Thursday, February 4, 2016
Speaker: Todd Musselman, motivational speaker and musician, father of three, fly fisherman from Steamboat was the speaker. He said if we are silent about an issue or discussion, then we accept it. If you are silent about something but don't accept it, then resentment is the result. He asked the group who would sing with him, who may be afraid to sing. If you are afraid, what is it that you are afraid of? Fear of judgement, fear of not being good enough. What does it mean to be fearless? No one is fearless. Having courage, being courageous, that is what we should aspire to, not being fearless. Todd has gone through bankruptcy in his family business. He wanted to be a speaker, wanted to be a musician, but fear got in the way. A major sports injury changed his life. He went through a long "pity party" wallowing with other victims until his mom stopped it. "You knew the risks in your sport, you need to accept what happened and move on with your life." Then he pulled out a neglected guitar and slowly began a creative process and path he is still on. Through many ups and downs, plateaus, he grew in his newfound passion. The lessons he has learned along the way: you need to accept and be accountable for where you are in life. And you need commitment to have any success. What are you interested in and what are you committed to? The difference is suffering; your spirit will suffer if you don't commit to achievement. It's not what happens to us that matters but what we do with it. You need to create the results you want in life.
Then Todd and the group sang "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" and asked "what do we want from life?" Purpose, peace, balance, love, spiritual connection; by the way, it's a process, not a destination. We are all born to create, when you do you can ignore the little voice that says you can't do things, every relationship in your life is based on conversations, listening, slowing down. You can change someones' life whenever you want to. Don't ever believe when you say to yourself " I'm not good enough". Everyone asks themselves "am I good enough?"; there is no answer.
Something we all can relate to as Rotarians; get good at service and see what happens.
Announcements: The entire club sang "Happy Birthday" to President John Ward. Our blushing president encouraged all Rotarians to come to the board meeting on February 19.
Guests: Rick Check (Mike Kosdroskey), Jill Winkler (Justin Barrow), Annabelle Ward (youth exchange student for 2016-17) and father Bob Ward, Barbara Bakios-Wickes (Steve Wickes), Vel Engels (John Engels)
