How Being PROUDuctive Changed Everything - Journaling Wins When Life Is Hard 🌞

What if the problem isn't that you're not productive enough — it's that you're not proud enough of what you actually manage to accomplish? In this Daily Dose of Dawn, resilience coach Dawn Super introduces the concept of being PROUDuctive: tracking and celebrating your wins specifically against your own baseline, not someone else's. For anyone living with chronic illness, pain, exhaustion, or a brain that doesn't cooperate, this reframe isn't toxic positivity — it's the metacognition strategy that builds real confidence, real motivation, and a real inner cheering section. One little win at a time.

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When your body or mind betray you on the daily, it can be hard to remember that anything ever goes right. Today I'm talking about changing your thinking from being productive to being prouductive.

Today I'm going to talk about the role being proud of myself played in getting me here — to this place where I'm thriving and loving my life despite having nine disabling disorders and a plethora of plenty things to complain about. This is not toxic positivity. Changing your thinking about your thinking is called metacognition and it's considered the highest intelligence there is. I just call it surviving Tuesday.

And if that's something that you'd like to think about for a few minutes, welcome in to your daily dose of Dawn at Dawn — videos designed to expand your thinking.

When you're in pain, it sucks your power. Exhausted? It sucks the go juice from your mind. You're emotional. It can suck the hope from your heart. When everything is hard and you're stuck in the suck, it can be easy to believe that that's all there is for you.

I mean, having lifelong narcolepsy — I'm going to have this for the rest of my life. It's not optional. Medication didn't work for me. I'm managing the best that I can. So I had to get to a place where I radically accept that my life is going to be different than someone who isn't living with these challenges.

What's important is the framing in that. Instead of thinking "oh no I can't do these things because I have this issue," I had to reframe it to "wow, I did this despite having this issue." Also having the courage to say "I can't do this because I have this issue, but I can do this instead."

Baby steps don't seem like much unless you've chased a baby. Keep going.

That's the magnet that goes with day two of my book. The topic is journaling your wins. When you're exhausted and credit goes elsewhere — no one is cheering for you, told that you're fishing for compliments or that it's bad form — it can easily turn you into someone who downplays all of your accomplishments. And that doesn't serve you.

Have you ever chased a baby? Seriously, I had three kids and they were faster when they were little than as they got older. One little thing you manage to accomplish adds to another and before you know it, you get something done. And you need to let yourself feel good about that. You need to let the voice in your head root for you.

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Think about that for a second. My head used to be a battleground. I had a thousand tabs open and they were all blaming me for something. Make a mistake and "of course you did." Accomplish something good and hear my mother's voice in my head — "What do you want, a cookie?"

Yeah, I do want a cookie.

If we screw up and we tell ourselves we suck, we're going to feel bad about that. And it's important if you feel your feels that you also keep your feet out of the fire.

It can be easy, living a life that's hard with chronic illness, to feel like an impostor if you have a good day. But if we take these little wins and start keeping track of them, they start to add up into the picture of "we're coping with our difficult life." It gives you the opportunity to celebrate you — not that you're better than someone else, just that you managed to accomplish something you can be proud of.

Keeping track of your wins boosts your confidence. It enhances your motivation. It improves your mental health. It encourages you to be a grateful person. I'm so grateful about the things that I've been able to accomplish despite this challenging life that I've been given. Some people might look at it and think it's nothing, and other people would look at it and just be wowed that I was able to accomplish even a fraction of it. But honestly, neither of them matter more than my own opinion of the things that I'm able to accomplish.

When I'm kind to myself. When I give myself grace. When I celebrate what I am able to do and radically accept what I'm not able to do. And I'm going to bed at 7:30 in the afternoon because I've got a gig that's sucking the life out of me during the day when it gets too hot — you have to make adjustments so that you can still be happy about your existence.

Whether you stay stuck in the suck and miserable or you decide to trudge through and find what there is to be happy about this challenging existence — the time still passes. The only difference is what happens inside of your noggin while it does.

If you'd like to try journaling your wins, you can use many different mediums to do that nowadays. You can also have a win friend that you share your wins with. I'm friends with another female entrepreneur who's living with lifelong challenges like I am and she and I celebrate each of our little victories with each other. It's super important to always find something to encourage yourself with.

There's absolutely nothing toxic about encouraging yourself. It's how you can help yourself go further than you would if you were beating yourself up or reminding yourself that you can't do it.

My son and I are both deep in projects right now. So we give each other little status updates — he says where he's up to in his project and I say where I'm up to in mine and we encourage each other in that way. Talking about what's going right and problems that we solve, highlighting where we're winning and getting positive feedback for our efforts. Knuckles.

All that celebrating gives us even more productivity.

Even framing something as simple as doing the dishes in this way helps you get through a hard day. You can look at the dishes and lament and complain in your mind that you have to do them, or you can find the strength to do them and then be proud of the fact that even though you felt like roadkill, you still did the dishes. Because later, after you're rested, when you come back — the dishes will be done and you'll be able to feed yourself.

No matter what you do today, do it from your own side.

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