Slice of Cake, For All!

     It’s hard to compare one club to another, as it is comparing your grandma’s top prize winning cake recipe at the fair to your best friend’s grandma’s top prize winning cake recipe at the next county fair over.  Are the ingredients the same?  Did all of the ingredients get added this time the cake was made?  Or did we miss adding the vanilla, or the baking soda and half the flour?

     Leaving the vanilla out could leave the taste off a bit, yet it’s still a decent cake.  But leaving the baking powder out and half the flour … you aren’t left with much of a cake and it doesn’t look very tasty either.

     Are we seeing this in our clubs … are all of the ingredients there to make everything run smoothly?  The meetings go as planned … Lion tamer gets there in time to set the room up, greeters are there welcoming members, especially the new ones, the agendas are prepared and kept on schedule, members step up and take a lead role in a project or assist with another.  Membership is bringing in new members, program chair keeps interesting topics coming forward, etc. etc. That’s a recipe for a good meeting and you leave with a good taste of accomplishment.

     Or do you see some of the ingredients in place and others missing or short in commitment?  When we were sworn into our clubs, we vowed to help and assist for the betterment of the club.  Some clubs are short on ingredients and the results can be like a fallen cake.  It might be that we need to look at our members and see what ingredients might be missing from having the best club ever.  We need to get them back in the mix!  It doesn’t matter if it’s from scratch with lots of ingredients or a jiffy mix with just a few, when all ingredients are present the taste left in our hearts and minds brings us back for another slice.

Pete Runnels  -  District Governor 36G

‘Be Instrumental in Service’