Do Me A Favor. Go Waste Some Money
...on yourself!
Have you treated/rewarded yourself lately?
I'm sure you have made the achievements to justify it.
Let me go back a little bit. I've been working away for some months on a new project, and on September 27th it "went live". A few days later on October 1st, I made my first sale from this project, to the sum of $125 (all mine).
Obviously, I was pretty happy with this and am now in the process of turning that into many more sales, but that's not the point of today's little story.
Whilst *celebrating* on gchat with another WA member, they said to me. "Go waste that $100 on a nice dinner date".
My reply was actually: "Well..I have start-up costs to pay off" (Every time I had a new fee, I told myself I would spend my first earnings paying it off)
Their reply was: "You've worked hard for the last few months. You'll get more sales, but you'll never get another FIRST sale."
I guess that sold me. I quite liked the idea of a celebratory dinner anyway. My girlfriend did too. Last night we went out and spent $150 (why not go nuts?) on a nice dinner for two.
It Got Me Thinking
It doesn't just have to be a big $100 + sale or income that deserves rewarding does it?
Here are some things you could (and should) celebrate:
- Getting your site online in the first place (have yourself a beer/glass of wine/something similar)
- Getting your first sale (the income might not be much, but definitely do something to treat yourself!)
- Your first 100 unique visitors to your site
- Your first 200 visits in a month
- Your first $100 month (Take Benjamin Franklin out for a date, he's a classy guy)
Obviously, if you have bills to pay, fine, you can't go nuts. But remember what I was told.
"You'll never get another FIRST sale" (Unless you like starting again a lot like I do.)
Also..it's very important to reward yourself and keep going.
Let's celebrate something together, what have you achieved lately? Write it below.
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Great article. Great looking teppanyaki.Yum. Nothing like that in okie land, but I did pay myself for a return home to Oz. ^_~
Teppanyaki was next door. I had the steak! Paying yourself for a flight home is even cooler!
LoL - Good for you. As a coach I always advise people that they should celebrate different milestones and yet it's something I fail miserably to do myself. Good for you - glad you both enjoyed it.
LOL. Taiwan has its share of premium venues. This was in the Regent hotel. Soup, salad bar, bread, cheese, 8oz steak, desert buffet, coffee x 2
Ah yes it's important to celebrate milestones in our businesses! You've been grinding away at this for a while, you deserve it! Plus, I'm sure your gf greatly appreciated the fancy meal :)
I launched a website for her too so it was a joint celebration, and she did appreciate it indeed :)
Congrats on your achievement. Rewarding yourself can be fun.
Looks like you had a wonderful dinner if the pic is representative of their fare.
Great ideas. I will be honest and say that when I earned my first WA commission from someone who made an annual payment I was so excited that I went out and bought the theme I had recently discovered...and was salivating over. Good idea to reward yourself. I also took the family for ice cream with the next occurrence. Such fun. Thanks for this, Dom.
It's also a great way to motivate yourself for more sales too. The money just seems so much more REAL!
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Congrats on your first sale and treating yourself on your accomplishments is a must, wishing you many, many more!
thanks :) same to you of course!