Welcome to February and our monthly newsletter. To be perfectly honest, I was writing this greeting and all I can hear in my mind is our Director of Social Media, Daniel Nuccio, reminding me that he can tell when I am really “feeling it” when I write something and when I am trying to meet a deadline. Not exactly the feeling you want to have when you actually are trying me meet a deadline!

The more I thought about it, the harder it got to think of a way to tie in something that goes on in sales to either valentines or groundhogs, so I did the next best thing…I asked someone smarter than me.

For those of you who follow me on Facebook, then you may know my friend from back in my high school days, Stacie Hartmann Bohr. Stacie became a big fan of or December Trivia contest—won this year by Shawn Kenney—and encouraged us to continue throughout the year. She supplies some of the questions and many entertaining answers.

I asked Stacie for some inspiration and what she wrote back was so on target for what I wanted to express. Enjoy!

As Groundhog Day is approaching on February 2nd, we wonder whether winter will be six weeks longer or more hopefully to see if the sun and warmth will be coming a bit sooner. That concept tends to be much more inspiring.

What we can control is how we push forward; how we think ahead and what each of us can do to better ourselves with our personal and professional goals rather than sit back and allow them to be determined for us.

What are you doing to push forward and continue to reach for the goals you set last month when you made your New Year’s Resolutions?

Let us all hope that the Groundhog finds the cloudy day so that we will most certainly see the sunny future ahead for all of us this year.