What's Your New Year's Resolution?

After the confetti clears and the champagne glasses are put away, there’s nothing like a new year to inspire a fresh start.

Maybe it’s the clean slate and forward-thinking vision of 365 new days, filled with possibility.

We’re inspired by New Year’s Resolutions - both big and small.

From losing weight - that’s one of Hotter Painting Owner Chuck Hotter’s - to growing or expanding your business, we caught up with some UBCC members and staff for a peek at what made the list for 2019.

“I’m excited about working with the executive committee on future events and programs,” Hotter said. He’s also looking forward to recruiting new members to UBCC and helping retain existing ones through fresh education and ways to connect.

For Nancy Strauss helping her clients achieve success is her top priority for 2019.
 
Strauss is a certified lifestyle coach with Optavia, a product lifestyle/life cycle company based in Baltimore Maryland.

“My goal is to be laser focused and intentional about helping my clients and health coaches get what they want...which will ultimately help me get what I want,” Strauss said.
 
For Teresa Senatore, UBCC administrative assistant, it’s consistently honoring healthy eating habits.
 
Growing his business is what Shane Peeve of Sunset Pest Solutions, Inc. listed as a top 2019 resolution.

And expanding his business is one of Joe Wingert’s New Year’s resolutions. “Transforming” his family’s weekly Lahaska –based newspaper into a regional media outlet is Wingert’s professional resolution.
Wingert is the incoming UBCC Board of Directors president and publisher of Bucks County Herald. He also wants to travel to England this year.

Outgoing UBCC board President Jason Wehrung wants to “slow down and appreciate life as much as possible,” and Tracy Kline, UBCC operations director, wants to make more time at least weekly “to do something I enjoy.”

Brett Fischer, owner of Fischer’s Tuxedo in Quakertown, wants to quit smoking.

And UBCC Executive Director Danielle Bodnar said she realizes how single intentional small choices create big ripples of change.
With this mindset of small changes moving Bodnar said better personal organization was at the top of her to-do list.
“I want to work on being the strategic organizer I know that I can be when it comes to my desk, my ‘to-do list’, [my] inbox etc.,” Bodnar said. That “found” time can go toward pursuing interests she’s intrigued by, or those that get lost in the shuffle of everyday work and living. Cultivating both internal and external self-awareness is another of Bodnar’s resolutions.

What’s my New Year’s resolution? I’m Melinda Rizzo and as a UBCC member, freelance writer and the chamber’s blog, content and annual directory writer, I want to use technology more effectively to streamline my writing processes.
What’s your New Year’s resolution?

Let us know- email mrizzo@ubcc.org and if we have enough responses, we’ll share another post!!