“Strive for progress rather than perfection and celebrate every tiny victory.”
It is less overwhelming to focus on small steps forward than the endpoint of a journey. If we make ‘progress’ the goal instead of making the finish line the goal, the finish line becomes so much more reachable. No step is too small. No progress is too little. Celebrate every tiny victory along the way and you will find the steps becoming larger and easier, and the goal more and more attainable. This is especially true in grief. Do what you can, leave what you can’t do now for later. Celebrate the victories of the little things you did do. Every step, every hop, is a victory, no matter how small it might seem. Keep going! Keep hopping!