This week I celebrated 1 year of episodes for my podcast, How To Run A Successful Business (and still have a life!), and I recently had the opportunity to celebrate 10 years of my dance school, Port Macquarie Performing Arts. (It was actually the 12th anniversary by the time we had our party, thanks to Covid, but it finally happened!). 

The reason I’m sharing this with you is because, as business owners, we spend a lot of time celebrating our staff and customers, but being the one doing all the organising it is rare that we stop and celebrate our own achievements — and it’s important! 

I’m not saying that every time you make a sale or get to the end of the month that you need to throw a big party, but I do want to encourage you to stop and reward yourself (and your team) for everything you’ve achieved from time to time.

We could all get better at celebrating our business journey. 

• Work / Business anniversaries

• A great sales month

• Your highest sale ever

• Outstanding customer feedback

• Reaching booking capacity on a program you offer 

• Selling out of a product

• Successfully launching a new offering

These things are all important and great reminders to us of why we do what we do, day in and day out. The late nights worrying about cashflow and financial forecasts, managing staff, dealing with difficult customers — it’s easy to get weighed down by the hard stuff in entrepreneurship when the reality is we’re usually doing so much better than we give ourselves credit for. 

I’d love you to open your diary and jot down a recent or upcoming moment you could celebrate somehow. It doesn’t need to be a huge party—simply a way to acknowledge what you (and your team, if you have one) have achieved lately.