What You Celebrate You Replicate
How often do you celebrate wins with your team? If you’re like most high achievers, not often enough!
If I told you that the most effective and efficient path to achieving your goals is to celebrate more often, would you believe me?
The truth is, what you celebrate, you replicate. What you focus your energy on, grows and expands. In other words, if you want to win more and grow, celebrate the wins more. Focus on the small wins, shine the magnifying glass and value them and before you realize it, you’ll be winning big!
Be intentional and build celebration into the culture in your business. If you don’t value celebration, it will feel like a waste of time and you will not gain the momentum. Building a winning culture means winning more often, and reproducing wins requires creating a culture of celebration.
On the flip side of the spectrum, if you resist building celebration rhythms into your culture, it may cost you… Remember not everyone is wired like you… and even you need to celebrate more. There are TWO motivations driving each person working on your team, determining their level of success and fulfillment in their work:
1. Knowing what is EXPECTED
2. Knowing what is a WIN
Going back in the Goal Setting Mindset series, the first challenge is setting a S.M.A.R.T. Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). The second challenge is achieving that goal. The path to hitting BHAG’s is achieving the small, incremental, less exciting goals along the way. They key is not to overlook the significance of the NHAG, Next Happily Achievable Goal, and they way to do that is celebration rhythms.
Here is a quick Summary:
You REPLICATE what you CELEBRATE!
Set your BHAG(s)
Set your NHAG(s)
Step 1: Create a Rhythm for Routinely Celebrating Wins (Scheduled on the calendar. I recommend blocking a set time in your weekly team meeting agenda - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly)
Step 2: Get good at identifying the wins - small wins lead to big wins (Create a discussion around defining and categorizing wins, this is an area we can all improve)
Step 3: Document and Share (Otherwise you will forget; no win is too small; everyone shares a win)