100 months in & it's been lots of fun...

I am very proud to say that today marks the completion of my 100th month running my business Merriborn Media. I thought about this monthly landmark when I got lots of #LinkedIn messages at the end of May. Many people kindly congratulated me on my so-called "work anniversary" of 8 years in business, something of which I was completely unaware. But then, I thought, 8 years x 12 months = 96 and so today, 30th September, is a landmark that I feel far more strongly about. Merriborn Media is 100 months old!

Along the way, I've met lots of people and had lots of fun. I'm always very grateful for everyone's kind words, of course, but in truth the annual landmark meant little to me. I had read - as many of you may have done - that most businesses fold within two years. Here I was, still going for 4x that length - and for me this is because I didn't think too much about anniversaries. Instead, it was the monthly disciplines, strategies, targets and innovations that felt far more motivational - and which have driven my business longevity.

This isn't the triumph of short-term thinking - far from it. I do reflect as much as anyone else at the end of the year around what's been achieved or not. But to me, simply making it to the end of each month gives me a special, more exciting, pleasure .... and this evening I will take quiet satisfaction from becoming a monthly centurion.