How Celebrating Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones Builds Tradition

HOW WE CELEBRATE milestones means one thing. Should you’re like me, your birthday just isn’t solely celebrated by you however by these round you. All of us have that one cellphone name, textual content, card, or message we stay up for and till we get it really feel just like the day isn’t full.

In our household, we now have our wonderful Aunt Mary who remembers each birthday, commencement, anniversary, or large household occasion and takes time to let it’s particular. So long as I can keep in mind, we now have all acquired a card with $2 greenback payments in it that provides as much as the age we’re celebrating (plus $1 greenback if it’s an odd 12 months). For perspective, she is one in every of eight children … that’s quite a lot of milestones to recollect.

My 7-year-old now understands the Aunt Mary playing cards and reminded her not too long ago that he was solely 7 and requested why she gave him three further {dollars} this 12 months. He then advised her she may have simply used a $10 invoice as an alternative of all of the $1 and $2 payments and it could have been simpler. It made us giggle and allowed us a second to share along with her how particular this has all made us really feel all through the years.

Why am I telling you this? Not too long ago, I had a tremendous government assistant be part of our workforce who has jogged my memory how necessary milestones are for our workforce and the way, because the chief, it’s necessary I take a second to acknowledge them. (Even when they fall on a weekend… Dianne… celebrating her 18th 12 months with West Broward Eyecare.) Sure, it looks like rather a lot when you’re busy working a enterprise to maintain observe of what looks like a little bit factor. Bear in mind: it’s the little issues that make your workforce really feel valued, that you just’re displaying up for them like theyr’e displaying up for you.

Take a second to mirror on what you’d need if you happen to have been an worker and it was your birthday or your one, 5 or 10-year work anniversary. Ask your self what would make you’re feeling particular and appreciated, and construct from there. Will you have fun all that month’s birthdays and anniversaries collectively? Will you have fun every individually? Will a private card with a present card be your present or is an workplace lunch so as?

My government assistant has put all these fantastic milestones on my grasp calendar and creates a month-to-month poster which hangs in our lunchroom showcasing who and what we’re celebrating that month. It’s one thing I’m now taking from my Aunt Mary’s playbook.

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We stay in a extra disconnected world than ever; it’s the connections we make, and acknowledging these connections, that we’ll keep in mind and be remembered for. It’d look like you’re going above and past however birthdays and anniversaries imply one thing to most of us.

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