About a month ago, I posed a question you may have reflected on:

I've been jotting down my thoughts about this. I'm gaining some clarity, seeing my thoughts starting to crystallize. (finally 😅)

 

This reminds me of a book I read last year, The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy. A quote from the book that describes the concept in the title is:

 

 

The authors describe how our minds default to what's next, to where we want to go. So it feels like we're never really there. Always seeing the gap between here and the ideal. It can make you feel like nothing is ever enough, because you're measuring yourself against an ideal.

 

Gain thinking is exactly what the reflection question above was inviting. Not "where do I still need to go," but "where have I been, and where am I now?" Measuring backward instead of forward.

 

A Next Step
How have you grown in the last few months? In what ways have you become even more of your best version of you?

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