Remember who cheered when you were still bad at it. Those cheers were the expensive ones.
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
Support for somebody already winning costs nothing, because it is easy to be enthusiastic about a sure thing. Encouragement while you were slow and clumsy and losing required believing in something that was not yet visible to anybody. That is the rarer version, and it is usually the one that decided whether you kept going at all.
Make a short list of who was there in your worst season, and thank one of them specifically this week. Then do that job for somebody who is currently bad at something they want to be good at.
Who cheered while you were still genuinely terrible?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.