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"Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories." – Miller Williams, contemporary poet and translator. [Image]( CREATE RITUALS This is for you... {NAME}. Rituals help you design a life with purpose. You get together with your family over Christmas and Thanksgiving. You celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks. You give presents to people on their birthday. You take your kids out trick-or-treating on Halloween. If you’re not American, you have other rituals that are specific to your culture. You set aside time for these rituals to spend time with and celebrate with your family. Rituals are important to business too. Awards and ceremonies for great employees encourage the team to do better. Outside work activities like company softball teams or charity events bring people closer together. Sales rewards and contests encourage more sales. Celebrating birthdays and important milestones makes people feel important. Beer Fridays fosters community building. Rituals build and reinforce the culture you are creating. If you want to design a powerful culture around your One Word, start by thinking about what are the behaviors that you want to recognize, encourage, and promote. If your One Word is #Calm, then you could create Meditation Mondays to kickstart your week with a group meditation. You could give someone the chance to pick the #Calm music for the office. You could reward the customer service rep who was most #Calm with a customer each week. Share their story and make them feel proud. People will love these rituals or hate them. And that’s the point. Your rituals define your business. They show your team who you really are and what you really value. Your rituals should polarize people so that they can’t wait to be involved or they want to run the other way. That’s how you build a culture that is meaningful and effective. I’ve built my company’s rituals around #Believe. Learn how in my book, Your One Word: [( #Believe PS. I'm doing a 90 day, 23 city tour. Am I coming to your city? [Image]( Toronto Dance Salsa, attention: Evan Carmichael 5095 Yonge Street Toronto Ontario M2N 6Z4 CANADA [Unsubscribe]( | [Change Subscriber Options](