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If You Own a Historic Bed and Breakfast

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Many Bed and Breakfasts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Up to 90% of Bed and Breakfasts occupy historic buildings that have been lovingly restored.  Some of them have received rewards from a Preservation Society.  If you own a historic bed and breakfast, do you emphasize its history to your guests?

You can give tours of your historic home and talk about the people who formerly lived there.  If you know their names, talk about them.  Feel free to share any stories you know to be true. If they are rumors, then let your guests know that the information can not be confirmed.  Your guests will feel as though you are giving them a window into the life of those who once lived in your home.

If you have antique pictures of family members, hang them on your walls. Bed and breakfast owners, you can display precious momentos from your historic home.  If they are valuable and/or fragile, consider putting them in a locked glass display case for your guests to view.

You could even put together a scrapbook of old photos of your bed and breakfast and the people who formerly lived in your home.  If you put that scrapbook in a common area of the house, guests will be able to enjoy looking at the pages to get a sense of the history of the place they are staying in.

Guests love staying in places that have a fascinating history. Perhaps someone famous owned (or stayed at) your bed and breakfast.  You can mention that on your website and you can refer to that in a blog post.  Highlight the things that make your bed and breakfast unique and you will attract more visitors!

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The Power of Visualization

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Did you know that the brain’s quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images? Having a mental picture of something in your brain can be very motivating as well as relaxing.

If you come to my house, you will see that I have a visualization dream board using different colored pieces of scrapbook paper that I have pinned to a bulletin board.  I cut out meaningful words and inspiring pictures from magazines to motivate me to achieve, relax, and be the best me I can be!

In addition to my dream board, I actively use Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/kristinedement/).  It is so cool to be able to collect tips and get ideas from looking at what other people put on their Pinterest boards.  You can even take your own images and share them with others on Pinterest.

So what means a lot to you?  Spend some time thinking about what kind of categories of pins you would like to set up.  For example, my categories include: social media success, inspiring art, libraries around the world, castles around the world, vacation destinations, etc.  The picture below is of America’s largest home–the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC.

If you are an artist, you could paint an inspiring mural on a wall in your home or office or classroom as a way to powerfully visualize your dreams.  No matter how you visualize, it is important that you do!  Then you are one step closer to achieving another dream!

 

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