Few Port Townsend residents are able to connect the past to the future with as much authority as Heather Dudley-Nolette. A fifth-generation member of the town's founding Hastings family, she spoke …
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Few Port Townsend residents are able to connect the past to the future with as much authority as Heather Dudley-Nolette. A fifth-generation member of the town's founding Hastings family, she spoke about that connection on Sunday, Jan. 25 as she accepted an award as Business Leader of the Year from the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.
"Go back and remember," she said to the room full of business owners, "why you started your business in the first place. Remember the passion that drove you, why you thought it was a really good idea." She called upon them to reconnect with that passion in 2015, to share it with friends, and – when necessary – "to ask them for help."
Gee Heckscher, the ex-Marine and retired architect devoted to historic preservation, was named the 2014 Port Townsend Citizen of the Year at the annual Chamber awards event.
Chauncey Tudhope-Locklear was named the Young Professional of the year.
Connecting to the passion that you started in the first place -- now that is a great theme for anybody who has been engaged in a business or enterprise for a long time. Most of us get into something because we believe in it and, after a while, are good at it. When we take that interest to the level of running an enterprise devoted to that interest, we may get diverted into managing things, including budgets, rather than doing the work we love. The key is to do both, and Dudley-Nolette reminds us to never get too distant from the original passion. Because the need is still there.
Few Port Townsend residents are able to connect the past to the future with as much authority as Heather Dudley-Nolette. A fifth-generation member of the town's founding Hastings family, she spoke about that connection on Sunday, Jan. 25 as she accepted an award as Business Leader of the Year from the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.
"Go back and remember," she said to the room full of business owners, "why you started your business in the first place. Remember the passion that drove you, why you thought it was a really good idea." She called upon them to reconnect with that passion in 2015, to share it with friends, and – when necessary – "to ask them for help."
Gee Heckscher, the ex-Marine and retired architect devoted to historic preservation, was named the 2014 Port Townsend Citizen of the Year at the annual Chamber awards event.
Chauncey Tudhope-Locklear was named the Young Professional of the year.
Connecting to the passion that you started in the first place -- now that is a great theme for anybody who has been engaged in a business or enterprise for a long time. Most of us get into something because we believe in it and, after a while, are good at it. When we take that interest to the level of running an enterprise devoted to that interest, we may get diverted into managing things, including budgets, rather than doing the work we love. The key is to do both, and Dudley-Nolette reminds us to never get too distant from the original passion. Because the need is still there.
