It Starts with the Mindset
MEETING FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 27, 2025
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: It Starts with the Mindset
Speaker: Mitch Weisburgh
Is this your first time to visit us? If so, welcome to our weekly online meeting! To complete our meeting, please continue reading from here to the bottom of this page. Each Monday, our week’s meeting is posted early in the morning, U.S. Pacific Time. These meetings are designed so that you can read and watch what we post anytime during the week. The entire meeting takes about 60 minutes to complete, with the video conference recording of the program being the bulk of the time. Note that you can easily read this meeting with your favorite device, so feel free to take our meeting on the go with you. Please also complete the attendance form at the bottom and leave a comment. Enjoy!
To properly attend this meeting, please:
Read and watch the content below in its entirety.
Complete the attendance survey.
Everyone is encouraged to leave a comment in the Disqus section at the bottom of the page.
Message from our President
Welcome our members, fellow Rotarians, friends, and guests. Thanks for joining our weekly meeting!
WEEKLY FUNNY WITH SHAGS
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin!
The Two Men Standing by the Door
Six-year old Angie and her four-year old brother, Joel, were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang and talked out loud. Finally, his big sister had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church."
"Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked.
Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, "See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers."
INSPIRATION
This is another video we shared in our club's first year, a decade ago. It's called The Power of Words, and might challenge you to think what words you use to describe what inspires you about serving others.
LEARN SOMETHING NEW
Bitcoin Explained
My rule regarding any investment is that if I can't explain how it works to a 4th grader, it's probably too complicated for my risk-of-loss comfort level.
Are you receiving the Members Only Weekly Bulletin?
Our Club News and Member links are now on the Members Only ClubRunner Site and are emailed weekly as a Club Bulletin. Please make sure your email address is current on ClubRunner.
Members, be sure to read our Weekly Club Bulletin, which is sent separately to your email address from ClubRunner each Monday. In it, you will find updates and information about what our members are up to, club activities, projects, Happy Dollars, news from District 5170, and various ways you can support The Rotary Foundation. We also send your Dues notices using ClubRunner email.
Our Weekly Bulletin, sent every Monday, provides club information. To stay informed, please ensure your email is current on ClubRunner and add mailservice@clubrunner.ca to your address book so it does not go into Spam.
PROGRAM: It Starts with the Mindset
SPEAKER: Mitch Weisburgh
We bring you a new program every week on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education and how they contribute to service to others.
Why does it seem that so many issues just don’t seem to be getting any better? We think of issues with healthcare, climate change, pollution, education, standards of living, immigration, inequality, and more - does the list end?
Our speaker, Mitch Weisburgh, contends that no real progress in any of these areas is going to happen until we have a critical mass of people who understand mindsets and what he calls "Mindshifting." Since 2018 Mitch has been curating concepts and techniques from diverse fields, including psychology, neuroscience, business strategy, education, coaching, economics, cognitive science, and military strategy, among others. He will show how this comprehensive set of Mindshifting tools can be the foundation for real progress and transforming the world. Mindshifting is how we can learn to enroll each other instead of enraging each other.
Mitch Weisburgh co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, which helps organizations that want to make a difference reach more students in US schools, and started various nonprofit organizations in education such as Games4Ed and Edchat Interactive. Since 2018, Mitch has been creating content and teaching Mindshifting and Sensemaking and has started a Mindshifting Community for educators.
Mitch writes a newsletter at Mindshifting Educators about ways to inspire the mind to learn, centered on his goal is to grow a critical mass of people who understand the Mindshifting techniques, and who can be resilient and resourceful in the face of obstacles, adversaries, and unintended outcomes.
Members and guests, please welcome Mitch Weisburgh!
Find Mitch's Mindshifting Newsletter at:
https://blog.mindshiftingeducators.org/
Background info on Mindshifting and Mindshifting courses:
https://gamma.app/docs/Mindshifting-yxxkbmv122p5bzw?mode=doc
Short video: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success:
https://us02web.zoom.us/clips/share/a7su0KAZXEmUo22aXuUGGms5cU6acyzOxhgy1xtGpzUosDVv6JMKpPS4InRTJMUgy_wXaD4i9f5k5gOllzbrvi_N.JF6hRArXRiIMTqST
"You can't? Maybe you can!" short video:
https://youtu.be/4giFVzTDAUg?si=j1xMQqv0I-lZFtU3
Our Three Podcast Series
Our main program speakers are available as podcasts in addition to YouTube videos! Each week, they are available on Spotify and Apple podcasts.
Or you can click below for this week’s speaker:
The Weekly Rotarian
Inspiring Solutions
And our original podcast, featuring some of the best of our previous speakers, is still available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Development Success Stories
Our third podcast features success stories about economic development from around the world. It is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, or you can click below.
UPCOMING PROGRAM RECORDING SCHEDULE
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
THE ATTENDANCE SURVEY
Thanks for reading and watching this week’s meeting. You have two last things to do before you’re done.
We have a very short attendance survey below for you to fill out to record your attendance.
Visiting Rotarians, this is how you can get an email receipt to pass along to your club’s secretary as proof that you’ve attended our meeting if you need it for makeup.
Non-Rotarian Guests, we would love to see who is dropping by our meetings! This part is optional for you. If you think you may want to join our eClub at some point in the future, we would strongly recommend you fill out the attendance form as it will improve your chances of success for your membership application.
For all members and guests — we strongly recommend and ask that you leave a comment in our comments area below. Tell us how you enjoyed the program. Ask this week’s speaker any questions you might have. Or just stop by and say hello and tell us where you’re from!
Important: Once you submit the Attendance Survey below, please make sure you see the confirmation message. If you get an error message instead, please try the 'submit' button again, and if that doesn't work, please refresh the page and fill out the form again. Thanks!
