## Bring meeting to order
## Welcome and greet guests . Get them to speak few words about Toast masters
## A motivational talk
## Correlate it with Toast masters and repeat the history of TM and vTalk club
## Renew cycle – March 2026
## Introduce TMOD
Good evening everyone
Last Friday our 495th meeting was a linkers meet . We expected Linkers meet to continue but decided something else better for us and Today we are conducting our meeting with our own guests and Members
Let us bring this meticulous meeting #496 to order
My dear guests and members . There may be many occasions where you prepare for something , but something completely different happens. How do you react to that . Do you bite anyone’s head ?What kind of words runs through in your mind / mouth.
words of discouragement? words of disappointment ?
Let me tell you a real life incident where two boys , friends of neighbourhood were playing in the shade of banyan tree. The wide vast banyan tree often encourages them to swing here and there and one day they climbed to the top in great anxiety.
The moment they looked at the bottom- they felt , the whole world was shaking beneath them.they were more dizzy. Unfortunately both were in the branches that was far apart. Their hands could not help each other. Both started to shout for help.
Someone hearing this hailing help, came down and soon their parents also reached the spot. While the people around were preparing to help them get down , father of a child kept shouting in tensed voice . “Don’t leave the branches. If you leave you will fell down . Don’t leave the branches . Hold it . Don’t leave the branches. Don’t fear”
and in no time the child’s hands slipped in fear . Whereas at the other side of the tree , the other father raised his voice – Hold it tightly, The grip protects you . You are safe. we are here. Hold it properly . and the boy remained safe and he was rescued safe
As a child he understood the power of the word.
your mind doesn’t know to differentiate between Do’s and Don’ts. You mind just pays attention to the verb you use. Don’t leave – will prompt you to leave . Where as Hold will prompt you to hold it strong.
With this etched into his mind, he always had the positive self impression to progress, develop better and better in every phase of his life and so he became one of the eminent personalities of India . Can guess him ?
He is a man from Rameshwaram to Rashtrapathy Bhavan.
<Let the audience guess the Celebrity – He is our own Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam>
Yes. next time when life throws you at a critical situation, think of the words that gives you power, that keeps you active and agile, that builds your grit
This habit can be inculcated better when you join a community where people are more focused about intentional growth . One such fraternity is Toast masters – an international speaking fraternity with more than 16000 clubs world wide that focuses on Communication and leadership skills and many more . The words and actions of grit that is repeated in toast masters has made it a Cinch – counting its 101 year and more in future. In that big pool of clubs is our vTalk Toast master Club which have encouraged, empowered and enlightened many Great Leaders and communicators for more than 13 years.
Lets continue to use the opportunity every vTalk meeting offers us .