Let’s Party! Why Celebrating Success Can Be The Key To Your Business’s Future
Posted July 3, 2008 in Business, Lifestyle
What do you do after you successfully complete a major project?
At the conclusion of a major project it’s business as usual, right?
Wrong!
Feedback from other freelancers, and my own experience, has led me to believe that it’s crucial for us to celebrate our business successes as they occur. Yet, celebrating success is something that many of us are not good at.
Four Benefits to Celebrating Business Successes
Here are four reasons why celebrating your freelancing successes will help your business:
- By celebrating, you acknowledge that something positive has happened. When you’re freelancing it’s easy to fall into the rut of thinking that you’re not accomplishing anything. Celebrating your successes can help you to overcome that feeling.
- Celebration breaks up the routine and can spark creativity. All work and no play is . . . no fun. Well, you know what they say about working ALL of the time. Taking a break to celebrate might be just what you need to jumpstart your creativity.
- If you won’t admit to your own successes, how can you expect others to be aware of them? Do you think that your work and efforts are under-appreciated by others? If you believe that, could it be because you don’t even appreciate your own work?
- It’s easier to remember your accomplishments if you mark them with celebrations. Taking the time to commemorate your achievements will make it easier for you to recollect them when it comes time to list what you’ve done (such as in a proposal).
Five Simple Celebrations of Success
Perhaps you haven’t been celebrating your business successes because you think that a celebration involves too much time or effort. Admittedly, sometimes a major success does call for an all-out celebration.
Most of the time, however, a celebration can be something simple and easy.
Here are five simple success celebrations that you can have today:
- Tell someone. Often just telling someone else that you’ve experienced a business success may be enough of a celebration – particularly if you confide your accomplishment to someone who can appreciate what went into your achievement.
- Take a break. Time away from work might be just the celebration that you need. If you’ve just finished a major project, celebrating that fact by taking time off can help you focus on more personal needs.
- Give yourself a reward. I know many freelancers who “treat” themselves when they have a major accomplishment. The “treat” can be a purchase of something that they’ve been wanting or even allowing themselves to have a special food or drink that they rarely get.
- Make a record of your success. It’s a good idea to keep a written record of your successes. While you may remember what you’ve completed next week or next month, it might be difficult to recollect exactly what your project entailed in a year.
- Exercise. A lot of freelancers spend hours behind a computer monitor. While the computer is a key tool for many projects, spending a lot of time in front of one can lead to a rather sedentary lifestyle. One healthy way to mark your successes is to get up and do something physical each time that you complete a project.
Of course, your success celebration need not occur when you are alone. Celebrating can be an excellent excuse to get together with colleagues, friends, and family in a social setting.
Did you accomplish something positive today?
What are you waiting for? Let’s party!
Laura
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About the author: Laura Spencer is a freelance writer from North Central Texas with over 18 years of professional business writing experience. If you liked this post, then you may also enjoy Laura’s blog about her freelance writing experiences, WritingThoughts.
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About the author: Laura Spencer is a freelance writer from North Central Texas with over 20 years of professional business writing experience. If you liked this post, then you may also enjoy Laura’s blog about her freelance writing experiences, WritingThoughts. Laura is also on Google+.
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12 Comments
liam
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pmVery interesting read, and I like the idea of reminding yourself something positive has happened. Lovely and inspirational post, thanks for sharing :)
Karen Zara
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pmI tend to hold back my enthusiasm instead of celebrating my success. Your article opened my eyes. Everything you wrote makes sense and I’ll try to keep those lessons in mind. Thank you for the advice. :-)
Tracey Grady
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 pmGood call. It’s not an easy ride being an independent contractor, and it’s good to get a reminder to pat ourselves on the back for a job well done.
Tom - StandOutBlogger.com
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 pmIf you don’t celebrate it doesn’t feel like you have accomplished anything.
Niki Brown
July 4th, 2008 at 7:03 amI defiantly treat myself after finishing freelance projects. For me freelancing=extra cash to blow on things I don’t need (and to stuff the rest in high intrest savings)
Jaq
July 5th, 2008 at 4:16 amThanks for the reminder! Most of the time, when I finish one work, I immediately proceed to the next one. But I will do it, I promise! I will celebrate my success!
Laura Spencer
July 7th, 2008 at 2:14 pmAs always, great comments! I hope that this post helps someone to recognize when their milestones have been met.
If you’ve never celebrated success before and are now giving it a try, I’d love to hear how it worked out for you. (Jaq, Karen Zara).
JSHAW
July 8th, 2008 at 9:52 amIts good to be reminded of this. after a project or any daunting extended task i find that its always good to do a good workout and or a killer while out in the clubs
Prairie Princess
June 11th, 2009 at 12:06 pmHey Laura, I agree celebrating success is critical to morale and goal construction going forward. I have a friend who is about to launch his own company after his long term employer went under recently. He’s feeling pretty battered, as you can imagine, but is charged up about his own new business.
I want to make a small plaque (you know, the kind with 12-24 little metal plaques on one larger one) to celebrate his milestones as he goes along (ie. first month he turned a profit, first quarter that exceeded x amount of profit, etc.)
I am no business person and would like ideas on what milestones would be good to celebrate on that plaque. Got any good ideas?
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