Well, here we are in May, your new officers should be taking their positions on the board, but here we are, “Safer at Home.” Hopefully, we made you proud this year, we worked our booties off, even though we were sidelined for the last couple of months. Most words escape me right now, so I thought I could share my musings from the Mid-Year Conference.
These next years will be ones of great change. Change is inevitable and does not come without discomfort, but it is completely necessary to stay relevant, to keep going forward.
Doing things a certain way just because that’s the way we’ve always done it is not an answer or an excuse. It laziness. It’s the inability to accept that there might be a better answer out there. A stubbornness to be open to new ideas. Guess what, new ideas can work with old ideas or alone. They can help us raise more money than we’ve raised before for the children at Mooseheart, the seniors at Moosehaven, and those less fortunate in our communities.
Finding new ways to attract new members through social media, younger members to take the weight of the more physical tasks that are becoming more difficult to do. We look to our past to create our future. Mentoring without judgment, leading without pushing.
Understanding that there might be new ways of doing things or that times are different now and something that might not have worked at one time, might be something that a new generation will embrace. Remember that the only thing that is constant is change.
Thank you.
Fraternally Yours,
Kellee K. Chwala, Sr. Regent