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...‘Sounds better since you tuned it up’...
By Gary Pundt
TIAA State President
That is a phrase I heard my father say on many occasions. I believe this phrase applies to our association. You see just like an internal combustion engine we need to perform periodic maintenance. Do you remember the first time you fired that new engine up and how good it sounded, but then you had to tweak here and adjust there to the get the performance that you wanted? Once you achieved your desired results you closed the hood, filled up the tank and cruised for a while. Once in a while you needed to pop the hood to clean the carburetor or adjust the timing. Occasionally you had to clean or replace the spark plugs. Sometimes we would get busy and neglect our engine or forget to change the oil. We wouldn’t make the critical adjustments required to keep it running at top performance. When the engine misfired and stalled out we were forced to address the problems. Sometimes we would uncover other problems we did not even know existed.
This is the path that we as an association have been traveling on for some time now. Our engine started to hesitate and was stalling out. The exit we were turning off on was going to take us down a road that would have forever changed our association. We would no longer have been the Texas “Independent” Automotive Association.
Rest assured that your board of directors has been active in the in the repair process. We replaced the spark plugs that were worn, rotated the tires and stuck a hot cam in the engine.
Our association is moving forward gaining momentum each day. Our members are the fuel that powers this machine and I am inviting all of you to jump in and join the ride. We have a tremendous opportunity before us to build on a great organization and to increase the value to everyone in this association and our industry.
To grow our association and become more valuable to our membership, we need fresh ideas and one good referral from each one of you. It is no different than the person who came up with the idea of the electronic ignition or the distributor-less ignition systems. I wonder how many people would have thought that those ideas would never work. The bottom line is we have changed the plugs, adjusted the timing, and are off to a great start. It sounds good since we tuned it up, but we need you to add the extra fuel in the tank.
(This article published from Topics Fall 2007 issue) |
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