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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1799388, member: 28199&quot;]Then my advice would be to table the presentation for now and concentrate your efforts on getting organized.&nbsp; Get a number and see how much interest you have in this club.&nbsp; Starting off by conducting your first meeting with a lecture may tend to alienate the very people you want to attract.&nbsp; Especially if the interested members are older men and women.&nbsp; Ease into the club-based lectures until you actually have a club.&nbsp; Keep in mind being the &quot;founding father&quot; doesn&#039;t equate to club president.&nbsp; This is where organizing comes in.&nbsp; Being to pushy will defeat what I think you&#039;re trying to accomplish.&nbsp; What you present above seems less like a club and more like an invitation to a lecture series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next to an &quot;elderly community&quot;?&nbsp; What exactly, is this?&nbsp; A nursing home?&nbsp; A retirement village?&nbsp; Rather than invite them to your meetings, maybe consider having an occasional meeting there.&nbsp; Check with the administrator of that facility.&nbsp; These places love to host different events for the benefit of the residents.&nbsp; You may actually learn something from them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what age range you&#039;re in, but based on the conversation I&#039;m assuming in the under 18 bracket.&nbsp; So:</p><p><br /></p><p>Bit of advice </p><p><br /></p><p>Statements like this come across as arrogance.&nbsp; This will be the biggest turn-off to potential members of your club.&nbsp; Look at this more as a learning rather than a teaching experience for you.&nbsp; You&#039;ll get more out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anther piece of advice (and I mean this not as an insult but as a bit of teaching on my part), clean up your spelling and grammar.&nbsp; I know this is just an internet forum, and we all tolerate the mistakes, but if you prepare Power Point presentations in the same manner you post, your program will not get your ideas across and you will quickly lose&nbsp; your audience.&nbsp; Use the opportunities to post to practice good spelling and grammar.&nbsp; Proof-read, use a spell checker.&nbsp; I used to coach midget football, my responsibility being the first year players.&nbsp; These were 8 year-olds.&nbsp;&nbsp; The number one thing I preached every day was practice like it means something.&nbsp; Sloppy practices will always result in sloppy games.&nbsp; You play exactly like you practice.&nbsp; The same holds true here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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