I’m coming up on 18 months in my new roles. It provides a nice round number to pause and reflect about the impact of the change. Interestingly, the thought that keeps coming back to me is how anniversaries are terrible times to really understand the impact of change.
Birthdays and anniversaries come with so many built-in perceptions. As you come up on a new big day, your general perception of anniversaries is the single biggest influencer in how you look at the next. If you love celebrating milestones, you are going to look forward longingly to the next one. If you don’t love milestones, you probably aren’t looking forward to it.
Having blogged for, what feels like, a very long time, I have discovered that random days throughout the year are actually better for reflection. Self-reflection should be an on-going process that is not constrained to specific milestones. Certainly, use those milestones as part of your own process if you want, but don’t limit yourself only to those.