Today's speaker was John Rusvlyan, the Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club. Their local cause is called Shoals Scholar Dollars. In this program, they pay 2 years of college at NW Shoals to students who would not be able to pay for college without it who have at least a 2.5 GPA and have at least a 95% attendance. I think this is a really awesome cause! This is a cause that is much needed, and it's awesome that his group took the initiative to do this!
"Successful is the man who does today what you were planning to do tomorrow."
Initiative. That's what gets things done. If everyone took the initiative to fix one thing in their community, we would never have an excuse to complain. We would never have anything to complain about at all because we'd be doing something about it. What a productive world that would be! Everyone has ideas that can improve their community, so just go and make something happen. Go figure it out today and keep working on it until you succeed and make a difference.
Nike says it the best: "Just do it!" This doesn't apply to only civic engagement and community service; it goes with school work (and not procrastinating), organizations and clubs (planning that super cool event), and everywhere else there is a need. So find a need and fix it... Today!
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