Decisions...In Life and in Hurricane Irma

I’m sitting in my favorite coffee shop, writing this blog.

 All everyone around me is talking about…all everyone is texting and emailing me about…is Hurricane Irma.

Specifically, people are trying to decide whether to evacuate or ride it out.

 Which got me to thinking.

 This is an easy decision for those in south Florida. Many areas are in a required evacuation; for others, it’s pretty much evacuate or write your name on your body.

For us, however, it’s not such a black-and-white decision.

Like many of the decisions we make in our businesses and our jobs.

 I wrote my all-time favorite blog about this time last year, after Hurricane Hermine had taken a direct hit on Tallahassee. In my signature positive spin, I wrote about how we should be like that hurricane.

 Here’s the link: “Why We Should All Be More Like Hurricane Hermine”

 I’d like to offer some parallels between the decisions we’re making about Hurricane Irma and the decisions required of us in our daily lives.

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