Celebrate

We recently went up to Atlanta for a trip and ended up at the Coke Museum. We were so excited.  We were going to go in, we were going to drink ourselves into a sugary oblivion and then spend lots of money at the gift store.

But, right when we walked in the front door we were hit by a mandatory Coca-Cola film. We were ready to party with some stomach ache-inducing beverages; we didn't want to watch a film.

We begrudgingly got the kids seated, and prepared for 10 minutes of eye-rolling 8 year olds (okay, and 37 years olds).  But, by the end of the four-minute film, I was sobbing my eyes out. 

How could a Coca-Cola film make me cry so much? It was this vignette of all these different life circumstances. 

There was a retirement party, a surprise for Grandma, a team of people who had made it to the top of the mountain... and there was one common theme among all of them.

Surprisingly, it wasn't Coca-Cola. It was that they had done this together, and there was a great celebration. I left there with mascara all over my face and my kids looking at me like I had six heads. 

I thought  - what if we did this more within our organizations? What if we stopped, put the brakes on the hamster wheel we're constantly running on and we celebrated our successes?

Every time my clients meet one of their goals I say "great, how are we celebrating?" The achievements that we have won't have the same impact if we don't stop and acknowledge them.

We need to be celebrating our achievements. We also need to be celebrating the achievements of others. 
So, go grab a coke and plan out how you can celebrate your next success.

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