The Happiness Formula
Meeting for the week of December 14 - December 20, 2020
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: The Happiness Formula
Speaker: Anil Gupta
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 make sure to complete the attendance form at the bottom and leave a comment. Enjoy!
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from Angelica Marotta - Online Socials Subcommittee Member
Angelica Marotta
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
Review of the Bylaws for our Club
Every few years, we review the bylaws for our club. Raquel and the board created a bylaws committee this year to do just that. Led by Phil Dean and supported by Rory, Carlos, Raquel, Brett and myself, the committee thoroughly reviewed and updated the bylaws. Thank you to all the committee members for their hard work!
The board has approved the draft bylaws and they are attached here for your review. The next step after board approval is membership review.
The membership review period for the bylaws is 14 days. Following that review period ending December 15, there will be a request to approve via an email vote by all members.
Please provide any feedback to secretary@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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 !
Do You Suffer From Lexophilia?
Lexophilia is a word used to describe those that have a love for words, such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish", or "to write with a broken pencil is pointless." A competition to see who can come up with the best lexophiles is held every year in an undisclosed location. This year's winning submission is posted at the very end.
.. When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
.. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
.. The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
.. A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
.. A will is a dead giveaway.
.. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
.. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
.. When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall.
.. Police were summoned to a day-care centre where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
.. Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.
.. A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.
.. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
.. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.
.. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
.. When she saw her first strands of grey hair she thought she'd dye.
.. Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.
..And the cream of the twisted crop: Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end!
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
About this time each year, Google releases a video that tells what people around the world have been searching for. Here is the 2020 video.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Hunger and malnutrition unleashed by COVID-19 could carry the impact of the pandemic far into the future. Fortunately, there are ways to help from reducing food waste to supporting food drives and more.
https://on.rotary.org/3kJMYEk
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
Arches National Park in Utah is an amazing place. I took these three photos in 2011. The most iconic is Delicate Arch in the center.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Sometimes You Just Need a Good Laugh!
Hope this is one of those times, as this 8 minute clip has one of the best versions of one of the greatest routines in comedy: Abbott & Costello performing "Who's On First". My face is still hurting from laughter!! As a kid, I had an album (vynil!) with a shorter version and painstakingly transcribed it into a handwritten script. Though I no longer have it, I did use it for a Toastmasters Advanced Manual project that had at least two people interacting in a dialogue. It was hysterical, and I was dizzy by the time I finished!! -Shags
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Week of Dec 13th - Send Christmas and Hanukkah cards to your local senior home or to Love For Our Elders
Love For Our Elders
P.O. Box 24248
Cleveland, OH 44124
USA
How many cards you should make: 3-5
Ideas:
https://www.gifts.com/blog/diy-christmas-card-ideas
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g4080/clever-diy-christmas-cards/
Please postmark by December 18th so it gets to the Senior Home.
Don’t forget to take a selfie or a screenshot and post it to the #52-ways-to-be-a-more-engaged-rotarian channel!
https://app.slack.com/client/TNH7VRC0M/C01CQ53AE95
Thank you to the following Rotarians for posting about last week's challenge:
-Cal Man
-Ferheen Abbasi
-Alexandra Heller
-Sandy Stabile
Here are a few pictures of the toy Ferheen donated and of the Bill Wilson Adopt A Family Toy Drive:
Here is what Sandy did this week!
"Participated in a Toys for Tots toy drive with some Rotarian friends.
Someone did an anonymous $15,000 donation. Walmart did a grant of $4,000. The Marines who collect and distribute the toys brought two 7 ton trucks. Had a lot of fun shopping."
Club Announcements
Haven't joined the conversation on Facebook yet? Consider joining the conversation by signing into our club members-only Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/rotarysiliconvalley/
Service Project Information
Club members, if you are participating or have previously participated in a service project as part of our club, could you please complete the following form:
https://forms.gle/jxfpHHiKBv7P5YXy5Seasons Greetings Everyone!
The holiday season is the perfect time to get together with friends and family. With that in mind, we’d like to invite you to our Ugly Sweater Sister Club Holiday Party!
Go find your ugliest Christmas sweater and join us for this can’t miss event. There will be contests, games, and good times as we gather wearing the ugliest Christmas sweaters in the Rotary world!
New Members Introduction
Phil Dean
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Past Events:
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Weather to cool off to near freezing tonight. Will warm up the rest of the week. Cats are happy.
Monique Ziesenhenne made a $25 donation.
TRF-Annual Fund, please. Happy that my daughter, an ICU nurse in New Orleans, is recovering from COVID. Wash your hands! Wear your mask!
Selected Comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Keith Marsh said:
Steve, your story is truly inspirational. Ferheen, I am glad you got to meet KKII. He has been a friend and fellow Rotarian for 30 years. Thanks to Catherine for submitting her photo.
Ferheen Abbasi said:
Thank you for this week’s welcome message, Cal!!
……. HAHAHA She Sells C Cells by the Seashore. That was great.
Tzviatko and I met yesterday! Check out the #CWR channel for a picture and write-up!
Great picture, Catherine!
I refuse to watch videos about any kind of spider. No thank you :P
Yay! Thank you Alexandra for donating last week!
Welcome to the club, Gabi!
Thank you so much for your presentation Coach Stokes! I try to use my GYM Bandz every week :)
Nick LaGarde said:
Thanks Steve for telling us your story and how you became an inventor! I love hearing it and I wish you all the best luck. It seems like a great product!
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: The Happiness Formula
Speaker: Anil Gupta
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Find out what this formula is so that you can immediately apply this to your life
Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Member Anil Gupta overcame suicide in 2008 and has since then formulated the Happiness Formula; spoken on Fox News, Harvard, and Sky TV; given a TEDx talk; written a best-selling book, Immediate Happiness; and founded The Happiness Score.
He has created his Perfect Partner Program without Dating for singles struggling in relationships, and performs his relationship and mindset workshops in over 18 countries and translated in 8 languages, with audiences of over 10,000 fans. Anil has a unique intuitive gift to remove the blockages that prevent people living fulfilled lives, in just a matter of hours.
Anil is on a mission to inspire 1 billion people and is always available to share his unique and powerful content.
Members and guests, please welcome Anil Gupta!
Learn more at:
http://www.myhappytest.com - to find out what your happiness score is.
http://www.meetanil.com- Anil's website
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.
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