Day Meeting Minutes - 10/17/2023

Good Afternoon and Welcome to Rotary
Pledge of allegiance and 4-way test
Visiting Rotarians, Guests, and Zoomers.

Guests

Kim Groshek Speaker 

Student Rotarians--

  • Student Rotarians
    • LMHS-
      • Wk 3-fun fact
        • Eleah Castro
        • Madison Dable
    • LLHS-
      • Wk 3 -fun fact
        • Kooper Mlsna
        • Christian Collins
Happy Bucks
  • Jenny- It's her Daughter, Meg's, 21st Birthday. They will be celebrating at Pyramid Event Venue tonight. 
  • Deb updated Guitars and Veterans Flyers. Her morning Coffee Veterans continue Saturdays, and she is starting a non-profit. 
  • Jason’s friends who lives in Israel reached out and is safe.

Fines

None.

Birthdays

None.

CLUB BUSINESS - Announcements and committee reports

  • Next week Denny will be giving a talk on his experience in Rotary.
  • Next week Tuesday there will be an optics screening at Lake Mills Elementary School. This is an opportunity to volunteer. This position is to lead students to from classroom to testing center.
  • The American Red Cross Blood Drive is next Wednesday from 8:30pm to 1:30pm. It is full. Keep your eyes open because they give incentives for donating.
  • The Lake Mills Rotary Club has voted Anita Martin in for the Member at Large Position. The next Board Meeting will be on November 1st at 7:00am at City Hall.
  • Music in the Mills is still running the numbers. They think they have not made as much money as they would have wanted, but it is still a big success.
  • There will be a Recording Secretary open in July. We are looking at filling this sooner than July for some shadowing and help with this position.
 
PROGRAM -
Kim Groshek "Power of the Pause"
Helps professionals implement a “pause” into their day. She does this to leave a legacy for her 35-year-old daughter. She wants to help build a peaceful world. She is a Computer and Cognitive Scientist by trade. Back in 2007 she was walking the streets in Chicago, prior to cell phones being everywhere. She remembers a 7-year-old boy walking down the street with his game boy and bumped into her. He just continued walking. It made her reminisce on her youth where she was taught to respect her elders, to the point where she was taught to get up and offer her seats to elders as a sign of respect.
 
In this moment, she realized that technology would soon take the driver’s seat and would shape our daily lives. Due to her job, she was one of the first on social media. She became absorbed rather quickly and decided to delete social media for a year. This was interesting as her job was literally to add “personality” to computer technology. She journaled about this time, and eventually wrote a book about it.
 
Last September, she decided to semi-retire. Carnell University propositioned her to do a TEDx Talk. She accepted but had a lot of learning to do. She had to learn how to present, how to utilize the stage, and it was a lot of work. This is where she realized the “pause” was so important. The “pause” is turning off your cell phones and unplugging from technology. It is uncomfortable to unplug because habit leads us to technology.
What was learned through research working on the TEDx Talk was that this “pause” is so important. It takes you out of the chaos. Technology leads to a “never stop mentality” and leads us to fast thinking, anxiety, and exhaustion. She is working on a pilot program that can be implemented in businesses, schools, organizations, and more. This is a movement of the “pause” that will lead to a calmer, productive, and peaceful world.

Meeting adjourned 1:00pm

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