Clap for the small wins. They carried you here.

We tend to save our applause for the finish line. The graduation. The launch. The day it finally blooms.

But the bloom didn't come from nowhere. It came from the watering nobody saw, the tiny sprout that almost didn't make it, the week you kept going when the pot looked empty.

Small wins are easy to dismiss because they don't look like much on their own. Lined up, they're the whole story.

So clap for the email you finally sent. The walk you took. The day you didn't give up. They carried you here — and they'll carry you further.