My 12 year-old greeted me after work last night by telling me that the Dow went up, St. John’s beat Georgetown and it looked like Seton Hall would do well against South Florida…all in all, he said, a good day!  After I got over the insanity of my pre-teen knowing that the Dow went up, I started to think about how important it is to celebrate small victories in this current environment. 

It’s tough out there and it’s very easy to get demoralized in the face of budget cuts, staff reductions, friends losing jobs and prices going up.  But, just this week, we:

•  brought in two cool projects
• a team pulled off a great presentation to a client that took them out of their comfort zone and made them feel proud in the process
• reconnected with former colleagues who have overcome some challenges only to be celebrating personal and professional successes and wanting us to join them for the task ahead, and 
• got fabulous and well-deserved notice for a long-standing client with one of the junior members of the team really reaping the credit for the great work accomplished

Sure, we had some tough moments too.  It would be very easy to let the tough overshadow the good but why let that happen? 

It’s the successes that motivate so we need to focus on them even as we deal with the tough stuff.  And yes, Seton Hall won…so, all in all, a good day.