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Here we are, the last message for 2022. Monday starts my 15^th year writing the Arte of Motivation.

 

·      We do things

·      Because we can.

·      But some things we

·      Do because we simply

·      Love doing them… period.

 

I tell the story often that these began as discussion starters for the pre-opening team’s daily briefings at the Resort at Pelican Hill. After opening, department managers there asked me to continue so they could use them in their pre-shift meetings. And two years later when I left, their President asked me to continue sending them in. They were based on their company’s 10 values – and each week I would focus on one of them. And now – 14 years, 728 weeks, and 3640 messages later, I’m still doing them. Interestingly, this last week of 2022’s value is Integrity, the one I think we need now more than ever. Because if you have integrity, nothing else matters; and if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters. As we close out another year, I am hopeful that everyone will make a resolution to act with integrity in the new year. Because nothing else matters… today and every day.

 

Alan Kooi Simpson (born 1931): American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97).