How do you celebrate business milestones? 🎉

[tranguyen]

Happy Wednesday, folks 💖

For all businesses, it’s important to stay on top of your goals and track your progress to see how much it has grown. But something @MudFire_Dex said last week really resonated with me — it’s important to keep track of business milestones and celebrate them too! Doing so can help boost morale and create a sense of pride.

We’d love to know:

How do you celebrate business milestones?

What kind of milestones do you celebrate — is it just anniversaries or also when you’re exceeding sales and revenue goals? Do you celebrate with your team only, or do you also host special events in-store for customers?

Can’t wait to read all your replies below! 🎉

[maxpete]

Glad you all get to do it up for the 65th!

[tranguyen]

65 years is an incredible milestone, @VanKalkerFarms! I'm so glad you'll be able to celebrate properly this round.

[DPR_FURN]

We celebrate by taking a weekend off and flying down to Cabo Mexico for the weekend. we rent a big airbnb with a pool and also rent a yacht one of the days for a couple of hours. Everyone comes home refresh and ready to give there 100% at work

[Fairestcape]

Celebrating hitting milestones is not as important as analysing the reasons when milestones were missed (which can be more common occurences).

Our company regards "failure" as missed opportunities. We don't penalise failure - we look at what failed, and why. Everyone in the company can make bad decisions - including me... the boss. When something fails (or does not meet expectations) we try to work out why, and how we need to fix it.

When we fix our mistakes / bad decisions (including mine), we celebrate.
In the normal course of business (ie: when expected milestones are achieved), there's nothing really to celebrate (things are going to plan).

We celebrate when something went horibly wrong - and we then fix it. That's worth celebrating.

[caseyp]

Thanks for this question.  I have never really thought about this that much.  It's my intention to take a day Quarterly and a long weekend yearly to review and plan, but since my "business" is only me, I tend to overlook the idea of celebration.  I'll start considering this more!

[maxpete]

Always celebrate yourself for all that you've done!

[CareyJo]

And take more than a day and a weekend!  You deserve more!  We do not have employees or another company that can support our clients in our place.  We close in February for two weeks every year... during a crucial season for our industry.  But that's when our designated time is and it cannot be changed.  That time is chartered by another company and we have no control over it.  We've learned how valuable that time is.