I spent most of the day celebrating my daughter’s 4th year here on planet earth and I loved it. Baking (from 100% scratch) 6-layer cakes and chocolate covered pretzels at 2 in the morning only to turn around and serve them a few hours later to 15 or so of her friends was fantastic!
I love celebrations; we don’t nearly do this enough and it reminded me of a very important principle that applies even to blogging: What is celebrated is repeated.
Check out my thoughts via video after the jump.
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I try to do this with this blog and all the other blogs that keep my attention. I also have learned to do this with the organizations that I lead. It’s extremely important and probably can’t be done too much (well, maybe…).
For those interested, the book referenced in the video is Andy Stanley’s Making Vision Stick.
Celebrate the wins in and out of business – you’ll be a happier and more fulfilled person!
What’s celebrated is repeated. Love it. That’s good advice for just about anything in life… blogging, relationships, careers, etc. Thanks for the reminder John!
sure thing graham!
Family=awesome. What’s your background?
Mine is Central-America. Honduras to be Specific.
south korean.
ah
so you must of heard of Pastor David Yonggi Cho.
hmm. not sure…
He’s just a Korean-Christian-Minister with the Largest Congregation in the world. About 900,000 members.
Check him out.
i’ve been there: http://vimeo.com/2453753 and http://vimeo.com/2453660
That is just insane. Must of been a cool experience to see that massive amount of people. WOAH!
pretty insane. it was a crazy experience!
Roenne == #win
peace | dewde
agreed. and… today is more roenne and win.
while(Roenne > John) {
John.blog();
}
$ warning: infinite loop.
shoo. you go away too.
One of these days, you’re going to try and enumerate interfaces IRL and the normies are going to lock you up.
peace | dewde
k.
awesome – 6 layer cakes at 2am; from scratch? Wow.
fortunately my wife isn’t really a blog reader so she’ll miss this post for sure, phew. lol.
Congrats to Roenne and you guys on the birthday and what must have been a cool party
hah! is she on twitter?
Awesome John! I’ve discovered since being a father of two. Your parents forget (sometimes) that you’re alive, and that it’s all about the grands
Celebrations? Definitely!
thanks dewitt!
Cute stuff dude. So are you going to corner the Christian Bakers niche after 8bit?!?
HAHAHAHA! Don’t tempt him… he’ll do it!
peace | dewde
shoo. go away.
not even sure what that means……….
*plans takeover*
Great advice. Its easy to get so sold out on your long term goals that you don’t take joy in the process or the small wins.
definitely! love it jud.
Happy Happy Belated Birthday to Roenne because turning 4 is major!
thanks guys!
Hey John,
1. Congrats on the birthday celebration! Our oldest is also 4 years old and it is a fun time for sure!
2. Since this is Tentblogger, I’ve got a blog question too. I noticed that the Amazon link to the Andy Stanley book is formatted as tentblogger.com/likes/makingvisionstick. How did you do that?
tom,
thanks!
we’ll discuss that strategy in an upcoming post!
I’ve been anxiously awaiting the answer to that question as well. You’ve got me hooked!
Great stuff, John. We are discussing and looking at how to do this more effectively in our church. It seems a lot of churches don’t celebrate well. But, it is essential. I hadn’t considered in the context of blogging. Thanks for pointing this out! I will immediately start looking for opps to do it!!
Kudos to you and your wife for making a “big deal” out of Roenne’s birthday. They are big deals, for sure! We still try to do that and our daughter is 21!!
SWEET! tha’ts awesome. gotta keep it up.!
Celebrating a monumental milestone…
http://drp.ly/O2e5
WHOOT!!!!!
double digits. Do a happy dance!
I’m going to celebrate with a Starbucks Espresso Con Panne, then I will definitely have enough energy for a happy dance.
That should say “Con Panna”… don’t want to get called out on that one.
perhaps you’re like jared who can’t spell.
My spelling depends greatly on how focused/tired or distracted I am. And yes, I can’t spell.
win.
Great post! Love that principle.
Interesting fact: I’m friends with Sue from our time together in Seoul. Small world. (I went by Mary, my real name, back then.)
wow. neat! i’ll ask her about you!
Such a simple but effective principle. I love it. I only wish I had heard it earlier.
Thanks!
Beauty.
simplified.