🔧 Round of applause

December, end of the year. It is the time of reflection and setting new goals or objectives for next year. Wait! How many posts of goals-2025 have you read? I don’t want to add one more of that. I want to bring a different approach instead. What if we start celebrating for what we have done during 2024. Could be so little or very much, it doesn’t matter. There is always something to celebrate about.

Don’t let me be misunderstood. It is important to set new goals and continue moving forward, following your vision. I am fan of planning. I will finish doing 3 or 4 scenarios for next year. However, it is also important to stop and celebrate too.

The routine keeps us moving forward, and we sometimes forget to celebrate our successes. This is as much important as planning. It is not necessary to throw a full party. If it is only a speech, then is also useful. The important matter is taking the time to stop and celebrate. We have made a huge step doing only that.

The other day, I was talking with my boss in my 1:1, and he mentioned that he was happy because we finally got that project, we have been following for 6 months, and it was a huge success. However, he couldn’t say a word because when he was notified, he was attending an important meeting. Therefore, he asked me to make a call with the team just to celebrate.
The idea was telling the team about the importance of the project and that he was very proud and happy with them.
The team was delighted. I think that kind of actions are so great because people feel heard and supported by the company.

Despite this meeting, I couldn’t help thinking about all the successes we had during the year, and we didn’t celebrate. As I wrote before, the routine keeps us moving forward. We get a new project, complete it, start a another, and so on. Hence, next year my first goal will be celebrating every step we will be taking.

What if you take the time to think about how many steps have you been taking during the year? What are your achievements? How many goals have you reached? And the most important, what have you learned?

Remember that you learn from your victories, but you learn more from your failures. Therefore, you should have learnt something. Only for that, round of applause!