Once you achieve a milestone, pay yourself with something you enjoy. It could be a favorite movie or game. You can also reward yourself by going for a walk or cooking your favorite meal. This act of rewarding yourself any time you achieve a goal will help your brain associate positivity with outcomes. 5. Persist

Design / specification complete. All design and spec briefs are finished, and the team is ready to write a code.

To influence how things happen, managers need to understand how to use their power. Berkun lists different kinds of power for managers to consider how they are used in their organizations:

The ability to make things happen is a combination of knowing how to be a catalyst in a variety of different situations and having the courage to do so.Contextualizing Disaster Disaster Upon Disaster Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice Constructing Risk Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment The Power of the Story Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean Scott Berkun's "Making Things Happen" is a brilliantly written project management book that covers a broad range of skills and scenarios that you will acquire and experience, respectively, during your journey of managing projects. The author comprehensively explains how project management is done in detailed yet easy to read words. Excellent book. My main complaint, if you can call it that, was that as an overview, it could only give a taste of the topics covered. Fortunately, Berkun sprinkled follow-up references liberally throughout. Now is the **time begin the postmortem process**. Give yourself, as well as your team, the benefit of learning from what went well and what didn’t go well.