Unexpected little successes, maximum joy!
Positive dopamine hits for all day energy
A week ago Monday I had a couple of small wins that had a rub-off effect all day, though the actual success was trivial.
I had bought a $20 item at the nearby Walmart the previous day that I had scanned twice wrongly at the self-billing counter. The assistant manager the next day promptly refunded it without question, even though it was on me to verify the purchase.
Later that afternoon, I was able to pick seats for my travel to India for free. I had booked these flights through Lufthansa having paid for the seats for two of their segments and was slotted in the middle seats for the Air Canada code shares. However, when I logged into Air Canada I was able to switch the middle row seats to window/aisle seats for free - something that I had paid a sweet penny to the other airline.
The source of the joy was that they were both unexpected but still did happen. The learning’s were that unexpected experiences that pan out positively make mighty differences way out of proportion to the nature of the event. Small wins, big joy.