Liberty Village Toastmasters Toronto

Meeting Recap March 8 2017

This meeting was full of guests, speeches and fun! Our Toastmaster Mark Pilkington started off the meeting with a speech about perseverance and trying something new when hitting a roadblock.

Next we had Bina Bath give a memorable speech about having a positive attitude, and how this can help in so many ways, throughout one’s life and hardships.  She even had a great visual aid. Great job Bina!

The second speech of the evening was presented by Wes Vick, always a crowd pleaser! Wes gave us savvy business knowledge,  based on the success and failure of a few examples of recognizable companies. Don’t be like Enron!

Our last formal speech of the evening was delivered by future DTM and master speaker, James Tran. With his acting shoes on, James half-transformed into Alex Baldwin and gave an interpretation of a famous scene from the movie GlenGarry Glen Ross. James is always pushing himself and his creativity to the next level. Great work James!

And lastly, first time Table Topics Master, Jueun Kim led a great session!

See you next week! 

Just be yourself.  We hear this often but it is so contradicting when everyone else is telling we should be this and that.  First time toastmaster Bina spoke about being authentic.  It takes courage to keep it real but the pay off is huge.  Bina encouraged us to free ourselves and live the way we want to live and be who we want to be. Ultimately, it is our life we’re talking about here.

Thanks Bina for this advice.  Part of Toastmaster is help us develop ourselves and release our true voice, our inner selves.

We had 3 speakers, all working on different manuals.

Ice breaker Camila delivered a speech on persistent.  It is never too late as Camila demonstrated again and again.   To list a few, she picked up Chinese, dancing skills and learn to bike in her 20’s.   Now she’s tackling public speaking. It is never too late to do what you want to do.

Second speaker Jueun, delivered her project on speaking to inform.  We learned that addiction is likely genetic but expressed when activated by our environment. This means our parents gave us our genes, but we do have the power to turn it on or keep it off.  Knowing this, let’s surround ourselves with good friends like our toastmaster members (is there such thing as being addicted to public speaking? Well at least most people still live after speaking in public).

Bring portable memory to life.  James persuaded Maria to buy a SD for 19.99! It was definitely a steal with all the list of benefits James spoke about.  On top of it, it comes with an adapter. If you’re looking for more storage, ask James and see if he can get a deal at Hole Puncher.

We ended our meeting with a tabletopics session, which was held by our assistant VP of Education/secretary, Maria.   Congrats Alex for winning tabletopics with her magical pen.  All in all, we were just keeping it real, having fun while refining ourselves.

Next meeting is our Area contest!  4 – 5 clubs competing for the Area title.  Come see the top speakers and evaluators from each club.   Mark and John will be representing our club!

Most people do the same things over and over again, but expect different results. Toastmaster Bob reminded us that things will not change unless you do.  If you want things in your life to change, you need to change things in your life.

Why not start by complaining less?  Sarah learned that her complaining habit is changing her for the worst.  She is now aiming to complain less and finding herself much happier.   Who knew that it would be simple to be happy.  Simple, but maybe not so easy!  Try it for 30 days.  We dare you.  (Why can’t others complain less.. hey! 30 day starts now)

We can go a step further (or rather steps further) to love more and judge less.  Mireille gave us her part 2 of this life changing practice.  Focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses? Responding to hatred with love.  This is deep stuff here.  Just the thought of it is changing us already.
All this sounds difficult to do, or is it?  It is all in your imagination as James would say.  Make your imagination help you go towards your goal not away from it.

Thanks to our tabletopics master Camila, the theme change was incorporated in our tabletopics.  Congratulations our guest Andre for winning the table topics session!

Carrying out speakers’ advice can definitely change our lives and those around us.

And If Gandhi was here, he would be whispering to us, be the change you want to see in this world.  Are you ready to be that change?