Keys to Success Hospitality Tip of the Week - Focus on APPRECIATION

A business and a personal message.



A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 note. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 note?"

Hands started going up.  He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.

He proceeded to crumple up the $20 note.
He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.
Well, he replied, "What if I do this?"

And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

Still the hands went into the air.

My friends,
we have all learned a very valuable lesson.

No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that
come our way.

We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely  creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know,
but by WHO WE ARE. You are special- Don't EVER forget it

" Pass this on, you may never know the lives it touches,
the hurting hearts it speaks to, or the hope that it can bring.......

Count your blessings, not your problems.

This has been attributed to a number of sources and while I do not know the original author, I thank her/him on behalf of the many people I have shared this message with in programs, classes and my writing.

Dr. John Hogan CHE CHA CMHS
Hotelier, Speaker, Educator, Columnist

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