February 2017 |Business View Caribbean

20 21 WEIGH IN “Fromyour current vantage point in your professional life, if you could, what advice would you give to your 20-year-old self?” Top executives weigh in: gaetan babin director of wyndham reef resort dr. mcgee Owner of the Mount Nevis Hotel Love what you’re doing, because if you don’t, you won’t go far. If you love what you’re doing and put your heart in it 100 percent, you will excel. And have perseverance, because nothing comes easy. You have to persevere and you have to be patient. cheryl bastain owner and operator of Swains Cay Lodge Go after your dream, early; as early as you can. Strive and push away the obstacles and get it done. david southworth Owner of the Abaco Club in the Bahamas craig keller managing director Isla Construction, Consulting, and Advisory Inc. - Grenada Be disruptive. Look past where things are at. There’s very little success to be had in simply doing what everybody else is doing. The only way to suc- ceed is through disruptive approaches. You have to be looking at how am I going to do this – not a little differently, but completely differently. These communities don’t work unless there’s a heart and a soul. The other thing is not to start these projects until you’re funded for every contingency under the moon. That type of stability is needed so that you can make the right decisions on a day-to-day basis. You have to have a vision and a dream that’s real. You stick to it as long as it’s feasible and makes sense. And it has to be a product or service that makes the world a better place in some way. The main motivator cannot be money. The money comes to the people that don’t do it for the money.