Find below the special
comments delivered by Fred Tibbitts at FTA's Hong Kong 2006 Dinner Event:
Why We Come Together
I would like to share with you my thoughts on “Why We
Come Together” for these FTA business dinners. We hold these
business dinners to celebrate our hospitality industry in New York City and
across Asia for our common good and of course to celebrate and recognize
excellence in hospitality.
But the deeper purpose of why we come together is
really at the very heart of why the hospitality industry is so special to so
many of us who have come to consider it our calling.
Hospitality is all about service and in particular
SERVICE EXCELLENCE: Service to others. For service is truly the highest
calling. It is not what we do for ourselves, but what we do for others that is
the measure of our worth to humanity and ourselves.
So I would ask you to reflect on just these five
thoughts as we are together this evening as ONE:
Everything and everyone is connected: We are ONE: We are
not separate from one another; so live your lives with an open heart without
qualification and treat everyone as though they were your closest family at all
times. Honor and respect all others.
Service is the highest calling: Serve the least of
humanity with compassion and reverence as though you were in the presence of
royalty: For in fact the least of us are the closest to the energy of the
universe.
Act based on what is the right thing to do: Not what
appears to be most to your immediate advantage.
Practice relieving the suffering of all others by
wishing that you can suffer for them.
And finally, try not to fill your day chasing after all
that you can take: Instead, receive what is given.
Namaste. |