Balance the failure log with a gratitude log: yours and others’.

If you only track failures, you’ll convince yourself the team is dying. Morale survives on small wins.

The Kudos Journal is a notebook where you log little victories by your team, by you.

How to use

• Each week, jot 1–2 good things you noticed.
  • Alice finally spoke up in retro.
  • A release landed with zero drama.
  • Someone actually laughed at one of my jokes in stand-up.
• Sprinkle these back into 1:1s, retros, or Slack. Call out colleagues by name. Celebrate them.
• Keep it real. This isn’t corporate cheerleading.

Bright Spots

Here is your pile of bright spots you can pull out when everything feels like mud.

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