Celebration... A reflection and an action

This is my last blog for 2019. Now that is something to celebrate.

I have spent time this week considering what to celebrate and how to do it.

Affectus has had another amazing year. We have

had shocks to get through
celebrated our resilience
had change that we have managed
embraced this and felt grateful
had wonderful success with valued clients who have cheered and joined with us in congratulations
had a sense of achievement during those moments

We are completing 2019 with a great sense of positive anticipation.

Celebrations

How do you celebrate?

What have been the celebration moments during 2019 that have stuck with you?

How will you take those celebration processes and activities into the new decade?

As I look back over the 12 months these are the meaningful ways that I have witnessed celebrations where we have been the centre of or on the edge of.

having fun with new and old friends on a dance floor
promises in front of huge audience
reflective conversations with valued colleagues about essential issues
quiet times with loved ones
adventures with friends to commemorate historical moments
collective moments with our team grieving about loss and laughing about next steps
public statements through social media

Mostly for me celebration is a remembering process and a looking forward process.

What will you remember as 2019 finishes?

How will you be packaging those moments of celebration and carrying them with you into 2020?

What process will you use to think through the moments?

Sometimes we need a bit of a process to help us capture the celebratory moments and carry them forward.

Do you need a process?

A celebration formula

Once upon a time I hit on a formula what worked for most people. And it was a meaningful and semi-public way of people sharing their times of celebration.

It was just two simple questions that we each answered well before the clock clicked over into the new year. These questions might be useful and they are pretty simple.

1. What was great about this year?

My answer will be:

the people I worked with
the people I changed the world with
the people who took a risk and changed their world
the people who are my family
the Affectus folk and the people who have engaged with us
the people who have engaged us to assist them to help people change the world through leadership action.

2. What are you going to celebrate this time next year?

I anticipate my answer will be

“the people I have seen courageously take leadership action and change the world”.

Let’s celebrate! What a year!

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