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March 2007 
World Tai Chi Qi Gong Day
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| THE FUTURE OF WTCQD IS IN DANGER, AND IS IN YOUR HANDS - WTCQD T-SHIRTS ARE THE KEY!! -- Organizing a Global Event is Expensive -- WTCQD's Growth has Increased Costs -- Our Efforts to Promote and Refer Students and Media to Local Groups and Schools -- One Tai Chi Teacher Suggested, if this is a burden to me, why don't I quit World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Supporters The continuance of this global healing event is in jeopardy. It depends on funding from you. It is important that you know why Official World Tai Chi & Qigong Day T-SHIRTS are important to us, and to your local efforts. |
Organizing a Global Event is Expensive ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My wife, Angela, and I have literally invested our life savings into creating a vehicle for Tai Chi and Qigong lovers worldwide to celebrate, educate, and build interest in these health & healing arts. Initially when interest exploded in this event, we recieved requests from schools and groups worldwide who wished to be listed on our website as part of the global event. |
WTCQD's Growth has Increased Costs As World Tai Chi & Qigong Day grew, it became impossible not to hire a professional email service. We pay a monthly fee for this. We created forums, hiring a service so that Tai Chi teachers, and health professionals, and those with chronic ailments could share information. We pay monthly fees for these, and other services. We'd like to do even more! Each year we've spent thousands of dollars to help generate media worldwide. I know that when local groups send out Press Releases for your local WTCQD events, it seems like you got the media on your own. However, our endless faxes and phone bills, and printing costs, and mailing costs to hammer the media locally, regionally, and nationally has played a role in your ability to gain media attention for your efforts. |
Our Efforts to Promote and Refer Students and Media to Local Groups and Schools Our free Organizing Kits, Media Kits, and hundreds of hours of research to provide a comprehensive free Medical Research Library, have helped groups worldwide gain more students for their classes. IN FACT, our endless efforts creating researched medical source articles on Tai Chi and Qigong, and our ongoing media efforts have brought, just in the last year since Jan. 1, 2006 . . . 42,802 people to schools listed in our free SCHOOLS DIRECTORY. |
One Tai Chi Teacher Suggested, if this is a burden to me, why don't I quit ?
Once when trying to convey the investment of time and money World Tai Chi & Qigong Day organizing has imposed on me and my family, one Tai Chi teacher suggested, "if this is a burden to you, why don't you quit?"
Yes, that is an option. However, I've felt since the beginning this event was important. I've felt it was important to support the work you all are doing out there.
LET ME EXPLAIN. Both my parents died of stress disease years ago. I tried to teach Tai Chi and Qigong to both of them, with a bit of success. But, in the end, because they had no physician or popular magazines, or television re-enforcing what I was telling them . . . they didn't keep up with their practice.
They both died of heart disease within months of one another. Heart disease, we all know, from reading the medical research we've worked so hard to catalogue and distribute to media, healthcare, and the public . . . disease that Tai Chi and Qigong may have saved them from.
The night before my mother unexpectedly died in a routine angioplasty procedure, she had a premonition of her impending death. She wrote a note the night before she died, that my sister found in a book I'd loaned her. I'd loaned her my copy of The Tao Te Ching to read in her hospital room that night.
The note she left had a personal message for me. It read, "I wish I could go back a few years and learn the arts of relaxation you tried to teach me for a longer life. I so would have loved to see my grandchildren grow up."
So, yes, I could quit, as that Tai Chi teacher suggested I should. But, my heart tells me we can do great things together. I believe this movement can grow so much more rapidly if it remains a free organization, with no dues, and free resources.
This can only happen with your support. The Official World Tai Chi & Qigong Day T-SHIRTS, were a hope that we could help local groups and schools use them to raise money, using the T-Shirts as local fundraisers, but could also support our efforts here.
This week and beyond, we'll be sending out Press Releases to media worldwide. We'll be working full time . . . for little pay. We'll be encouraging media to contact other schools in other cities that we have no financial stake in. Because we believe in what you do.
If you believe in what we do, let us know. If you can use our Official T-Shirts as a local fundraiser, you'll be contributing to a global health & healing event that has been nothing less than a miracle.
Togther we have gained official recognition for our efforts from 18 US Governors, senates and mayors of various states and nations. We've gained recognition from the United Nations World Health Organization, the US Department of Heatlh & Human Services, Australian government agencies, and other health organizations worldwide.
We've gained media attention including Brazilian National Television, Dutch National Television, the BBC, CNN, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Omsk Russia's Weekly News, The South China Morning Post, etc. etc.
Imagine what we could do if schools worldwide that participate in our events, use our Organizing Kits, our Media Kits, our Medical Research, and benefit from our annual media work . . . all used our Official WTCQD T-SHIRTS as local fundraisers.
If our nearly 10 years of dedicated service to the Tai Chi and Qigong community doesn't prove our efforts are sincere . . . I'm not sure what will.
Again, we created the Official T-Shirts because we did not want to be a burden to participating groups and schools, but rather provide them a meaningful opportunity to raise local funds. And we wanted to keep all the WTCQD resources free.
Thank you all for your efforts to create local events that have been historic and profound. I hope our efforts on a national and international level have been helpful.
You can view or order Official WTCQD 2007 T-Shirts at:
http://www.smartaichi.com/WTCQDTshirtDispPg.html
[Please be sure and remove any blank spaces in the above URL when pasting it into your internet browser window.]
REMEMBER, YOU CAN STILL GET THE LOWER T-SHIRT RATES, BY ORDERING BY FEB. 13TH, prices raise slightly after that. [We get a better price bulk ordering all at once, which is why pre-11th orders are less.]
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