Statistics are issued every year about how people deal with New Year’s Resolutions. The three most popular resolutions are to exercise more, save money, and eat healthier. These seem irrelevant in 2021. Many fitness or dance facilities have closed or people are being discouraged from going to gyms without enough COVID safeguards. In order to save money, people must first get money. Eating healthier is irrelevant during a time when Americans are waiting hours in line for food. Since 25% of people do not even make it to the end of the first week after making these resolutions anyway, let’s focus on some variations of them.
- Americans should call out, recall or not vote for any local political leaders who do not “exercise” more restraint and use more common sense. Getting incensed over people being asked to wear masks, while eight million people have been thrust into poverty since June is irresponsible.
- “Saving” money is not an option for most employees in 2021. All business leaders must realize that there is no “getting back to normal.” To start making money again, they should plan, on January 4, to meet virtually with all employees and describe how management will work with them to create new ways of identifying new customers, recruiting new, diverse employees, establishing new ways of communicating and satisfying clients, and sharing new profits as incentives for them.
- It is up to voters to hold national political leaders, who seem more concerned about feeding lobbyists (the pending bill reinstates tax deductions for business meals) than immediately and directly assisting the millions of restaurant workers displaced by the pandemic, accountable.
