Sheridan Park Toastmasters Club 628: April 2006

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Goals and Achievements

Hello Fellow Toastmasters,

The end of our year is rapidly approaching, believe it or not.

With this in mind, it is time for you to think about what goals you want to achieve in our club by the end of June.

If you want to finish your CTM OR CL ( Educational ) ,

I STRONGLY advise that you sign up for your speeches NOW.

Please, sign up ONLY if you fully intend on keeping your schedule.

I have just signed up for the last of my own ATM Bronze speeches so that my own target is completed by the end of this Toastmaster Year.

Remember, you may also visit other clubs and give speeches, if they can accomodate you. Give me a call if you need more info about this.

Typically, our meeting has 3 speeches, however, we can accomodate up to 5 per meeting if we cut short our table topics and business sessions.

You are the reason that our club exists.

Let us help YOU ensure that you achieve your goals for 2006.

If you need speech details, please check out Danny's Blog.

If you are not sure how many speeches you have accomplished, please contact Simona.

In my Mailbox today I received the Sheridan Park Update

We need 9 Points to achieve the Distinguished Club award

To Date We have 7 !!!! We are already a ` Select` Club

We have :

2 CTM's ( Competent Toastmasters )

2 Additional CTM's

1 CL ( Competent Leader )

We have 13 new members !!

We trained 11 Officers !!

We have submitted all reports on time !

That totals 7 points........We are already a Select Distinguished Club

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We NEED

1 ATM ( Advanced Toastmaster ) ..............I am shooting for this.

1 Additional ATM ..................................We need this ...who is close ?

1 Additional CL ( Competant Leader ) Who can do this?

Who can step up to help us achieve our goals ?

Clive Milton
President, Sheridan Park Toastmasters

Saturday, April 29, 2006

New Members Induction in the meeting of April 26, 2006

Pledge by new members:

I name, in the presence of my fellow members of the Sheridan Park Toastmasters Club, make this firm obligation

to attend meetings regularly and prepare fully for each assignment
to apply myself to the program outlined in the Toastmaster Manual
to participate actively in Club activities
to evaluate others in a positive, constructive manner
to build open friendly relationships with my fellow members
and to bring new members into the Club so that they also can gain the benefits of Toastmasters

Club members pledge to new members:

We the members of Sheridan Park Toastmasters Club pledge

to support you in your quest for self-development
to provide you with positive, helpful evaluations
to maintaina friendly and supportive athmosfere
to give you the opportunities to help others
and to make your Toastemasters membership a rewarding and fulfilling experience.

New members: Bruce, Benjamin, Agota, Raj, Niv, Candy, Elizabeth.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Aspirin – relief from pain by George Torok

We take aspirin or equivalent when it hurts. We seek a solution when the pain or threat of more pain is enough to move us to change. Have you noticed that the changes you make in your life are more often the result of pain than anything else?

Consider these possible pain-change combinations:

Hate the boss – find a new job.
Get fired – become an entrepreneur
Heart attack – change diet, start exercising
Embarrassing presentation – learn to be a better speaker
Lost sale – review selling skills
Broken relationship – learn how to maintain relationships
House break-in – arrange alarm service

Change happens around us every day. The change that we pay attention to is the change that causes us direct pain. Then we change.

Floods on the other side of the world inspire minimal change. But when your next-door neighbor gets robbed, or we do – then we change quickly. When our hydro grid fails a bunch of us buys flashlights and generators – because we felt the pain and fear of deprivation.

Why is that important to you?
If you want people to buy – you must identify their pain – and touch that nerve.

Then offer your aspirin.

George Torok
http://www.powermarketing.ca/

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Attention! - Meeting room change for April 12th

IMPORTANT FOR TOMORROW

WED APRIL 12th

Good Evening Fellow Toastmasters

We have a meeting room change for tomorrow night.

South Common Community Centre

2233 South Millway

` Seniors Room `

L5L 3H7

7:00 PM

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Awards Area 22 Evaluation & Int'l Speech Contest

International Speech Contest

Indy Juneja - "Take That Step" - Trillium Toastmasters Club
Rocco Bellusci - "Right Here! Right Now!" - Trillium Toastmasters Club
Safar Ali - "When Oportunity Knocks" - Lakeview Toastmasters Club

Evaluation Contest

Ash Gulati - Trillium Toastmasters Club
Frank Waldner - Trillium Toastmasters Club
Safar Ali - Lakeview Toastmasters Club

Contestants International Speech Contest

Contestants Evaluation Contest

Division Q Contest - April 21st - 7:00 pm
HJA Brown Education Centre

District 60 Contest - May 5th - 7th Weekend
Delta Meadowvale

Here are a few quotes of inspiration and some food for thought about communication and life ... Listen Up!

" More important than IQ, more potent than emotional intelligence, stronger than physical ability is the power to communicate clearly and influentially. The power to use your voice, your body, your words with precision and impact to GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT." http://www.holographicuniversity.com/

“The brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you are born and never stops until you get up to speak in public.” – Mark Twain

"€œA talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there." - Dale Carnegie

"In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen." - Thierry Henry

"Successful people are not necessary smarter than anyone else, they are simply more effective."

Ross Mackay

"Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do." - Jim Rohn

"The effectiveness of any presentation depends greatly upon our confidence in the quality and appropriateness of that presentation's content." - Tony Jeary

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carl. W. Buechner

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory." - Arthur Ashe

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." - Epictetus

"The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something to say." - Michael P. Hart

"Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating". - Stephen R. Covey

"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few." - Pythagoras

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." - Andre Gide

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." - Dale Carnegie

"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway

"One kind word can warm three winter months." - Japanese Proverb

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Eddie Robins

"The secret of influencing people lies not so much in being a good talker as in being a good listener. Most people, in trying to win others to their way of thinking, do too much talking. Let the other people talk themselves out. They know more about their business than you do. So ask them questions. Let them tell you a few things." - Dale Carnegie

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." - Mary Kay Ash

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D. H. Lawrence

"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave." - Dale Carnegie

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know! - Jim Rohn?

"If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward." - Greg Maddox

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." - Charles Schwab

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most." - Emily Dickinson

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth." - Julie Andrews

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act." - Dr. Maxwell Maltz

â€œNo one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.â€â€” Charles Kendall Adams

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Eddie Robinson

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese proverb

"Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable." - Claude Taylor

"People will be persuaded more by the depth of your conviction than the height of your logic; more by your enthusiasm than any proof you can offer." - David Peoples

"YOU are the BIGGEST UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION! Many presentation tools can support your message, however your ability to connect with an audience with powerful presence, presentation and communication skills are the key to your success! - Michelle Ray

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of." - Jim Beggs

"A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lessor speakers fail to." - Somers White

"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet." - Robert Orben

"Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident." - Dale Carnegie

"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor." - Eric Hoffer

"Communication is a continual balancing

Sheridan Park Toastmasters Club 628