Some of your biggest wins will happen in a room with nobody watching. Celebrate them anyway.

Plenty of real progress happens with nobody there to see it. The hard conversation you finally had, the thing you did not quit, the morning you got up when it would have been easy not to. None of it will be marked by anyone else, and the absence of a witness has no bearing on whether it counted.

Make a habit of noting those privately. A line in a notebook, a moment of standing still and acknowledging it, whatever feels least awkward. Waiting for someone else to notice means most of your best work goes permanently unrecorded.