Here are a few ways you can implement the 4-Way Test in your personal or professional life:
Use it as a decision-making tool: When you are faced with a difficult decision, consider how your choice aligns with the principles of the 4-Way Test. This can help you make more ethical choices and ensure that your actions are in line with your values.
Incorporate it into your daily life as a guide for how you interact with others. For example, try to be truthful in all your interactions, ensure that you are treating others fairly, and work to build goodwill and strengthen friendships.
Share it with others: such as colleagues at work, friends, or family members, and discuss how you can all work to uphold these values in your relationships and decisions.
Use it as a teaching tool to teach others about ethical behavior in classrooms to help others develop their own ethical code and make better decisions in their personal and professional lives.
- We put out 7 new recycle cans and found business partners and Rotarians to take on the recycling.
- We put decals at the library and Chamber of Commerce to encourage people to download the historic Walking Tour map to help protect the environment.
- We planned the Rotary Park project based on a club survey. got a grant, put out an RFP for artists, created and installed a floating roost, evaluated art, and more.
- We updated our website, wrote many articles, created a new filing system, and created more social media posts than previously to get the word out on who Rotary is.
- We raised money for great causes with our Golf Tournament
- We donated coats ($800) to kids in need with "Coats for Kids".
- We helped make sure people had food to eat during the holidays by delivering food from Safeway to the Food Bank.
- We put on a fun event for the community with Breakfast with Santa and donated the proceeds to the Boys and Girls Club.
- We did our annual Halloween Carnival Booth.
- We beautified our Memorial Garden.
- We hosted our District Governor, Mike Ferris, Lt. Governor Lisa Phillips, and Kenai Peninsula Assistant Governor Jess Gutzwiler with a wonderful Bourbon-Themed party and showed off our projects.
- We supported the Future Famers of America with a $500 donation to help fund their travel to a competition.
- Our club enjoyed a wonderful Christmas party.
- We enjoyed a wide range of interesting speakers and invited the community to join us for lunch every week.
- We supported international projects by donating $1500 to Shelterbox to provide emergency shelter and other aid items to families around the world who have lost their homes to disaster or conflict.
- We donated $1000 to the Wakami Foundation to purchase tablets for the Girls Club Educational Program in rural Guatemala.
- Several members went to Mexico and volunteered time on Project Amigo.
- We will be donating Happy Dollars in the month of January to the Wakami project to support their new regenerative farming program. Donations will go to purchase seeds and lead a workshop to teach about square-foot gardening. Several of our members plan to travel to Guatemala to participate in February.