Do you know about yourself ???

<Presiding officer introduces the Toast master of the day> <1.5 hour meeting with 2 speakers in Prepared speech segment>

Well that was an incredible introduction.
Our president gave a very good note , an intro about our club.
He imparted knowledge about Toast masters international, vour club – vTalk Toast masters.
Now tell me How far has our vTalk endured the legacy

How far have come up in years ?
<Let the audience respond based on what they listened>
Good 13 years

Questions are the secret ingredients that spice up any discussion.
That’s how today’s theme is also a question.
Do you know about yourself ?

A deep, thought provoking, insightful , introspective question

With today’s cutting edge technologies and life changing dynamics, what would you do when you are posed with a question ?
<Let the audience engage>

Exactly everyone have access to the world wide web and we are fond of reaching out the Gen AI, search engines.I tried asking the question to two different  Gen AI and got two different responses !

But they could not define us rightly.
Its our introspection.
And that’s not a one step process and its a series of small steps to discover the You and know about yourself

Are you all geared up to introspect ?
<Let the audience respond with guestures or verbally>
Ok. Here goes the step 1

1. Lets go one by one .I am sure that everyone of us here has a minimum of 25 years in this world as of now. So we should know something about us. Lets bring out that , lets voice out that , lets hear that loud

Lets go one by one. where everyone will describe you in 2/3 words or adjectives that you know about yourself ? Ready?
<Go for a round of responses hearing from every person>

So at present you know a little about yourself. Will this going to be constant or stagnant for the rest of the life you live on this earth ?
Never !
So knowing about yourself is not a one step process.
Its a journey to be taken at every different season, at every phase of life to rediscover you and invent the new

Before delving deep into the journey of knowing about yourself ,
lets know how every toast master meeting is organised

Every Toast master meeting has 3 sections 

1. Prepared speeches – Where Speakers prepare their speeches before hand and Perform
   2. Table Topics speeches – Where our guest and everyone can volunteer to speak
   3. Evaluation and Feedback – To identify our strength and areas of improvement

For this evaluation and feedback we have

<GE introduction goes here>
<GE comes on stage introduces his role * TAG team, TAG team details their roles>

Thank You GE and TAG team players for giving crystal clear view of your roles.
Lets get started with out first segment – Prepared speeches.
Our first speaker is

<Speaker introduction goes here>
Speaker is evaluated by a toast master <Evaluator introduction goes here>
I welcome on stage <Name of Evaluator 1> to read out the objectives of the speech
<Evaluator reads the objectives>
Thank You <Name of Evaluator>

I welcome on stage our first speaker
< Name of Speaker 1> <Topic> <Topic>< Name of Speaker 1>
<Speaker 1 delivers the speech>
<Few thoughts on the speakers view and words of appreciation goes here>

Our second speaker is

<Speaker introduction goes here>
Speaker is evaluated by a toast master <Evaluator introduction goes here>
I welcome on stage <Name of Evaluator 1> to read out the objectives of the speech
<Evaluator reads the objectives>
Thank You <Name of Evaluator>

I welcome on stage our second speaker
< Name of Speaker 2> <Topic> <Topic>< Name of Speaker 1>
<Speaker 1 delivers the speech>
<Few thoughts on the speakers view and words of appreciation goes here>

#second segment

At the first segment we did use one or two adjectives to describe what we know about our self.
Knowing about yourself , doesn’t only mean knowing about your good and bad. The profound answer is knowing about your eternal goal,  your purpose on this planet.

But often when we are in the step of knowing about our self  there comes many distractions, which limit us from going forward. What would be those limitations ?

Now again lets reflect whats our limitations? whats really holding back from moving forward, what is that one stopping factor of yours . Give it a food for your thought for a while

And lets get into the second segment.
We have our Table topic master <TTM intro goes here >
<Table topic master elucidates the role and conducts Table topics>
Thank you Table topics master <name> for those insightful questions

Getting back,
If we deeply reflect on our limitation factor,  it will boil down to “unwillingness to change”, we are not willing to adapt, we keep longing for what we dont have and that’s the distraction , that’s the limiting factor in finding out our purpose , aligning our actions with our purpose

How to fix that ???

Before figuring out that . Lets figure out how we fared at the meeting by listening to our General Evaluator and TAG team

I welcome back the General Evaluator to the dais to evaluate the entire meeting.
** General Evaluator and TAG team reports their observation, shares constructive feedback and areas of improvement **
Thank you General Evaluator and TAG team

Now lets figure out how to fix the limitation that is  holding us back
This book  “You can heal your life ” (I am showing the book)  has one awesome principle .
The  principle involves an object which everyone of us has. That’s a mandatory / indispensable object in every one’s life. But we have never grasped the real magnitude of it, the impact that it can create in our life ?

Guess that obj ?
<Lets the audience engage>

Itssss – The Mirror.
Yes , get on to the mirror
Tell to you “I am willing to change , whatever changes I face – they are all my stepping stone.
Tell to you “Everything happens in the divine right order”
Tell to you “All good things come to me”
Tell to you ” I am putting down my limitations , I am willing to change”

This would help you to move towards finding the right purpose , revisit the purpose and understand if you are really clinging on to the right purpose and make you move forward with ease

So next time you see the mirror will you just groom your outer self only ? what would you say ?
and that’s how we got to know about our self , our purpose and our path forward 🙂

And when we practice this, We understand, We get to know about our self , embrace the right attitude and soar like an Eagle .

With this I would like to hand over to the presiding officer for closing remarks
Thank you