President’s Update

Off and Running

The season has started for all of us, no matter which segment of this industry you are in. This issue won’t release until June and it’s tough to gauge where we might be or what we might be doing this summer. I know in my years as a superintendent and now as a sales professional that some things, no matter what time of the year, never change. Our devotion to doing the best job possible for ourselves, for members or more importantly our families, is as strong as ever. We make product, equipment and staffing decisions to give us the best season we can strive for. In doing all this preparation and fueling that love for the industry, we can lose out on simple things. How about planning a day with the family? How about a dinner after work with an old friend? These don’t take much planning or effort and yet they become very hard things to accomplish amid the hustle and bustle of the season.

This season, no matter what preparation we all took to make it successful, I hope we all allocate the necessary time to reconnect. With our staff, family, friends and old colleagues. Take time to appreciate everything around us. Just call a friend out of the blue and make their day. ‘It takes an army,’ but you never know what army of support you have if you don’t make time to reach out. Now on the sales side, I see how burned out this season makes us all. We are in our own routines, on our own properties and we are constantly looking at the same things. I say it’s our own bubble, but if we can just make a call or even an easy text to stay connected, we will see that we are in the same community dealing with the same issues and all need a friendly voice or sympathetic ear to get us through it.

The season is tough enough on us all! Let’s try and get through it together.

Richard R. Catalogna

PTC President