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Nepal Toilet Project Update

We are now just about half way to our target of 70 toilets in Bhattedande village in Nepal. We have actually completed 32 toilets - 22 septic and 10 biogas.

We hope to construct another 10 in the second half of this year, after the monsoon rains. The local Nepali NGO - Community Health Development Society Nepal - and the village management committee are working to select the next lot of 10 families for toilets. So, we are working hard to raise funds for the project. Remember, any donations to this project are tax deductible. So, Lasho, and let's hope we can keep the project going.

Congrats RC Dee Why Warringah

District Awards Night

Bob Manley, Jenny Smith and Bill Forsyth attended the District Awards Night on Friday 22nd May. RC Dee Why Warringah received 4 awards:

Membership Growth Trophy – Larger Clubs: for our net membership gain of 9 from July 1 to April 30

Community Service Certificate of Achievement: for the efforts of our members in such projects as Remedial Reading at DYPS, Bowel Scan, Project ILYPA, Barefoot, SNAGS (with the Spastic Centre), Stacks-On (Pre-schoolers) and our Community BBQ.

With special awards to:

Jo Ragen: Vocational Excellence Certificate of Achievement
Sandra Meihubers: International Excellence Certificate of Achievement

These awards are the recognition of outstanding achievement for Club members who are active in so many diverse areas. Our thanks go to all those who made this possible.

Patrick Moore - Dancing in the Rain

It was all going pretty well there for a while. I was an author, trainer and I had a law degree. I financed my studies by working in the movies as a stuntman - working alongside stars like Tom Berenger and Titanic's Billy Zane. My work week was a little unusual - hanging out of helicopters, falling off buildings and being set on fire.

I'd written a successful inspirational book, been interviewed on national TV and was about to launch overseas. I taught self defence to kids, had a black belt and won several titles in full contact martial arts. A real tough guy. But then I got hit with the hardest punch of all - the one you don't see coming - a complete mental and physical collapse. A stress induced melt down landed me in hospital battling depression and anxiety. I found out I wasn't so tough. It was a fight for my life.

From breakdown to breakthrough

They say the only way out is through. But my recovery took incredible support, an unlikely angel and a yearning to change. I searched for a simpler approach to work and life. I fired my facebook and squashed my Blackberry.

Then came the hardest, most rewarding part - re booting my mind with new ways of thinking. Negative thoughts are like toxic weeds. You've got to weed them out before they take over the garden. It's called awfulising - and I got really good at it. You invent worst case scenarios which are never going to happen - but it's as if you try to make them happen. Little do you realise it's the thoughts themselves that do the damage.

I learned that thoughts are the seeds which determine our feelings, which lead to our actions. And it's our actions (or inaction) which determine our results and our future. Good, bad or great, it all starts with a thought.

And it's why some people dance in the rain...and others just get wet.

Here are some 'dance lessons' for life and business that I learned, and now share in my talks:

Aim for the Gaps - A simple way to perceive every situation as an opportunity
From Can't to Can - You're stronger than you think
Dream Big - Get on the front foot and start now!
Fatness to Fitness - How I lost 14 kilos by following 3 simple "Golden Rules"

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