Living the Four-Way Test #4

Living the Four-Way Test #4

Question Four: Will it be Beneficial to All Concerned?Every choice we make lands on someone. How we plan a service project, decide something at work, help a neighbor, or choose our words in a tense moment affects other people, whether we intended it or not.The fourth...
Living the Four-Way Test #3

Living the Four-Way Test #3

Question Three: Will it Build Goodwill and Better Friendships?A thoughtful comment can stay with someone for years. So can a careless one. Every conversation and every email gives us a choice: are we building a bridge or putting up a barrier?Most of the time we...
Living the Four-Way Test #2

Living the Four-Way Test #2

Question Two: Is it Fair to All Concerned?Every day we make decisions that affect other people, often without thinking about it. A quick email, a comment online, a committee vote⏤even the small matter of whose opinion gets airtime at a meeting.Most of these choices...
Meet Us in Minneapolis

Meet Us in Minneapolis

TRIP ORGANIZER  TBD There’s nothing quite like a Rotary International Convention. For a few days, Rotarians from around the world come together to exchange ideas, discover new projects, renew old friendships and make new ones.In 2028, the Rotary International...
Living the Four-Way Test #1

Living the Four-Way Test #1

Question One: Is it the Truth?Most of us feel that we’re honest. We don’t lie, we don’t cheat, and if you asked, we’d say we tell the truth as a matter of course.But the first question of the Four-Way Test asks for something harder than not...