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1. The moment you realize that youth application you just got doesn't have membership fees attached.
2. What National thinks you do.
What everyone else you meet thinks you do.
What You Actually Do
3. How you feel after you make a big Ask...and succeed!
4. Annual Planning Conferences.
5. When your volunteer gets you the MLS roster.
6. Scoutnet.
7. Your initial reaction to a "Cub Mama Drama" situation
How you feel when the drama continues.
8. When it's your turn to explain your "Projection Plan" at a Staff Meeting
9. "We'll get our recharter in to you sometime next week."
10. When you see a "Proud Of My Eagle Scout" or any Scouting-related bumper sticker on the car in front of you.
11. Scoutnet.
12. You find this obscure Disney film strangely appealing.
13. All that Cub Scouts ultimately want to do at Day Camp.
14. Your reaction to most "great ideas" volunteers give you.
15. The Five Stages of Recharter...As Told By Arrested Development
Stage One: Realize Recharter is about to start.
Stage two: Stay as positive and happy as possible about Recharter to keep the volunteers motivated.
Stage three: Look over the Recharter paperwork for mistakes as it comes in. Find a lot of them.
Stage four: Go home and do this.
Stage five: Four months later, when the recharter is done, turn it in and do the Happy Dance!
16. Your internal reaction when you let down a volunteer you really like.
17. Your reaction when a bothersome volunteer calls you.
18. Going in to a meeting with a big wig for a membership call and walking out with an FOS check.
19. How you feel when someone talks trash about Scouting.
20. Your reaction to seeing a "Join Cub Scouts" sign somewhere.
21. "Nah, we don't need to recruit. Our Pack has enough kids."
22. Getting new FOS and Membership Chairs.
23. The promise that one day, Scouting's internal technology systems will move into the 20th century.
24. When a Scoutmaster who doesn't let the boys lead the program asks you why his Troop has low retention.
25. How you swear some volunteers feel about you.
26. Asking for the applications at the end of a joining night, not wanting them to "take it home and think it over"
27. When you leave a succesful joining event.
28. Your reaction when at a CPD Training and you hear about someone else's council...
29. When you make FOS but not membership
30. Your feeling after pretty much every event.
31. When your DFS asks you about something you'd hoped he had forgotten about.
32. When the FOS luncheon is over...
33. How You Describe Scouting to Teenagers.
Which is pretty much the truth, actually.
Seriously, though. Scouting Pretty Much Rules. Time And Time Again.
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34. Because High School Sports can Make You a Jock, but Scouting Can Make You a Superhero...
...or an Astronaut...
...Or Mike Rowe.
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Seriously, every speech this Eagle Scout gives at a Scouting event is gold.
35. And no matter how many 10-Hour days you've put in this month...
...no matter how many fires you had to put out, no matter what egos and sillyness you had to deal with while keeping a smile on your face...
...even no matter how much trying to use Scoutnet is like trying to put a square peg through a round hole...
...all you need to make it worthwhile is to see how the movement you represent is a positive force in the lives of youth across the country.
36. Whether it's a group of Boy Scouts setting out on an adventure...
...or a proud Tiger Cub earning his first badge.
37. Really, though, how many other people can say their jobs are making a positive impact on the world?
So stop reading this! Get out there and recruit!
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