Wins are more fun when your friends aren’t sick of hearing about them.
GRATITUDE
GRATITUDE
Good news wants an audience, and there is nothing wrong with that. What wears people down is when every conversation bends back toward your thing, so the room starts bracing instead of celebrating. The win did not get smaller. The retelling just used up the goodwill people had for it.
Say it once and say it well, then ask about them. If someone brings it up again later, that is your signal the story still has life in it. The friends who get asked about their own week tend to cheer the loudest for yours.
How often do you bring up your own wins unprompted?
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