The experiences of life, reasonably than what we personal, make for a fulfilled human expertise. The Cold Stone Creamery was a fixture in Ft. Myers Beach for over 30 years. The above {photograph} was me goofing round at Cold Stone Creamery subsequent to the Ft Myers pier.
There is a yearly Memorial Day weekend sailboat race from Tampa Bay to Ft. Myers. One of my greatest surprises was having three younger Merlin Yacht Racing followers present up with wizard hats as we pulled our B-32 sailboat right into a slip at Bonita Bill’s Café following the end.
The Ft. Myers pier was such an iconic fixture. At the tip of the pier, one may view the whole lot of the seashore and other people having fun with themselves. The photograph under is on the finish of the pier, with one other sailboat making its strategy to the end of the sailboat race.
Bonita Bill’s Café was an oasis after racing all evening. Shrimp, grits, and a chilly beer with the crew, rivals, associates, and household is a bizarre mixture at 9 am within the morning. But God is aware of how a lot I loved the camaraderie, telling tales about navigating the precise or fallacious approach throughout the race, and the loopy adventures alongside the best way. Then, my good lawyer buddy, Jamie Myers, would run the awards banquet later at evening with extra tales and nice enjoyable. People generally ask me how a lot cash I win when racing sailboats. How a couple of bottle of Mount Gay darkish rum to be shared with my crew?
Insurance performs a job in all these experiences with out occupied with it. We insure our sailboats to guard our funding. Business homeowners insure their properties and invite lenders to mortgage capital. Those companies present a spot for us to take pleasure in ourselves and staff to make a residing whereas these entrepreneurs revenue from their investments whereas offering us nice enjoyable. Insurance is a particularly vital social product. It permits for a lot deeper life experiences, personally and in enterprise.
Insurance softens the monetary and emotional hurt when communities resembling Ft. Myers are devasted. Everybody concerned within the insurance coverage business must be proud that they offered a product to individuals and companies that’s so important to a neighborhood. In When Words Collide: The Golden Rule – The Purpose of Insurance is to… Insure, we quoted insurance coverage business educator Bill Wilson:
Never, ever neglect in every little thing that you just do professionally that the aim of insurance coverage is to insure and that the mission of this business and each skilled in it’s to help people, households and organizations in minimizing their publicity to critical or catastrophic monetary loss. This begins with the insurance coverage contract and ends with YOU.
Now, it’s the claims business’s flip to melt Hurricane Ian’s blow and make the insurance coverage product work.
Thought For The Day
The most stunning issues should not related to cash; they’re reminiscences and moments. If you don’t have fun these, they will go you by.
—Alek Wek
