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read this, then I will put can find another club that will listen, or you can
you in a drawing for a start a brand new club of your own!

$20 Amazon Gift Card I don’t like being anywhere I am not wanted.
(or a 54 volume set of I want to feel welcome when I speak, when
the Great Books of I listen, or when I am having a bad day. I’ve
the Western World). visited clubs that did not resonate with me, did

Seriously, you have a not feel welcoming, or didn’t exist (empty room
really good chance of where they used to meet but hadn’t for months).
winning if you are the Everyone has different tastes and preferences. A
one person reading this club I like isn’t always the best fit for someone

article...and you can else and vice versa. But when you find the right
pick your prize! Please fit, it is magic! You are heard!
don’t hang up…contest “I am so glad you were here today. I learn so
deadline is August 1st, 2019. much from you when you speak or evaluate. I

Do you feel listened to saw you weren’t going to be at the meeting and
in your club? Do you have am really glad you were able to make it. What
a supportive and reassuring you said today really rang true with me. Thanks.”
member base? Do evaluators I heard those words recently. Really

let speakers know how to brightened my day, I’ve got to say! Conversely,
improve their speeches? Or if someone gives a speech that resonates with
are you feeling dismissed, you, or writes an article you enjoy (there are lots
bogged down, or sidelined of writers in this magazine) let them know. Let

by your club? If the them know you were listening.
last is true, you James Wantz, DTM, is a regular contributor,
have several the outgoing D7 Pathways Coordinator (there’s
options: you can a job opening if anyone is interested), oversees

suggest ways to a plethora of cats, and can be reached at
improve the wantzjames@yahoo.com
club so you
are heard, you

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