Liberty Village Toastmasters Toronto

By Clem D

As tonight’s Toastmaster, John Krissilas described the game of squash as a game that  encompasses: endurance, focus and the desire to win.  This is how we should envision preparing and presenting our speeches.

Karoline spoke on the act of “purging our closets” as a way of staying organized.  Karoline pointed out that when we look in our closet and say that we have nothing to wear, it is because our closets are full. What a life lesson.

Mohamed K. presented some lessons that he has learned throughout his life.

a) The battle is in the mind

b) Be honest

c) Become comfortable with taking risks

d) Opportunity is when luck is making plans

e) In school we learn the lessons; then we take the test.  In life we take the test and must learn from those lessons.

Tracey closed with a touching story about women in Africa who were able some how fight off the HIV virus and as such became test subjects for medical scientists looking for the cure.  The moral and ethical question is, if a cure is found, will these women be the first to receive it?

Karoline has been appointed our club’s new Secretary. Congrats.

By Clem D

John Krissilas is our evening’s Toastmaster and the theme is: “Squashed”

Our Speakers are: Karoline, Mohamed K, Tracey and Valarie

General Evaluator is: Clem D

Grammarian is Be

Word of the day is “panache”– flamboyant confidence of style or manner.

Quote of the Day.

By Clem D

Last night we inducted three new members into our club: Julia, Alex and Zaharah.  All the best as you learn to grow and succeed at Toastmasters.

Please welcome our new “Drill“ Sergeant at Arms… Felix.  Hope you are all ready for a workout !!

Clem was our Toastmaster and he encouraged us to accept being a “cracked pot”.  We are not born perfect. But we are all born with a purpose.

We listened to two great speakers: Yury and Alana.

Yury informed us that our club was “sick “and that we needed to take the necessary steps to remedy the situation.  (1) Set a goal. (2) Get a mentor. (3) Track our progress in real time.  These steps will help us achieve success as a group as well as personal self-development.

Alana added to this concept of self-development by  presenting to us ( 5 ) ways to design our lives.  These points are very key to helping us become a better and fulfilled person.

(1)    Know your personal comfort zone

(2)    Learn to network

(3)    Create a life plan

(4)    Purge the old; make room for the new

(5)    Accept the new chapter in your life

Our Table Topics winner was Sean.

FYI:

The Area Competition for the International Speaker’s Contest—Clem D will represent our club

Date:  Sunday March 2^nd, 2014

Time:  3:00pm – 5:00pm

Location:  TAISE International Institute

296 Parliament St, Toronto, ON M5A 3A4 (Dundas St. East & Parliament St.)

By Clem D

Clem D is our evening’s Toastmaster and the theme is: “It’s ok to be a cracked pot”

Our Speakers are: Yury & Valarie

General Evaluator is: Helen

We look forward to inducting some new members into our group and look forward to their growing success.

We also are conducting elections for the positions of Sergeant of Arms and the Secretary.  Come on out as we need your valued input.

 By Ted

Our International Speech contest was held last night and Tracey and Clem both represented themselves with passion. Each shared some very intriguing insights and touching anecdotes that really connected with us. It was a very close race but after all the judges had carefully scored each speech and the ballots were totalled up, in the end Clem won by a nose. Now Clem with move forward and represent out club at the Area 26 contest to be held at TIAE Toastmasters in a few weeks (see separate post for more details). On behalf of the entire contest team and all of our members I’d like to extend a hearty round of applause and a huge thank you to Tracey and Clem for their participation and for continuing to move towards their self development communication goals at Liberty Village

I also want to extend a great big thanks to the entire contest team. Without out you there would be no contest. Valerie stepped up as contest chair and did a great job. … Next I’d like to give a big shout out to all the members of my contest team. Starting with my judges, Sean, John, Michelle and Helen. …Next up are my timers, Chris and Jackie. You smiled, stepped up early and on contest day you did the job accurately and with out incident. … And of course next is my ballot counter Alana who helped me to ensure ballot accuracy and confirm the final results. It was great to have you on my contest team, thanks Alana!

As we close the book for another year on the International Speech contest I look forward to seeing the next group of new faces up at the podium in our fall contest, the Humorous and Table Topics contest. Stay tuned for more details.