April Meeting Recap

For those of you on vacation or otherwise unable to attend, here is a recap of our April club meeting.
 
We recited the four way test to remind us of our Rotary ethics of truth, fairness, goodwill, friendships and beneficial to all.
 
We are looking for members of Service committee, if you are interested, let anyone on the board know, or just show up.  Meetings are on the last Tuesday of the month at 5:00, and can be accessed from our website.  We are also always looking for service projects, if you have any ideas, come to the service committee meeting or contact a board member. 
 
We are looking for more club members, if you know of anyone who may be interested, please get in touch.
 

Tri-Con (our Multi-District Conference) - will be April 18-20, 2024 in Green Bay.  

Happy Hour is the third Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. 

Reminder - For a Rotary club to be eligible for district grants, there is a requirement of an average $100 per capita to be given to the Rotary Foundation.

Our new District Governor Elect  is Todd Restel from La Crosse.  He will be attending our October meeting.

There will be a Friendship Exchange with Rotarians from District 6250 going to the Philippines May 17 - 22.  They state that this is the Fun Zone!  Check your email or the district website.  Cathy is going, and there is still room.

A one-way Mini-Friendship Exchange with the Netherlands will take place the weekend of April 27.  This is a Tulip viewing opportunity.  See the district website for more details. 

Our speaker next month will be Srilekha Mundla - Power of Consciousness

Our 50/50 raffle winner was Peter Groth.

Sharon updated us on our current service project of supporting a Ukrainian-Hungarian Budapest school.  She will present to the Prairie du Chien club, and will be at TriCon with a friendship table spreading the word to other clubs.

Our speaker was Kim Groshek, who spoke about the Power of the Pause.

Kim is retired, but keeps very active.  She spoke to us about life shifts, having kids, they go to kindergarten, each grade, kids move out, retirement.  She detoxed from tech for a full year in 2015.  She started on computers at age 3.  Dad was computer programmer, on punchcards.  In college she didn’t have support system. It took several colleges and 7 or 8 years to finish college.  

 

Her first job was a computer system director.  When Facebook started, only universities could get in, she was an instructor, and encouraged her students to get on.

She was brought up to be quiet and respectful.  She realized in 2007 that electronics will take over our lives. About 10 years ago she paused social media accounts, it gave her more time to write and do other things.

Her methodology is concept > pilot > practice,  in a forward sprint.

She encourage us to each take a 15 minute pause every day.  Intention for pauses.  30 minutes talking about Abundance.  Every day take a minute to write what thankful for that day. Next month will be Intention.  She works with mastermind groups.  Intentional Integrity.  Consistency  >  Power.  The pause connects us with ourselves.

The shift happens when traumas come up.  Hiding emotions is bad.  We are savants.  Pausing helps our conscience ladder, it bridges a gap between what we know and what is new.  Her daughter is catalyst in her writings.  Facebook is also catalyst.  God guides her in her activities.  

Kim  has a podcast we were encouraged to listen to.