Marking small occasions — 500 posts

So, we are now at 500 posts since I committed to posting every day on this site.

Today I am thinking about marking occasions.

Marking Occasions

As I go about my day, it would have been easy to miss this minor milestone of 500 posts, as I find writing daily a natural part of my rhythm now.

So many things to do each day, only one of which is to focus for something around an hour to write that day’s post.

How often do we decide not to pause, even for a moment, to mark occasions small or large?

It can be as tiny as looking up and seeing the sky (as a Scot, the photo below was from a moment where I was walking through the City of London to lunch last week, I marked it with taking a moment to photograph it).

In leadership, am sure most remember to mark the large moments. What about the small moments?

Perhaps you hear that a new team member has just made their first sale. Perhaps take a moment to go to their desk and recognise that.

Perhaps someone else just finished the MBA they have been studying part time for two…