内容来源：https://lifehacker.com/work/use-a-jar-of-awesome-to-stay-motivated?utm_medium=RSS

内容总结：

在追求高效工作的过程中，人们往往容易陷入对未完成事项的过度焦虑。心理学家指出，适时肯定自己的成就——无论大小——对保持长期动力至关重要。为此，一种名为"成就收集罐"的自我激励方法正受到广泛关注。

该方法源自蒂姆·费里斯的著作《巨人的工具》，核心在于实时记录各项成就并集中保存。当面临动力不足或突发工作考核时，这些积累的成就记录能快速帮助当事人重建信心，同时为绩效评估提供详实依据。

随着数字化生活普及，传统的实体收集罐已衍生出多种创新形式：
• 在日程本预留"成就记录页"
• 使用手机备忘录建立专属清单
• 创建电子文档同步存储工作成果

专家建议，记录时应避免过度筛选，及时完成日常琐事与达成重大目标同样值得记载。更重要的是，应将成就回顾纳入目标管理体系，在制定SMART目标时，既要参考过往不足，也要分析成功经验，从而优化未来工作计划。

这种持续记录正向反馈的方法，能有效帮助职场人士在快节奏工作中保持清晰自我认知，实现可持续的高效表现。

中文翻译：

当你盘点自己的成就时，很容易——也情有可原——纠结于未完成或本可做得更好的事。毕竟这正是进步的契机。但若想保持动力，就必须学会肯定每一个或大或小的成功。

在效率管理方面，积极与消极的平衡需要精妙把控。但无论如何，你始终需要适时休息、享受生活，并记得即使在压力之下，你仍在稳步推进事务。这正是"成功收集罐"的意义所在。

何为"成功收集罐"？

这个概念源自蒂姆·费里斯的《巨人工具：亿万富翁、偶像与顶尖 performers 的战术、惯例和习惯》，已流行多时。其核心在于随时记录成功时刻，将纸条投入罐中。当需要激励时，便可翻阅这些片段。从视觉上看，逐渐充盈的罐身本身就在昭示你近期的成果。

这种方法旨在让你既关注待办事项，也重视已完成的成就。它与撰写成就日记或年度更新简历（即使未求职）异曲同工，既能激发动力，又能形成工作档案。关键在于实时记录——若待年终考核时被迫回忆，往往难以全面复盘（经历过绩效评估的人都深有体会）。而拥有这个收集罐，即使突然被约谈工作或面临考核，你早已备好成果清单。

打造专属收集罐的实用方法

用实体罐装纸条虽显别致，但在数字化生活渐成主流的当下未必便于坚持。其实有许多方法可以打造不占空间的"收集罐"：在计划本末预留记录页，手机创建专属笔记，或在电脑建立统一归档文件夹存放成果清单及佐证材料（个人更推荐笔记应用，我的成果清单就存于手机，秒速可更新）。

无论采用何种形式，请确保所有成功记录集中呈现，让成长轨迹肉眼可见。仅扫视清单便能获得激励，细读内容更不待言。最关键的是：当想添加条目时无需犹豫。无论是压力山大时取回干洗衣物，清晨准时送孩子们出门，还是下班前处理完所有邮件——只要让你感到成就，就值得收录。别因事项看似不如重大项目紧要而忽略它，既已完成便是胜利，理当入罐。此举旨在真实记录全部成就，切勿遗漏任何细节。

最后请将回顾机制融入效率体系。譬如制定SMART目标时（明确定义任务内容、动机及期限），我们常会反思过往失误以求改进。此时不妨同步翻阅"成功收集罐"，识别那些助你成功的要素，让这些积极经验在未来规划中延续绽放。

英文来源：

When you’re taking stock of what you’ve accomplished, it’s easy—and understandable—to get caught up by what you haven’t done or wish you'd done better. After all, that's how you'll improve. But you have to remember to recognize wins big and small if you hope to keep yourself motivated.
The balance between positive and negative as it relates to productivity is delicate, but you do always need to take breaks, do things you enjoy, and remember that you’re getting things done, even during stressful times. That's why you should try creating a “jar of awesome."
What is a “jar of awesome?”
The “jar of awesome” idea comes from Tim Ferriss’ Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers and it’s been popular for some time. Essentially, Ferriss recommends writing your wins down as they occur and putting the slips of paper into a jar. When you need a motivational boost, you can read through them. Visually, the jar even shows you just how much you have accomplished lately.
The idea is to help you focus not just on everything that needs to get done, but on what you’ve already done. It’s similar to keeping an accomplishment journal or updating your resume annually, even when you’re not job-hunting, in that it both motivates you and creates a record of your work. Crucially, it keeps that record in real time. It's much harder to remember everything you've accomplished if you try to do it retrospectively or under duress (as anyone confronted with filling out a year-end performance review knows well). With the jar of awesome, if you’re ever called into a surprise meeting about your work or have a review looming, you already have a list of your accomplishments ready to go.
Ways to create your own “jar of awesome”
Actually filling a jar with little scraps of paper is a touch twee and may not be that easy to keep up with when our lifestyles are so increasingly digital. There are plenty of ways to create a “jar” of awesome that don’t involve making your desk look like a Pinterest-inspired 2013 wedding. Try leaving a page or two dedicated to tracking wins in the back of your planner or creating a designated note on your phone. Create a single source of truth (SSOT) or a file on your computer or drive, dedicated to compiling your list of wins and supporting documentation. (Personally, I'm a big on using a notes app. My list of wins lives on my phone, where I can update it in a matter of seconds.)
However you decide to do it, make sure all of the successes are listed somewhere together so the list grows visually. Just glancing at it can be a motivational push, to say nothing of reading through it all. Finally, don’t second-guess yourself when you want to add something. If you picked up the dry cleaning on a stressful day, got all the kids out of the house on time in the morning, or responded to all your emails by the end of the day and it felt good, throw it in. Just because it might seem small in comparison to a big looming project deadline doesn’t mean it wasn’t a win to get it done, so into the jar it goes. The goal is to keep track of just how much you really do accomplish, so don’t leave anything out.
Finally, build your reviews into other elements of your productivity plan. When you're making SMART goals, for instance,—clearly defining what you want to do, why you want to do it, and when you need it done by—it's easy to look to past mistakes to see what you need to correct. At the same time, look back on your jar of awesome to see what's been working for you, so you can incorporate more of those elements into your future planning too.