In Tip 9 I shared how business or a career isn’t a journey in just one straight line. Similarly, there isn’t just one moment where everything comes in and you’ve won the game. Unless you reach a retirement goal or sell your business of course – I’m not there yet!

Many people will tell you to celebrate the moments, the small wins that come your way. Even then, it’s hard to tell when the right point to celebrate is. From my perspective, the most obvious ‘big wins’ come when getting agreement from a new client to work with them or when a new book deal is agreed, the manuscript is submitted or the book is published.

But, all too often, those moments don’t feel like the appropriate time to celebrate. They are simply the beginning of a more important journey and the join is seamless. Do I celebrate a new client working with me when they shake hands on the deal, when the paperwork arrives, when the first sessions are in the diary or when payment lands? The moment to open the Champagne never appears to be obvious as, before you know it, you’re on the next leg of the journey and the moment has passed.

So yes to celebrating your moments, but it’s important both to recognise when they appear and to find the right way to celebrate in what may feel like a fleeting instant.

Don’t just make it the big moments for yourself – celebrate a win for a client or colleague that you’ve been able to enable in some way, as much as you’d celebrate a win for yourself. Celebrate the support you have built around you, take time to recognise the impact you have had on others and the impact you’ve allowed them to have on you.

We do need to celebrate but sometimes the ‘moments’ are not obvious. Blink, and you’ll miss them.