Good evening all,
After finishing my first week, being a Locum Pharmacist, I'm very happy with the decision I've made with the change in direction of my career.
It's a great opportunity to work in a different geographical environment, be surrounded with different staff and customers and to work within different business models.
I am very grateful to my fantastic team of Board Members, especially Bernie, who has been thrown into the deep end. Thank you to all of you for continuing with the administration of the Club, in my absence.
Recently, I've been writing about the reasons we join Rotary. One of those reasons was to have FUN. Apart from the Four Way Test, which we always talk about, why can't we have a Fifth Test ?
Is it Fun?
We all know and love The Four-Way Test. In many ways, it’s an improvement on the age-old golden rule that you should treat others the way you wish to be treated. It’s a guide for living, a tool for decision making, a moral code. While Rotary has been served well by these four questions, they may not be enough in an era in which Rotary is trying to appeal to more people and have a broader impact.There is another crucial question that we as Rotary members must always ask ourselves, and it is this: Is it fun? This is the question I ask myself with everything I do. If it isn’t fun, I don’t do it. Some people may scoff at that mentality, but in my mind, life is too short to waste on things I don’t enjoy. There are a hundred other organizations I could be a part of. If Rotary isn’t fun, why should I join? And if I am already a member, but I’m not having fun, why should I stay?Of course, I speak for myself, and perhaps I can also presume to speak for other young people. But I imagine that how I feel is also how many Rotary members feel all over the world. We all want to have fun while serving the sick, the impoverished, the embattled, and the hungry. And in my experience, Rotary can be the most fun part of my life.But often, clubs become so entrenched in their habits that they forget to have fun. If Rotary isn’t fun, how can we light a fire in the hearts of our members? How can we increase our membership? How can we survive? We must constantly ask ourselves: Is what we are doing fun?This may not be a question fit for enshrining in the codes of Rotary, and perhaps it doesn’t even warrant recitation at weekly meetings. However, it’s probably the most important question we can ask ourselves when making decisions in our clubs. What we do in Rotary is not primarily for our own benefit, but people must enjoy Rotary if it is to survive. This is the real golden rule of Rotary clubs: If what we do isn’t fun, then it’s not worth doing.
I believe our Club does have FUN. Our Meetings are fun, as we don't take ourselves too seriously. We all enjoy and have FUN helping each other out at the various Service Projects the Club is involved with. Remember, to attract new Members and keep existing Members, we have to have a point of difference. That point of difference may well be FUN !
Have a great week and I look forward to seeing you all, soon.