subject: How Your Business Celebrations Can Make You More Successful [print this page] How Your Business Celebrations Can Make You More Successful
Celebration is a lost art. Many of us avoid it, resist it, pushing forward with our To Do list, skirting over our successes. The result? Self-employment feels like an endless treadmill, rather than the journey of freedom and fulfillment we'd hoped for. Of course there are plenty of generic rewards' to choose from. "A meal out!" "A manicure!" "A new dress!"
We often resist these options because they feel too self-indulgent. But also, just as it would be illogical to celebrate weight loss with a slice of chocolate cake, so too perhaps we crave more meaningful, more relevant ways to celebrate our business milestones and landmarks.
Here arethree suggestions to celebrate your business growth, to help you break you out of celebration avoidance, in order to deepen and strengthen your ever-evolving business:
1) Rest
Our precious hard-working brains need decent rest in order to process the new changes, information and responsibilities we've been dealing with. We can make this rest relative to what we're celebrating: a long bath after your first session with a new client; a massage after a big workshop; a weekend away after a sustained promotional campaign. Time away from concentrated work often opens up access to creativity and inspiration, and creates space for the new to flood in. The watched pot never boils, all work and no play makes Jill a dull girl you know the score.
What rest can you can allow yourself?
2) Invest
The fact that you have something to celebrate is likely to mean that your business is growing so find an aligned and logical way of celebrating this. Just completed your professional training? Invest in a business mentor. Earned more than last month? Invest in an accountant. More people wanting to join your mailing list? Invest inprofessional list-management software.
Whatever you're celebrating what does that enable you (or call you) to invest in?
3) What's Next?
Just as the team behind a blockbuster film decides to ride the waves of success by coming up with a sequel, so your celebration can pull you forward into next steps. Let yourself really feel this success; use music, dance or exercise to lift you up into that physical sense of joy. Bask in the possibilities of that place, then pluck one of them out and decide to turn it into reality, knowing that it in turn will carry you into the next level of success. For example, if you're celebrating getting an article published in a magazine, ride that wave and add that publication credit to the next article pitch you send.
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What might be the sequel to this success of yours?
