The New Year is coming and with that a new chance to change ourselves

Change is sometimes good and sometimes can be not so good. The question is what we hope to accomplish. Whether we want people around us to their lives to be improved or as we are looking out for just ourselves. On our San Francisco Food Tours, we always ask ourselves about whether we are improving the neighborhoods that we live in. Sometimes we look at something that happens and we think that something happens where we personally benefit is a good thing. The challenge for the rest of us is whether everyone around us benefits. In the short term, when one groups will benefit at the expense of everyone else. Long term, eventually, unless everyone benefits, it will eventually hurt all of us. Either the people who we need to purchase goods and services will not be able to afford to anything. Or, the neighborhoods that we all live starts to get worse. Maybe streets, business, and homes start to crumble. Maybe the parks that we all enjoy start to fall apart. Maybe the crime in our community goes up. Or maybe the schools have to close or the class sizes go way up. On each San Francisco Food Tour, we are always asking ourselves about this. The challenge for the rest to continually asking ourselves about the same thing, whether something benefits all of us or just some of us. And then to demand that that our elected representatives do the same. Unless we do that all of our lives will get worse, not better.