09/21/2026
🔴 Monday Motivation #
This week, try something a little more manageable:
🎯 Set a small focus. Choose one clear goal that would genuinely move your research forward. Momentum beats an impossible to-do list.
💡 Be curious… again. Revisit something you thought you understood. A new perspective, stakeholder, context, or question might completely change how you see it.
🤝 Reach out. Send that message you’ve been meaning to send. One conversation can become a research idea, collaboration, mentorship, or friendship.
🌱 Find inspiration in the real world. Hospitality and tourism happen all around us. Observe the people, places, technologies, experiences, and problems that make our field worth studying.
🚩 Celebrate progress. Finished one section? Found the scale you’ve been searching for? Finally figured out why PROCESS keeps yelling at you? 😂 Take the win.
❤️ Be kind to yourself. Research takes time. Some weeks produce publications. Others produce one decent paragraph and a lot of coffee. Both count.
Research has no borders, and neither does curiosity.
Have a wonderful week!