What's your passion?
I’ve spent the past 90 days working at a beautiful country retreat in Colorado. In my years in hotels, I’ve never experienced the connection that guests have with hotel staffs like they do with small innkeepers. It’s a very intimate business relationship. Last week I spoke with a guest from Switzerland. The first question he asked me was, “What’s your passion?” Wow. You don’t get that question every day. Usually the perfunctory, “How are you?” and “Great” or “Fine” response is the norm. I had to think. But, I had to answer quickly too. I’m one who believes in living your passion. But how could I be living my passion if I couldn’t even tell someone what is was. The first thing that came to mind was, “Travel”. The next was a question to myself, “Where? When?” Here was an American man who had just moved from Switzerland with his lover after living in France for two years together. That sounded like a pretty good life to me! I wondered what his passion was,