Toastmasters Meeting? Yes, please.
I liked to define myself as somewhere between an extrovert and an introvert. I would open up to people I was comfortable with, however, to go and mingle with a diverse group always gave me chills. Joining Laxmi Bank Toastmasters Club turned out to be a much-needed opening for me. My sole goal was to […]
Lessons from Toastmasters Meetings
I always believed public speaking wasn’t my cup of tea. While the fear of public speaking tainted my confidence, I met people who enjoyed it without any fear, anxiety, or alarm. I always wondered how they managed it. Before joining Toastmasters, I did not participate in public speaking platforms apart from classroom presentations. However, I […]
The Reason I Come Back To Toastmasters Every Week
Never had I imagined I would be able to come out of my shell. Toastmasters gave me a platform not only to enhance my communication, networking and leadership skills but also helped me figure out that I had the potential in me to make friends and connect with people. When one of my friends at […]
An introvert finds a stage
When I first heard about Toastmasters, it was through my father who adoringly mispronounced it as “Ted-masters”. He had been to one of the meetings and could not stop raving about the environment and how well-spoken the people were. I took all of this with a grain of salt, especially when I also learned that […]
Patience Towards A New Direction
Have you ever witnessed a character in a movie or a book who was the embodiment of a stereotypical nerd? What was the character like? Sweet yet shy, someone who was surrounded more by books and less by people? Well, I am the real-life version of all those nerds. And for me, my greatest fear […]
Embark on a journey
All of the speaking opportunities I had in my schooling life, I always had reasons to abstain from them due to my fear of facing the crowd. I remember how my teachers and especially my principal of the school encouraged me to grasp those opportunities, but the inner child had a big resounding “NO”. I […]
A Traveling Toastmasters’ Tale
It has just been one and a half years that I have joined a Toastmasters club. Though I had known and heard about it from many of my friends who are Toastmasters, I never took the initiative. A long-time back, a veteran Toastmaster once told me, “Just attend one meeting and you will know what […]
Stepping Out of My Bubble
Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving and progressing. I can still recall a day from grade 10 when I could not utter a single word in front of the entire class when the teacher asked me to present on a given topic. I could […]
This is a Start
My niece’s random paintings have been motivating me for months now. Her color-stained hands, dirty palette with inter-mixed colors and a montage of random colors splashed on the white sheet of paper, look beautiful to me. She is not a virtuoso at her work, but she embellishes her zeal on the tip of her brush […]
It grows into you
I’ve been a member of Everest Toastmasters Club for about a decade now and I have immensely benefited from the Toastmasters International program. When I started my career as a water supply engineer in 1988, I did not have the resources to learn the subtle art of communicating effectively and was simply ignorant of Toastmasters […]