An 80-year rock collection

Pic­ture a glass jar, a bag of stones and a bag of small peb­bles. If I told you that all the rocks would fit in the jar, how would you start to fill it? I’ll save you some time. The rocks won’t fit if you start with the small peb­bles. The stones take up the most room and should be placed in the jar first. The small peb­bles can be poured in, moved around and shift­ed to fill in the cracks to make your jar full.

Take one more imag­i­nary step with me. Sup­pose that jar is your life, and those stones and peb­bles are the val­ues you hold in high esteem. If you start with the small things, you won’t have enough space in your life for the big-tick­et items. My pri­or­i­ties are the Lord, my fam­i­ly and our com­mu­ni­ty. What are your rocks? Would you want to give up one of your large stones to make time for the small things? Just like the anal­o­gy, the small peb­bles will fit too. It just takes some fore­thought to pri­or­i­tize what real­ly mat­ters and fill your cup in the right order.

For the past 80 years, your co-op has iden­ti­fied our biggest rock as our mem­bers. You have always been and always will be the pri­or­i­ty at YEC. From find­ing a way to bring elec­tric­i­ty to your homes in 1941 to research­ing a way to pro­vide high-speed inter­net to the unserved and under­served in our ter­ri­to­ry, we are always look­ing out for you. Some of our oth­er large stones are ser­vice, safe­ty, reli­a­bil­i­ty, integri­ty and trust. We focus our ener­gy on pri­or­i­tiz­ing these busi­ness prac­tices so that your ener­gy ser­vice exceeds your expec­ta­tions. As we press pause to eval­u­ate our own lives, we encour­age you to help YEC do the same. Help us make sure we’re still on the right track by par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Amer­i­can Cus­tomer Sat­is­fac­tion Index sur­vey. We want to hear from you, our top pri­or­i­ty, and the biggest stone in our jar.

Speak­ing of fill­ing ves­sels, you can learn about one of our old­est mem­bers and the pot­tery she and her fam­i­ly have been mak­ing for years. She also shares with us her mem­o­ry of when the lights came on near­ly 80 years ago. As we enter the new year, I encour­age you to eval­u­ate your rock col­lec­tion and take away the impor­tance of love from Mrs. Plyler. I wish you and your fam­i­ly well this hol­i­day sea­son. Mer­ry Christ­mas!

Sin­cere­ly,

 

 

Paul Basha
Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer

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Holiday closings

YEC offices will close to cel­e­brate Thanks­giv­ing on Nov. 26 and 27 and Christ­mas on Dec. 23 (clos­ing at noon), 24 and 25. Crews will be on stand­by in the event of an out­age. YEC wish­es you and your fam­i­ly a healthy, safe and hap­py hol­i­day sea­son. Mer­ry Christ­mas from your co-op!