David Letterman kept a stack of cups in his dressing room – each one represented a completed show.
One of the (many) reasons I love this photo:
What matters is what you’ve DONE – not what you intend to do.
He’s not counting down and removing cups the way you would cross things off a to-do list.
He’s simply tracking what he’s completed and doing so in a way that reveals the progress he’s made.
Most of us spend more time looking at lists of things we haven’t done (and feeling bad about it) than looking at lists of things we have done (and feeling good about it).
It’s a subtle, but important difference.
