President’s Report

Gone Fishin’! Oh, I have been struggling with this month’s topic of interest for you all. I keep coming back to the ever popular phrase gone fishin’. It is acts as a metaphor for the reason of I don’t feel like working! Now, that isn’t my case that I don’t feel like working—it is just I am drawing a blank on a splendid topic for discussion. Maybe it is because this time of year certainly brings out the laid back attitude in people that we truly wish we had all the time in the world to go fishing!

But, in reality our jobs, families, friends, and citizens still need us. Our cities do not shut down at 5:00 each day— they continue to need someone to carry on and make sure all things are right with the world at the end of the day.

How do we keep our focus on the important, hard tasks that confront us on a daily basis? By taking each element, hopefully one at a time and see the big picture for what we need to do. I always joke that I am not good at “multitasking”. Whenever an incident or challenge is presented to me—I tend to hit it face on and see it through until it is completed. As we look out the window during our beautiful South Dakota summer days; we need to remember our tasks do not allow us to go fishin’ as much as we would like—but yet at the end of the day, I hope you are satisfied with what you have done, what you have learned and what you have given to your community. And find the time to relax because in the long run we need that down time as it will motivate us to tackle the important days ahead.

Until next month, I will watch for you as you catch the “big one”!

Jeanne Duchscher President