throats). Replenish when you use one, and add to it when you wish you had something.
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Start a list of 'Small wins' of your own, and add the first item to it.
In grateful homage to Nicholas Bate.