{"id":641,"date":"2023-03-12T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:14:08","slug":"small-victories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Small Victories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things I have been getting better at over the last 6 months. Most of these things are small, but it&#8217;s important to keep track of the small victories as they add up over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Finishing Online Courses: So far, I&#8217;ve completed 3 short courses on LinkedIn Learning. These courses are a mix of professional and personal development. While 3 courses aren&#8217;t a huge amount, I finished what I started. Continuous learning is important to me, and it also means that I don&#8217;t lose my ability to learn. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintained my professional certification: This was just another course I had to take, but I did it, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s important.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed my laptop (twice): after accidentally spilling water on the keyboard, I replaced it. This was about 3 months after the SSD died, and I replaced that. Again, neither of these things is HUGE, but the key is that in both cases, I had working laptops within a week, and because of data back-ups, I didn&#8217;t lose anything important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I write about my small victories as a reminder that I actually did something beyond just getting by. Yes, there&#8217;s always more to do<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I have been getting better at over the last 6 months. Most of these things are small, but it&#8217;s important to keep track of the small victories as they add up over time. What&#8217;s Next? I write about my small victories as a reminder that I actually did something beyond just getting by. Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}