Recently speaking to a group of educators in western North Carolina I learned that they too also share in the back to school butterflies.  Kids get them, adults need to listen to them.  It does not seem to matter how many years we go through this August ritual. The night before we meet our new students we get butterflies!  I told my audience I thought it was natures way of letting us know just how much we enjoy and value what we educators do!

Here’s to all the individuals feeling the butterflies…..

I can’t believe it is August!  Folks in the southeast are enjoying fresh goodies from their gardens and folks in the northeast are still waiting for summer to arrive!  This continues to be a very challenging time for individuals and businesses of every make and shape and when getting though a day sometimes means  we are okay!  People everywhere are being asked to do more with less…at home, in the workplace, in school…these are tough times for just about everyone.  I was recently speaking to a group of destination employees and they were telling me all about their low morale, their being asked for more…I told them their comes a time when it is all about personal pride.  People can choose to complain, grumble, spread and speak the negatives of work life here or there but sooner or later the movers and shakers will zip their lips and get on with work!  They will choose to step up to the plate or leave the game and should they choose to leave, that is perfectly okay because they will then go in search of their perfect world.  It really is what we make it to be.