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Tuesday Talking – Being One Of The Forgotten

May 26, 2015 by dadofdivas 29 Comments

TuesdayTalkingIn a past article that I wrote about the song “Remember Me” by Mark Shultz, I talked about my struggle with knowing what I should do to make a difference and to not be forgotten and be remembered. Since I wrote that article I started thinking more about those individuals who are forgotten or as what I would say have been forgotten.

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Who am I talking about? I see these people every Tuesday at my weekly Rotary meeting. You see we meet at a senior living facility, and unfortunately I see in the eyes of many of the residents a loss, or a sadness that has set in. Though I am making some assumptions in this case, I would say that many of them do not see their families much. I can say this from experience in some of the people that lived in other facilities that I had frequented in my past. Many of these aging people did have friendships, but in my conversations with them, they yearned for more contact and conversation. They had family, but their family was not there often, leaving them alone to their memories.

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The more conversations that I seem to have with these people the more I think that though I know I will get older, I dread the idea of becoming one of the forgotten. I hope that I am able to instill in my own children the responsibility to stay connected with their parents.

My Question for the Day?

  1. What about you? What experiences have you had with “the forgotten”? How will you instill in others the importance of not forgetting those around you?


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Education of a WASP @Rotary #Literacy #Giveaway #RotaryReads

September 12, 2012 by dadofdivas 5 Comments

With summer winding down and many youngsters heading back to school, Rotary International is ramping up its commitment to improve literacy and basic education for children and adults.

 

Why Literacy & Rotary are Important

This may seem like a no-brainer, but literacy is what makes the world go around and the more people that are able to read and to share that gift with others, the more that we all can accomplish as a society. As a parent, and a past Rotary member, I have seen first-hand how much the gift of literacy can open up the world to a child. I have continuously been amazed at how picking up a book can transport a person to another land, or open their minds to a new idea or perspective which is definitely something that we all need to do now and again. Rotary has made it one if it’s guiding principles to work with all to promote literacy as they have seen how this goes hand-in-hand with economic prosperity for a person and for a country.

Check out some great examples of local Rotary Clubs’ work for this cause in Washington, Minnesota & Maine

  • Fife-Milton Rotary (Club # 64) is entering its 4th year of sponsoring Catherine Nankunda’s education in Mbarara, Uganda.  She is a 9 year old Uganda girl attending St Aloysius Primary school there.  Fife-Milton Rotary’s donation covers her tuition, books, room, board, uniform, bedding, stationary, etc.  She is in the 5th grade & the club receives progress reports each quarter.  Here’s the link to the club’s website with photos of her & the school’s Head Mistress. https://sites.google.com/site/fifemiltonrotary/home

 

Tweet-Chat with Rotary: Rotary International will be hosting a Twitter Chat on 9/13 from 8pm-9pm EST with blogger, No Time for Flash Cards (@NoFlashCards), to continue the conversation about improving literacy and promoting basic education worldwide. We would love for you and your readers to join us and tweet your favorite quote from your favorite book using #RotaryReads

 

Rotary has been great and is allowing me to offer the one book that most impacted my life to one of you, my readers. The below book was one that I was introduced to back when I was studying my Masters Degree. This book blew the lid off my own perspective on White Privilege in society and the fact that so many white individuals live with a sense of inert racism that they are not aware of. This book was one of the best ethnographies that I had at the time ever read and this is a book that I continually share with others as one that will open their eyes no matter what their race and it will for you as well!

 

About the Book

Brimming with honestly and passion, The Education of a WASP chronicles one white woman’s discovery of racism in 1960s America. First published in 1970 and highly acclaimed by reviewers, Lois Stalvey’s account is as timely now as it was then. Nearly twenty years later, with ugly racial incidents occurring on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in workplaces everywhere, her account of personal encounters with racism remains deeply disturbing. Educators and general readers interested in the subtleties of racism will find the story poignant, revealing, and profoundly moving.

 

Giveaway

How would you like to win this amazing book for yourself? All you need to do is fill out the below form.  The contest will run for one week and will end on September 19, 2012.

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This contest will run until September 19, 2012 at approximately 11:59 pm Eastern.

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Winner has 48 hours to contact me or another name will be chosen.

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The 4 Way Test – Will It Bring Goodwill and Better Friendships?

October 15, 2008 by dadofdivas 2 Comments


There are so many times where I have questioned the intentions of others, where I felt that they were more interested in doing things for themselves than thinking of others around them.

It is sad that our society has at times the “me” attitude. In businesss and in life we have to work hard to have the strong relationships that we all strive for. One way that will assist everyone wih accomplishing this goal is if we are consistently building goodwill and better friendships by doing things for people that advance these values.

So what does this mean? What does builging goodwill mean to you?

In researching this myself I came to find a few great resources that I thought all of my readers would benefit from. These resources do a wonderful job at both defining and providing valuable inight into building goodwill in and outside of business and also provide parents with some ideas into what they should be trying to incorporate into their repoitoire.

  • Build Goodwill to Build Your Future
  • Building Goodwill – 1
  • Building Goodwill – 2

    So find ways to incorporate and teach goodwill to your children and emulate this to your colleagues and practice it wil your clients…you will not regret it!

    Did you miss any of my past analysis of the 4 Way Test? If so, visit the below links:

  • Is It The Truth?
  • Is It Fair To All Concerned?

So My Question For The Day?
How can you live this tenet of the 4 Way Test on a Daily Basis?

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The 4 Way Test – Is It Fair To All Concerned?

October 4, 2008 by dadofdivas 1 Comment


“That’s not fair!” How many of us have heard this in our own lives let alone through the mouths of our children. Tenet #2 talks specifically about fairness and how the things we do and the decisions we make should be set based on fairness, not on the gain of one.

We try and teach fairness at an early age specifically through teaching our children to share and take turns. Now as we all know this is not always an easy thing to teach a young child, but as parents we persist and convince our child of the importance of this.

Unfortunately as some of us get older the teachings of our youth get lost in the shuffle of life and as we enter our professional life, we tend to find that we sometimes can become a bit self centered, thinking about “me” instead of “we”. What happens from this is that many people think about what is fair for “me” instead of what is fair for “us”.

What this tenet espouses is that in thinking about decisions, if a decision is fair, the decision being made will not offend anyone and is likely to advance respect and have sustainability.

Can you imagine what a world would be like if we all were able to live and promote fairness daily. Try it for a day, be fair in all your decisions and see what it is like to live in a different way – you may just want to change for good!

Did you miss any of my past analysis of the 4 Way Test? If so, visit the below links:

  • Is It The Truth?
  • So My Question For The Day?
    How can you live this tenet of the 4 Way Test on a Daily Basis?

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Filed Under: parenting Tagged With: parenthood, rotary

The 4 Way Test – Is It The Truth?

October 3, 2008 by dadofdivas Leave a Comment


The first tenet of the 4 Way Test is one that I think we all grapple with daily. Is it the truth? Is what we are saying to others true or do we live under the constraints o a PC world that promotes half-truths and sometimes lies?

Daily I run into people that say what they think you want to hear instead of what is true. Is this wrong?Has our society today become so worried about hurting others’ feelings that telling the truth has become taboo? I hope not!

This rule of the 4 Way Test is an important one in business relationships and practices, but also in all of our everyday lives and in what we teach our children.

I feel strongly that it is important to have your children grow up knowing that telling the truth is expected, no matter what the outcome. As I tell my eldest daughter Diva-J, “I would much rather hear it from you then from someone else.”

These lessons will transcend and will allow our children the potential of breaking free of the chains of being PC all the time. Now I am not saying that all truths should be made clear as some truths will hurt others so there is a fine line between promoting whole truths and half truths. For example, if someone says, “do I look fat in this?” If the person does, do you still tell the truth, or not? This is a moral dilemma for all of us to grapple with.

What this part of the 4 Way Test was getting at originally was that in business practices we should always tell the truth and make ourselves transparent allowing ourselves and our companies to share and be clear in all aspects.

Does this also not make sense in our personal lives? Would it not be wonderful if everday you could live your life this way with your family, friends and other loved ones? I know this may seem a bit Pollyannaish, but the 4Way Test has definitely been working for the past 60+ years, so now, why not move it to the next level in your own personal lives?

So let us all work to go back to our childhood days where telling the truth was celebrated and bring back n ethos of truth in our business and personal lives as well as sharing this with our children which will gain so much from this discussion. As someone once said to me “You tell on the lie or it will tell on you!” This is so true, and I have had it happen in my life where the lie does come out in the end…so why even lie in the first place!

So My Question For The Day?

  • How can you live this tenet of the 4 Way Test on a Daily Basis?


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The 4 Way Test

October 1, 2008 by dadofdivas 1 Comment

I am a Rotarian!

The 4 Way test was developed in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor and adopted by Rotary 11 years later. The principles surrounding the 4 way test relate to the principles that all Rotarians subscribe to in relation to how we believe relationships should move forward especially in business situations. The principles in regards to the 4 Way Test includes:

  1. Is it the Truth
  2. Is it fair to all concerned?
  3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
  4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

As a Rotarian, I have also noticed that these principles transcend business situations into everyday life as well. I am constantly working to find ways toteach these principles to my own girls as well as instill these principles in the young adults that I work with daily in the collegiate atmosphere that I work within.

With this in mind, over the next few days I will be examining the 4 points within the 4 way test as they relate to parenting and how we raise our children. I hope that you will stop back by to see what is in store!


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