I'm guilty!  Every now and then I look at my life and realize that I am very well connected.  Not so much in a networking manner, but in a gadget and technology way!  Every day I  turn to emails, social media, and chat messengers for daily communications. Often I seem to prefer that to any face-to-face (or voice-to voice) method of communication. Might you be as connected as I am?

Like you, most of my work is online. Especially now in a COVID world, I am Zooming, texting, emailing, updating, reserving, and doing more and more online than ever before.

In my downtime, I surf interesting sites, watch streaming movies, and get sucked into the black hole that has become Facebook. Even when there is nothing to…

That sound you hear is time passing and it is making us all a bit anxious. Whatever has happened during the  year,  we can make what is left of 2020 more productive and move into 2021 with some force by gearing up a business plan. But never has the challenge been so great as we are all now operating in totally unfamiliar territory. The contradictory information, the tremendous social change occurring and the lack of certainty make planning more like a tarot card reading than a business exercise.  Nevertheless, those of us serious about our industry must persist.

I still find some solace in a calendar.  The seasons, the holidays, the rites of passage are all still right there. An important part of every business plan, and…

For those of you who speak Italian, you know exactly what I am saying today. ‘The car goes where your eyes go’ is the English translation as far as I know. This was a quote taken from the book The Art of Racing in The Rain. (A very good book as seen from the eyes of a…