A SUITE PLACE FOR independent living

In and around The Villages, a basic 400-square-foot apartment in a assisted living facility can start at $36,000 per year. Even those who have adequately planned for retirement may find this expense unbearable.

Fortunately, there is another option being offered by Hometown Builders, a local Certified General Contractor based in Wildwood.

Multigenerational is the term used to describe these specialized living spaces that can accommodate your mom or dad, your son or daughter who’s just getting started in life, or just old friends and neighbors from back home that love to visit any time of the year. Its living area that is close enough for you to check in on your loved one with ease but private enough where everyone enjoys their own space.

“Both my husband and I have benefited from the amazing care in the Florida Hospital Waterman Emergency Department. We choose to support the expansion of Emergency Services through the Florida Hospital Waterman Foundation because it’s important to us to have the best hospital care available for our family, friends and future generations. As our community grows, our hospital must grow as well. We are excited to invest in Building a HealthiER Lake County.”

— Ann Rou, long-time supporter of the Florida Hospital Waterman Foundation

More than business problems, we have people problems. Unfortunately, today’s generation has become very comfortable with technology but uncomfortable with people. When we take care of our people problems most of the business problems are automatically resolved if we remember these important lessons:

• We are hired for our skills but fired for our behavior.

• The lower a person is in life, the greater part of his time goes into technical skills, with very less emphasis on building people skills. The higher a person is in life reverses this.

• We can always buy technology and technicians with money, but the wealthiest person in the world must build and create relationships.

• A courteous person who is not very sharp in life will go much further

• Why do you go to a doctor 10 miles away and bypass 10 other doctors on the way? Is he the most qualified? Probably not! Something says that I am dealing with the right person. And what is uence, convince, negotiate, and sell. Some of the most successful people in the world have

There is a myth that we need to learn the tactics of selling. Good professionals learn the principles of persuasion, not tactics, because the principles are based on a foundation of integrity while tactics are manipulative. There is another myth that, to succeed, one needs to learn the tricks of the trade. Professionals learn the trade; they leave the tricks to the cheats and crooks. People always talk about sales as B2B or B2C. But every

PRIORITIZING SKILLS:

These skills are embedded in our core values. The number of time-saving devices we have today is more than at any other time in history. Yet, we don’t have time to do the things we need or want to do. Why? Because, we lost our priorities. When we lose our priorities:

• We forget to distinguish between what’s urgent and what’s important. Urgent may or may not be important, and the reverse is just as true. But whenever we ignore what’s important, it converts into urgent. Example, health is important. Exercising every day is important, but if I skip it one day, it’s not the end of the world. But, if I ignore it long enough, guess what will happen? I could end up in the hospital. It will convert into urgent.

• We forget to distinguish between what’s negotiable and what’s not, and what we would stand for and what we would stand against. If we look at the life histories of some of the greatest leaders of the world, we find that they were never neutral on values. They either stood for something or against something. For example, Abraham Lincoln took a stand against slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. championed the civil rights movement.

• We forget to distinguish between pleasure and happiness in life. Pleasures have always come from outside and they are temporary, whereas happiness has always come from inside and is lasting.

• We forget to distinguish between making money and earning money. Making money and earning money are two different things. Unfortunately, most people only want to make money; very few

• Remember, this life is not a dress rehearsal and the stakes are too high. So, today is the day you need to master these three P’s of