'Novice to Wise'- when I first heard the theme, my curious mind experienced a blank out in the vicinity of information overload.
How do you travel on the journey from a novice to the wise?
Will elaborating the old principles be appropriate or should
I invent something new? Will my personal experience be meaningful?
Being the sole navigator of my ship of wisdom let me use my
experiences. A looking back at what I have done provides me numerous reasons for
continuously improve my life. Those reasons have evolved from traditional as
well as disruptive thinking. However, if I narrow it down those to one reason,
then it would be having a definite reason
to achieve success in life.
Yes, if your reasons are clear, you will reach somewhere
someday. In pursuit of your reasons of existence, you will acquire required
skills and abilities, invent your own tools and means. When all is said and
done, you will get that something in your life for which you were once prepared
to challenge everything.
Not to mention, if you talk about Toastmasters; Toastmasters
transforms you in various ways. If you have definite reasons to be here,
Toastmasters will positively aid you to get closer to your goals in life.
If you ask me about this - why do I feel I am getting wiser in
Toastmasters?
The answer is very simple. I have a definite reason to be in
Toastmasters, and that reason is- ‘One
day, I want to become one of the best communicators of our time’. This single
reason pushes me every second to stretch my oratory limits to attain a new
dimension in life.
Toastmasters has definite projects that help an individual evolve
to a better communicator and leader, especially, its competent communicator manuals.
These assist you in exploring different dimensions of communication. If I go
into my chapters of learning in Toastmasters, it has been a rewarding journey
so far. I keep learning by taking project speeches and leadership roles.
In my first project speech, I explored my entire life in 600
words, wherein, I particularly discussed my letter to my father as a teenager that
helped me become bold in life.
For my second project speech, I created a fictional character
whose ancestors experienced all the historical milestone events in the last
5000 years in India. This rally rounded me to master my speech organizational
skill and give a purpose to speech.
In my third project speech, I tried to find ‘what we talk
about when we talk about love’. That led to extraction of innumerable lovely
moments of my life.
For my fourth project speech, I talked about ‘my resume of
failure’ where I analyzed my failures better than my successes that made me
feel proud of my successful failures.
In my fifth project speech, I discussed our uncontrolled
population and satirical surgical strikes of fertility. Here, speech research
led me to the discovery of my own family tree which could be traced way back to
1860.
In my project speeches and about 20 leadership roles, I have
explored so much that they offer me authority to talk about the intriguing
theme of wisdom. Envision my conviction level after all 40 project speeches and
leadership projects to become a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM). A mere
imagination of my future in Toastmasters gives me invincible confidence.
Do you want to experience the same surety?
If Yes, then, find your reason to continue being in
Toastmasters!
More power to you all!
-Resonating Mithilesh
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