After spending two days away from regular work planning our next years strategy there was a lot of tasks waiting for me when returning back to ordinary daily work. A lot of questions from people, actions to be taken and things I already had to postpone before our retreat.
These things tend to pile up and can easily overwhelm you. So as I luckily had some "free" time between all the meetings I tried to get as many as possible of those small tasks off my table.
At the end of the day I still wasn't finished with everything on my list. But I did good progress. Even if the day was quite busy I feel good about it. Even if those tasks weren't too important, having completed so many of them gave the feeling of accomplishment. It's good to have that feeling every now and then as my current role usually puts me working on a lot bigger things where the results are only visible after a period of time. While that xan also be rewarding you still need those small victories as well regularly.