"Microdose progress and remind yourself what a tiny dose feels like."<p>This was a key concept that came up again and again in therapy for me. The way my therapist put it was: "Small wins accumulate." When you're the kind of person who feels like anything short of a big win is a loss, this mindset can be really difficult to wrap your head around. Having it sink in over many years of being continually reminded was critical to my own personal development, and specifically to my being able to be OK with myself.<p>It really is true too, and once I started seeing evidence - usually in the form of being able to use something from a project I started and never finished some years earlier - I started to change the way I think about "just doing it".