Are you?

[JBloggs]

Innspiration today from ThinkDaily.com
A Sense of Destiny
Do you believe that you are here to be normal? Maybe a little less?
Or do you believe that you are here for some special reason, to accomplish something extraordinary, and be special in some way?

 

[JBloggs]

and from Thinkdaily.com for business owners:
A bigger difference
Your company is rewarded for how much of a difference you make for how many people.
How can your organization affect more people more meaningfully?

 

[Morticia]

The older I get - I used to think I was special and here to do great things. Now I realize I'm no more special than the next person and the greatest thing I can do is to be myself and and either help or get out of the way.

 

[Silverspoon]

and from Thinkdaily.com for business owners:
A bigger difference
Your company is rewarded for how much of a difference you make for how many people.
How can your organization affect more people more meaningfully?.

My new philosophy is that a happy innkeeper is more likely to generate happy guests. So this year we are going to make sure we are HAPPY innkeepers, which means we will be scaling back so we do not turn into burnt toast by August! We will not be able to make too many improvements but we hope to maintain this old homestead and welcome each guest with open arms.

 

[gillumhouse]

I firmly believe I was put on this Earth to accomplish - something. It does not have to be something big or great. It may be as small as crossing a street, locking eyes with someone and smiling because at that moment THAT is important to THAT person. Until I do whatever I am supposed to, I will be fine. Once that is done, I will be history. I know it was not the B & Bs For Vets, because I am still here. That is too big for someone as insignificant as me.
As for my "organization"? We each touch the lives of every guest who enters our B & B as they touch ours. We affect them with our caring, our place of refuge from their busy lives, and yes, sometimes the abuse we take from the PITAs as the relief for the usual recipient of that abuse. (And for some, it may be a one time due to something we have no knowledge of that upon reflection they are totally ashamed of but cannot admit to for an apology.)

 

[TheBeachHouse]

I don't know why I'm here but everytime we follow our nose to the next step, it feels like a good move.
Remember "Close Encounters of the Third Kind?" Remember he kept making a mountain out of potatoes and later found himself drawn to that mountain?
In my 30s, I made doll houses. I built and furnished them myself. The first one was a four room house. Two upstairs and two downstairs. I furnished it with furniture I built. Later, we would move across the country and buy a four room house - two over two. And the couch was the same color as the one in the doll house.
Later, I made a bigger house. 6 bedrooms. Three stories. I had so much fun wallpapering and building beds and making canopies and bedskirts. Well, you know what the next step was. And here we are. Living in our mashed potato mountain.

 

[Country Girl]

The older I get - I used to think I was special and here to do great things. Now I realize I'm no more special than the next person and the greatest thing I can do is to be myself and and either help or get out of the way..

The older I get - I used to think I was special and here to do great things. Now I realize I'm no more special than the next person and the greatest thing I can do is to be myself and and either help or get out of the way.

I disagree. I think you're pretty special.

 

[Country Girl]

I am one of those people who truly believes that we are all uniquely special and all a tad bit weird, and that's a good thing. I don't know anyone who is "normal". Certainly makes accepting others a whole lot easier. "Judge not"... type of thinking.

 

[Lee2014]

We are all special and here to make life special and better to those we touch. A taste of heaven on earth!

 

[Ice]

Is anyone else doing or have done what they liked to play as a child? I liked playing house and resort (would play this after coming home from vacation). I loved being a Mom and now Innkeeper. Remember if you like what your doing you don't work a day in your life. OK so cleaning really sucks, but I love doing laundry!

 

[charlie may]

" I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life"

 

[Morticia]

Is anyone else doing or have done what they liked to play as a child? I liked playing house and resort (would play this after coming home from vacation). I loved being a Mom and now Innkeeper. Remember if you like what your doing you don't work a day in your life. OK so cleaning really sucks, but I love doing laundry!.

Nope. I'm doing everything I hated as a child. Teen. Young adult. Married person. Mother. Single person. Etc.
Found out I am temperamentally unsuited for what I thought I wanted to do - teacher. Locking me in a room with 30 8 year olds for 6 hours with no adult company was not what it looked like from the student side of the desk. I guess I thought being a teacher meant knowing everything there was to know and helping someone else to know it, too.
I'm still searching. I keep trying different things.

 

[gillumhouse]

Is anyone else doing or have done what they liked to play as a child? I liked playing house and resort (would play this after coming home from vacation). I loved being a Mom and now Innkeeper. Remember if you like what your doing you don't work a day in your life. OK so cleaning really sucks, but I love doing laundry!.

Is anyone else doing or have done what they liked to play as a child? I liked playing house and resort (would play this after coming home from vacation). I loved being a Mom and now Innkeeper. Remember if you like what your doing you don't work a day in your life. OK so cleaning really sucks, but I love doing laundry!

I admit to anyone - My Mother is in her grave on rotate with laughter because I am now in a profession where I HAVE to clean house.

 

[happykeeper]

The older I get - I used to think I was special and here to do great things. Now I realize I'm no more special than the next person and the greatest thing I can do is to be myself and and either help or get out of the way..

Sometimes self diagnosis works, but not in this case. It's not whether you are MORE special, it is that you are special and you do great things. I am certain that is the case.

 

[Silverspoon]

I try to be the best person I can be, following the Golden Rule and accepting the fact that we are all human. I hope I am special to my friends, family, guests and innmates

, but beyond that I am really just a regular person doing the best I can.
With that said, I have never aspired to accomplish great things. I am awed by those who do, and applaud the effort and self-sacrifice it takes to make a difference that counts, beyond the immediate area.

 

[Silverspoon]

I don't know why I'm here but everytime we follow our nose to the next step, it feels like a good move.
Remember "Close Encounters of the Third Kind?" Remember he kept making a mountain out of potatoes and later found himself drawn to that mountain?
In my 30s, I made doll houses. I built and furnished them myself. The first one was a four room house. Two upstairs and two downstairs. I furnished it with furniture I built. Later, we would move across the country and buy a four room house - two over two. And the couch was the same color as the one in the doll house.
Later, I made a bigger house. 6 bedrooms. Three stories. I had so much fun wallpapering and building beds and making canopies and bedskirts. Well, you know what the next step was. And here we are. Living in our mashed potato mountain..

 

[Tom]

and from Thinkdaily.com for business owners:
A bigger difference
Your company is rewarded for how much of a difference you make for how many people.
How can your organization affect more people more meaningfully?.

My new philosophy is that a happy innkeeper is more likely to generate happy guests. So this year we are going to make sure we are HAPPY innkeepers, which means we will be scaling back so we do not turn into burnt toast by August! We will not be able to make too many improvements but we hope to maintain this old homestead and welcome each guest with open arms.
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Win - Win

 

[happykeeper]

and from Thinkdaily.com for business owners:
A bigger difference
Your company is rewarded for how much of a difference you make for how many people.
How can your organization affect more people more meaningfully?.

My new philosophy is that a happy innkeeper is more likely to generate happy guests. So this year we are going to make sure we are HAPPY innkeepers, which means we will be scaling back so we do not turn into burnt toast by August! We will not be able to make too many improvements but we hope to maintain this old homestead and welcome each guest with open arms.
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An insistence on being happy has saved more than one situation that could have gone south like Siberian Express.

 

[Skamokawa]

I try to be the best person I can be, following the Golden Rule and accepting the fact that we are all human. I hope I am special to my friends, family, guests and innmates

, but beyond that I am really just a regular person doing the best I can.
With that said, I have never aspired to accomplish great things. I am awed by those who do, and applaud the effort and self-sacrifice it takes to make a difference that counts, beyond the immediate area..