Nobody throws a parade for the drowning that didn’t happen. Some of the best wins are invisible.

Prevented disasters leave no evidence, so some of the best things you do are invisible to everyone. The money you did not spend, the argument you headed off, the drive you handed to someone sober: each is a story that never happened, and those get no credit. You will have to keep that score yourself, because nobody else can see it.

Think back over the past month for one thing that went wrong and then did not. Give yourself the credit, even if only in your own head. When you catch someone else quietly preventing something, tell them you noticed.