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You Made the Move, Now Make a Change

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There can be something transformational about moving into a new space. First you get the chance to say hello to the historical parade of things you have valued enough to keep and keep again as you pack and unpack each individual item. Then there are the things you now have the opportunity to say goodbye to. Change can freshen your perspective as you make a new start living in new space.

So why stop with just the changes to your space and the things you put in it? Your move is also an opportunity to make other changes you may have been meaning to make in your life for a while.

Rainbow Movers is a company that aims to make the process of moving into your new home, office or venue as stress-free as possible. We also like it if we get the chance to help our clients take the adventure of their move even further by introducing them to some great people we know and trust, who provide extremely useful and forward-looking services.

Olympic athletes never make a move without consulting with their coaches, who become accountability partners in crystallizing and achieving goals. We could all benefit from this kind of coaching partnership in our business and personal lives. Coaches offer invaluable and personally applied expertise. I’d like to speak up for two coaches I know well, whose work has affected m in business and in my everyday life.

Jeri Quinn of Driving Improved Results is a business coach who can help you motivate your employees, grow your business, improve your results, or any other business related challenges you may be facing.  Whether you own your own business or lead a team in a company, Jeri can help you set goals effectively and develop the best strategy to reach them. She has helped Rainbow Movers immensely (watch the video above), and we can’t recommend her services highly enough.

Christy Goldfeder Delicious Life Health Coaching will help YOU take control of your diet!  Taking care of yourself means eating right, exercising, and getting the rest you need.  Simple, right? Well, we know it’s not always simple at all. That’s when an expert in nutrition and wellness like Christy can bring her experience to your individual needs. Christy’s down to earth style makes these concepts easy to understand as she coaches you. Her technique does not involve starving, but rather a diet change, timed to the seasonal availability of fresh food, and our individual seasonal body needs. One size does not fit all, but many of us can end up a size or two smaller by eating better.

Whether you focus on your business or your personal life, or both, these two outstanding professionals are dedicated to helping people just like us. The trick is that you have to be ready to work with them, ready to make the changes, and ready to enjoy all the benefits. If that works for you, then we encourage you to call Jeri and/or Christy to learn more about their services and find out how they can work with you.

~Lenny

 

How Has Moving in New York Changed Since 1978?

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Lenny Sass is the owner and co-founder of Rainbow Movers.  We thought it would be interesting to ask him how moving has changed in the city since he first started the business in 1978.

When my wife and I started Rainbow Movers in 1978, we were charging $12 an hour for myself and our truck, and she ran the office while taking care of two, then three kids.  You could rent an apartment on 2nd Avenue and 10th Street in an elevator/doorman building for $300 a month.   Since then, the company has grown, added services and staff, and moved thousands of people and their possessions into new homes.  And that same East Village apartment is now going for $3,000 a month.  Some things have changed dramatically, and some haven’t really changed at all.

For one thing, dealing with our trucks is a lot different today.  The bike and bus lanes limit the places we can park, so we are much more exposed to parking tickets.  There are a lot more taxis and limos these days.  It’s great for people who want to find a cab, but look down any avenue and imagine the space if the yellow vehicles were not there.  We need them, but we’ve had to crowd ourselves for the convenience.

People were moving into some pretty gritty spaces thirty years ago, huge old loft buildings where we had to pull on a cable to move the elevators up and down.  There were more walk-up buildings then too.  Many of them have now been replaced with skyscrapers, and we live in their shadows:  less sunblock required, but less natural vitamin D as well.  Another trade off.

One definite improvement is there is less pollution in the city today.  The environmental regulations and improvements to furnaces are working.  The soot on windowsills (and windshields) takes longer to accumulate.  And less people are smoking, so our lungs are cleaner.  The city is safer too.  We still see front doors with three or more locks on them, but they are usually a throw back to when they were really necessary.

Even though Americans are larger than ever today, furniture is still furniture.  In the 1970’s, we would still see the occasional large parlor piece from the 1940’s and ‘50’s, inherited from parents and grandparents.  Things have certainly changed with the designs of the day.  TV’s today are flatter and bigger, and furniture to hold them has changed as well.  We also see more IKEA type furniture that people assemble out of the box, but those are not usually passed on from generation to generation.  Audio systems now fit in your pocket.  But until everything else is digitized, we will be helping people move it.

Things will always be changing, people will continue to want new spaces for themselves, and we will continue to help move their belongings.  The one thing that hasn’t changed is that we still do our best to eliminate the stresses that can be part of the process.

Every day might as well be the sweet spot between yesterday and tomorrow.

~Lenny Sass