Cheer Up Buttercup - We've Got This

Time to Cheer Up

One thing I know to be true about this industry, we have a servants heart. I've never met a group of more caring, conscientious and sensitive people then in the chauffeured transportation community.

In my years with LCT, one of the things that gave me the greatest pleasure was combing though our awards applications and reading the hundreds of stories about their charitable deeds and acts of kindness from operators around the world.

It's time to dust ourselves off. We're chugging back to life, yes, but thanks to the political climate finding our smiles again will be hard fought and hard won. It's a toxic and very negative environment but YOU can change that.

Let's pledge to earmark an hour a day to connect with clients to do nothing more then offer our services and to do something that's helpful. For instance, you can offer a vehicle for their favorite charity. I promise you if your clients businesses don't have a charitable arm, the C level executives at those companies do.

If you don't have access to your clients, reach out to your community. There are local nonprofits everywhere that are shorthanded. At my home we have a traveling nurse and her son staying with us for three months. It's not much, but it's something. If everyone in our industry does one small act of kindness to lift another person up we will restore ourselves at the same time we will heal our economy so much faster. There's a lot to be said for attitude. The happier we are the more optimistic we become. People with optimism MOVE FASTER. We need to be energized to be able to think straight and have the fortitude to work our businesses back. People are getting depressed from all the bad news. Let's change that mood by doing good.

Get out there and help. Offer a hand to your customers, your friends, your community, even a stranger. Watch miracles happen.

Yours truly,
Sara Eastwood-Richardson