WELCOME TO HOSPITALITY AND MILA VOCATION and AVOCATION

I’ve been in the hospitality business as long as I can remember. Upon graduation from college, I plunged into the hospitality industry wholeheartedly. Embracing the world of big city hotels, and major chains, I began a peripatetic adventure in relocation when advancements to ever larger properties, and/or hospitality management positions, presented themselves.

While the business was exciting and extremely rewarding in many ways, it became apparent early on, that the swiftest to succeed and to continue to endure, were those managers that were able to keep up with the rigorous demands placed on an executive in an industry that was the true embodiment of “twenty-four seven” before that phrase became part of the language. From the moment a hotel is built until it is either closed, demolished, or rebuilt for another use, it is OPEN, always, and never, ever, stops operating.

Thus, to keep pace; health, wellness and fitness became an obvious requirement to succeed in this all-hours business. Well past the conventions, meetings, weddings and guest relations demands on the local manager, later corporate responsibilities and travel made similar claims. An early recognition of a workout regimen, along with diet, and anything else that contributed to a healthy lifestyle became an avocation, both to enable me to perform my present job in the most satisfactory way, and to protect productivity in later years as well as to enjoy those retirement years as an active, healthy individual.

In researching supplements to bolster health, my wife, Kathleen, and I decided early on that large doses of vitamins were not for us, since there seemed sufficient doubt about efficacy, and in fact some concern about harm in overdose. Herbal supplements were tried, but a low-fat diet, with enough protein, vegetables and fruits together with regular exercise seemed the best for us. That is, until we recently discovered Mila, the miracle seed

An ancient plant nourished and harvested by the long extinct Aztec civilization, who inhabited the American Southwest and Mexico, known as Chia,( yes the same name used in the ubiquitous Chia Pet), is the seed we speak of. This whole raw food was recently introduced to the nutrition market just in the last few months. Learn how this ancient food, rediscovered, and reformulated into a proprietary mix after more than 500 years of relative obscurity, provides an overwhelming abundance of nutrients that the Aztecs called the “food of the gods”, and is now known as Mila, the miracle seed. Click on the following link http://kathleen.lifemax.net/ to learn how easily you can discover, enjoy, and perhaps, join us in your own journey to health, wellness and fitness for life.

As for the hotel industry, it has provided me and my fellow hoteliers with many benefits, both in monetary results and life-fulfilling experiences. I would recommend to both young men and women seeking a rewarding career, to look into the various universities that offer a B.S. in Hotel Administration, beginning with Cornell, University of New Hampshire, and Penn State, to name a few on the East Coast. In the West, UNLV in Las Vegas also offers an excellent bachelor’s degree course. For more info, read some of the archived hotel comments on this blog and then go to: http://www.him-llc.com/