Dear Travel Agents and Friends,

No matter how old you are, how successful or important, you can always improve yourself.

Those who know me and/or follow my blogs, know I like to promote peace and to help people help each other. There is no growth in this world for those who live a self-absorbed life. People need each other to feel loved, and helping others is the best way to help oneself.

Believe me when I tell you, I didn’t create the world, nor have I discovered the secret to happiness. I am trying to live in my world and build my own happiness by giving and sharing knowledge, by loving people despite disagreeing with some of their personal opinions, and by being a friend to those who need a shoulder.

One thing that has been crucial in my quest is to be ME. What I’ve discovered (with some bumps in the road and some tears) was that I didn’t speak up when I needed to. When I felt hurt I pretended that there was no pain, just to keep the peace. I discovered that to help others, to love and respect them, I needed to help and love myself too.

As they say (I’ve mentioned this before in another blog as well) in an airplane, when the cabin loses pressurization, you have to place the oxygen mask on yourself first in order to be able to help others.

This is now the improved Rosana, continuing to believe in the same principles, but learning to Speak Up.

How about you? What do you need to improve?

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Dear Travel Agents,

I want to share something funny that happens to me. When I meet or speak to people I know, instead of asking, “How have you been?” they ask me, “Where have you been lately?”

They say they love to follow my trips on my social media accounts, they travel the world through my travel, and they often want to share a place they are going, or ask me about a destination, and the best ones ask me for my recommendation of a travel agent. They know I used to work with travel agents, and now I guide them as they build their businesses.

Many of you who are reading my blog know that I have recommended you to my personal friends and family. I feel comfortable in doing so, and am glad to do it.

I love how my friends approach me by asking where I have been, or how long I will be staying in town, or where I am going next. Such pleasant conversations to have.

I hope I can use your name in my next conversation, and hope you also have your friends asking you the same questions.

Cheers!

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Dear Travel Agent,

Today is 09/11 and I wanted to talk about my favorite thing in this entire world. The thing that heals people, makes people richer, and more united: TRAVEL.

When the country feels so divided, and people spend so much time posting about differences, about HATE, putting others down for their beliefs and opinions, I still want to believe that we can heal each other with positive thoughts, good energy and love each other. After all, we are in this world for a short time. Time is the very essence of healing and doing good, and then when we least expect it, poof, we are gone.

Hate is a horrible disease. It’s like taking poison and expecting the other person to die, but we all know what happens to the one who takes the poison.

Let’s convert negative thoughts and postings into positive ones. Let’s use our energy to learn more, travel, gain experience from different cultures, embrace and celebrate our differences.

Look again at the subject of this blog: Have A Travel Experience (H A T E): What if instead of bad thoughts and bad words we converted them all into positive actions?

Let’s teach our kids and the next generations to agree to disagree, to respect differences and to learn from within. And more importantly, to use our time wisely and selflessly, because life is beautiful and our time is short.

Travel the world, make friends everywhere, and love yourself first.

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Dear Travel Advisor,

With over 25 years in the travel business, I have watched plenty of people make the same mistakes I made in the beginning of my career: assuming that clients would not be able to afford “expensive” trips based on what I thought of and understood as “expensive”!

Certainly, “expensive” is in the eyes of the beholder. Putting a value on anything is based on personal experience, and for that, you have to ASSUME that your personal experience is the same as everyone else’s!

When we ASSUME that others have the same values, opinions and experiences as us, we also risk judging others, and in doing that, we risk losing business and even friends.

In the controversial and divided country we are living in, my words of advice to succeed in business is to put differences aside and focus on the positives we share. Let’s share love, and motivation to grow, and be happy. Now, more than ever, let’s share love quotes, travel quotes and motivational quotes.

Going back to what we consider “expensive,” don’t be afraid to send quotes to clients. Most times, their reality is different than what we PRESUME or ASSUME, and they will love us just because we took the time to work hard to make their dreams come true!

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