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Today's Events:

President Bill Enright presiding

Felix Pardo

&

Rolf Frankfurter RCCG

* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T S  * * *

Save the Dates

Monday, August 4, 2008 @  6:00 p.m.

Board Meeting followed by a Club Foundation Meeting

First National Bank of South Miami

The International Fellowship of Hunting and Fishing Rotarians hosts a fishing trip for kids so bring your children / grandchildren to the Miami City Marina

See Fabio for more information

fernandezfabio@bellsouth.net / (305) 205-2117

Saturday, December 6, 2008 @ 7pm

The Rotary Business2 Business Directory

ROTARIAN to ROTARIAN BUSINESS DIRECTORY

A fantastic opportunity to help you network and provide business opportunities....why?

* maximize your business exposure among Rotarians in District 6990

* conduct business with professionals who support the 4-Way Test

* reach 2200 professionals for only $50 (not a fundraiser; just pays for printing of booklet)

* you write the copy, so you determine the "pitch"

log on now to:  www.rotariantorotarian.biz

click on "purchase" - right hand tool bar

complete quick survey

pay $50 (VISA, MasterCard only)

Deadline:  September 15, 2008.

Questions?  Felipe Madrigal, Chair, R2R Business Directory  femadrig@bellsouth.net or 305-298-5917.

Entertainment Books 2009 are COMING!

Buy and sell them for $30 & $15 comes to the Club.

Included are four $5 coupons to use at Publix!

David Jacobs will be the club’s distributor.

SOUTH MIAMI ROTARY ARTS FESTIVAL

Saturday & Sunday, February 21 – 22, 2009

Diana:

Announcements:  Diana – sponsors to our show.  Packets with a merchants circle of $200 or Friends of the Festival for $100

Annie Goodrich is setting up these categories. 

Think SPONSORSHIPS!!!!!

~~which allows our club to offer future scholarships~~

www.southmiamiartfest.com  (official site)

 www.myspace.com/southmiamiartfest (unofficial site)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Miami_Rotary_Art_Festival (wiki encyclopedia article)

$$$ PRINTER CARTRIDGES FUNDRAISER $$$

Our club goal is 100% Attendance!

If you miss a meeting, it can be made-up within 2 weeks, before or after, of the missed meeting date.

For online make-ups:

http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/eclub_list.pdf

For make-ups anywhere around the world when traveling internationally: http://rotary.org/support/clubs/index.html

President:  Bill Enright
bill@handsonmiami.org

President Elect:  Pansy Graham

pansygraham@bellsouth.net

Vice President: Mike Mills

millsmike@aol.com

Secretary:  Doreen Reitnauer

dhiker217@aol.com

Treasurer: David Jacobs

david@jnccpas.com

Sergeant at Arms:  Azam Malik

azam@sdsol.com

To send an E-mail to the Rotary Club of South Miami’s Board of Directors, board@southmiamirotary.org

South Miami Rotary Club:
www.southmiamirotary.org

Rotary District 6990:

www.rotary6990.org

World Organization:
www.rotary.org

Mission Statement

The mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

THE 4-WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO:   

Benefits of Being A Rotarian (Membership)
Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:

¨       Become connected to your community.

¨       Work with others in addressing community needs.

¨       Interact with other professionals in your community;
assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.

¨       Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.

¨       Develop leadership skills.  Involve family in promoting service efforts.

Renewing or Joining
To Renew ($250) or to become a New Member ($300) contact

Asaad Massoud, at www.racharters.com

Fundraisers
Interested in putting together a fundraiser? Contact Club Service Chair Linda Kaplan at

lk@lindakaplan.com

Program Chair Darrell Downs introduced

Stephanie Goldberg Glazer, President
Your Personal Manager, Inc.
954-925-TIME (8463)
www.yourpersonalmanager.com
info@yourpersonalmanager.com

Stephanie talked about the secrets to managing our time in order to find and organize a life when you are working long hours and have no time for activities

Your Personal Manager helps clients to balance the mundane and time consuming tasks allowing them to free up time. 

Her company is on-call office help, organizing offices, closets, or an entire house.  It is full service concierge desk, paying your bills on time, creating and maintaining a budget, planning a party, a meeting or a corporate event.  They will run errands, wait for repair people, return business calls, file paperwork, gift shop, and arrange your travel plans.  They are a small business’ administrative outsourcing.  She assists with packing and moving.  They help get rid of the items you no longer need, or are duplicates, so you do not pay to move unnecessary items. 

Stephanie graduated from Wash University in St. Louis. 

The recycling buzzwords are everywhere in the media:  “go green”, “save money, while saving the planet.”

Organization can equal going green.  Small things matter such as printing out emails.  A solution for one client was to implement a $10 software program that is able to store emails as PDFs with an online backup system.

REDUCE PAPER:  Scan your cherished paperwork – from school papers to your first jobs.

REDUCE PLASTIC: Use one reusable bag instead of taking plastic bags from stores. 

Plastic bottles – number 7 on the bottom – can’t put them in the microwave causing cancer.

REPURPOSE things – like a shoebox can be used to store holiday ribbons and bows.

Get rid of the things you don’t need to find sanity in your life. Par down a little bit to be more comfortable in your surroundings.Things pile up and you get overwhelmed.  Reduce a little bit of stuff everyday. 

Storage facilities cost $200 / month.They are abused because people collect too much stuff and they don’t even have a contents list.

Establish a filing system.Color code your files.Vary colors based on: clients, vendors, staff, personal, bills.

Any kind of organizational project can be beneficial but you must participate in the organization of your stuff.You’re guided in the decision-making. 

When are your piles out of control? When the stuff on the office desk was the “old” five year old info and the new paperwork was stacked in the kitchen and the dining room table.

Sign up for electronic billing – as long as you know there is sufficient balance in your bank account. A discussion ensued about secure payments online.The consensus was to pay through the bank’s automatic pay feature. 

A personal assistant adds time to your day – but you must trust with the assistant with your accounts and secrets. All of her employees sign a confidentiality agreement. Your personal info is kept as if it were her personal info.