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November 12, 2020
 
Our own Bob Walsh made the district newsletter:
 

Kettering Rotary Activities

Kettering Rotary Club has been meeting in person and via Zoom. Zoom speakers have been from around the country and the globe! Membership is up! The club has inducted four new members since July in part to the new Membership initiatives the club introduced.

Kettering Rotary Club is donating turkeys to The Widow's Home in Dayton to help them provide an extra special holiday for their residents.

Kettering also pledged $4,810.00 to the Malawi Well Project. It was an honor to join fellow Rotarians and other local club in this worthy project.
 
 
Brenda had to do some quick work today. Our speaker couldn't make it due to having a sore throat She was able to get Scott Brown, a certified business coach. But more on that later. Dan Stevens gave the prayer and pledge with his wife Richa. Bruce Jump then inducted them into membership. Bruce talked of the need to continually add new members to be able to grow and maintain influence in the community. Dan had been a member previously and was President of the club during the 94-95 year. Richa is a retired RN and chaplain for Kettering Health. She knew a lot about Rotary through Dan.
 
Now on to the speaker. Scott Brown owns Focal Point Coaching https://www.focalpointcoaching.com/
 
He talked about how it can be hard to be successful working remotely when it wasn't something that you are used to. There is a struggle to know how to balance between work and home when you are working from home. Many times work can overlap to the home life. (I know, I always wanted a bright line between home and the office, if I brought work home, I would take it back in the same condition. I just aired it out) First, to be successful. we should have right mi9ndedness. If we were going to the top of a mountain to look at the view, it might be a difficult trip and hard to walk up there. But, if we knew that a friend was trapped at the top, that urgency to get up there would make the trip entirely different. When we focus on the situation rather than on ourselves, we are much more successful. We have to remember it's not all about us.
We are all in this together. It is tough to feel connected when we are all virtual. Second, we should have a consistent schedule. It my be harder because we can be much more flexible at home. We should dress up some and not wear sloppy clothing (as I'm taking these notes, I am in jams and a t-shirt).  Third, we should mentally commute to where we are going to do the work. Setting up a specific workplace. (I know of a family that homeschooled the kids. Each morning, just before breakfast, they would walk around the house, and then start school. It was to emulate walking to school.) You should make sure you have appropriate light and a comfortable chair. Also, everyone is different in how we communicate with each other. (I know it can be harder to communicate over zoom when to can't see the body language of the other speakers) You should also have a morning routine, a cup of coffee etc.. Fourth, be careful how you waste time. E-mail is an incredible time waster. You can go from wanting to check e-mail to looking at something on the internet and all of a sudden, two hours have gone by. (A friend of mine would only check e-mail three times a day. First thing in the morning, just after lunch and just before going home) We should also take breaks during the day. We do that at the office, maybe just call people, just to catch up. When we choose to isolate ourselves, that's on us.
Fifth and last, we should have a designated stopping time. A time when we go home. Having a bright line between work and home. If we don't have isolated times between work and home.they will overlap one on top of the other. Phone and anything else that we use for business should be packed up nd put away when we are done. Many people are missing at least one of these components. Remain passionate and engaged. Once you have a routine, look at moving to the next level, adding some to become more and more successful. He doesn't think, that when the pandemic is over, we will go back to doing business like we have in the past. Businesses have found that they may not need all the bricks and mortar that they have in the past.
 
Next week will be another live/zoom meeting with Don O'Connor, Chief of Construction and Planning Montgomery Conservancy District.The Miami Conservancy District is a river management agency operating in Southwest Ohio to control flooding of the Great Miami River and its tributaries. It was organized in 1915 following the catastrophic Great Dayton Flood of the Great Miami River in March 1913, which hit Dayton, Ohio particularly hard.  Don is responsible for managing the planning, design, and construction of MCD infrastructure projects, working on community partner projects, and securing grant funding.  Prior to joining MCD he served as the City Engineer for the City of Fairborn, and as an administrator and professional engineer for the City of Toledo.  He holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Toledo, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio.Don will talk briefly about the 1913 Flood and the history of MCD.  He will discuss our current infrastructure systems and the need for continued maintenance and investment.
The luck of the draw was won by Brenda Wirring, $ 30. As I was taking these notes, I was also seeing the report about the accident and fire they had on the Brent Spence bridge in Cincinnati. That is going to be a colossal mess. The joke about the bridge is do you know why the top deck is southbound and the lower deck is northbound? So those going to Kentucky can drop their shoes to those leaving Kentucky. I have already seen a problem with overweight trying to go over the suspension bridge.
 
Andy
 
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