🏆 Recognizing & Celebrating Wins: Go 1-0 Every Day ⚾

José Bautista’s legendary bat flip, but make it about productivity. ⚾💪 Image: Sportsnet / MLB

I am a baseball fan—though, honestly, "fan" might not even be a strong enough word. I have season tickets to my beloved Washington Nationals ⚾. I've attended not one but TWO World Series, including 2019’s legendary Game 7. And every winter, like clockwork, I rewatch Ken Burns’s BASEBALL as if it’s required reading for life.

Alright, fine. I am deeply, madly, irreversibly obsessed with baseball.

One of the many reasons I love the sport? Success in baseball is all about perspective. The best hitters in history—Ted Williams, Tony Gwynn, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays—hovered around a .400 batting average. That means even the greatest of all time failed more than they succeeded.

Need some perspective? Here’s a golden line from Bull Durham that nails it:

Crash Davis: "You know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits. Twenty-five hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points, OK? There's 6 months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week—just one—a gorp… you get a groundball, you get a groundball with eyes... you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week... and you're in Yankee Stadium.”

Wild, right? 🤯 One tiny bloop hit can be the difference between baseball immortality and total obscurity.

That mindset is exactly how my beloved Nationals turned their abysmal 2019 season around. They started with a dismal 19-31 record. Not great! But instead of spiraling, Manager Davey Martinez told the team to focus on going 1-0 every day. They did just that—stringing together small wins until they won the damn World Series. 🏆

Small Wins Are Everything

We get so fixated on the big moment that we forget to celebrate the small steps that get us there. But if you’re not recognizing your progress, you’re robbing yourself of motivation.

Here’s how to go 1-0 every day in your own life:

✅ 1. Define What a Win Looks Like for You

Wins aren’t just final outcomes—they’re the small, everyday moments of progress. Sent that email you’ve been dreading? Win. Showed up at that networking event when you’d rather be in sweatpants? Win.

🎉 2. Celebrate Immediately (No Matter How Small)

Reward yourself—treat yourself to a cacao nib (or, let’s be real, a cookie 🍪), share your progress with a friend, or just take a deep breath and whisper, winner.

⚡ 3. Go from a Strikeout to a Single

Every challenge you overcome is proof of your resilience. Re-read that Bull Durham quote. It’s all about the tiny shifts that lead to the big moments.

🤝 4. Surround Yourself with Positive Reinforcement

Share your wins with people who get it. Find your cheering squad (or your own personal Nats Park Section 316) and root, root, root for yourself and others.

You’re not going to win the World Series every day. And even the best of the best fail more often than they succeed. But those small wins? They add up.

Go 1-0 every day. 🚀

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