Quotable quotes, Fixing Healthcare and Lady in Pink - a good trifecta at Toastmasters!

Dear Members, Guests and Friends,

 

TM Aleta started us with inspirational quotes.  We soon realized that….

 

• TM Jim G. experienced a reverse career: he owned a restaurant but dreamed of being a waiter.  He had to fake it till he could make it – and those hefty tips came in handy too!
• I, Ana, usually practice “do what I’ve always done and I’ll get what I always got” until I get a bloody forehead from crashing against the same wall.
• TM Jim D. fondly reminisced about driving around Florida in his vintage Mustang convertible with the top down.  Now he’s into Harleys, so his whole body rides al fresco.
• TM Marie likes to sprinkle herself with pixie dust and head for an evening full of wonder and magic at the Disney channel.
• TM Lorena so enjoys those moments that take her breath away – a beautiful sunrise, a lovely sunset, the flowers in the garden, the joy of being alive!
• Soon-to-be EarlyBird TM Randolph fully concurs that the secret of getting ahead is to get started.  As the saying goes, “the journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step”
• DTM Mary Helen agrees that it’s better to keep your mouth shut and be taken for a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.  She’s lost a lot of friends for not practicing this.
• DTM Kip thinks the 20% left of the 80% that happens in a successful life is showing up at your Toastmasters meeting, even from a moving car and with no phone holder.
• TM Pam is married to someone from the (annoying) school of thought of “ask, search, knock” to find lost keys.  Note from author:  I, for one, am married to one of those too ….   She Won Best Table Topics Award.

 

And then came the prepared speeches….

 

• TM Jeff managed to fix our broken healthcare system in 5 to 7 minutes.  We unanimously vote to make him Secretary of Health and Human Resources ipso facto and be done with it.   He Won Best Speaker Award.
• I, Ana, managed to win the award for most egregious overuse of the word pink in a single speech in the history of Toastmasters International.

 

As for evaluations….

 

• TM Tom praised TM Jeff for his well-organized, vitally clear as mud speech and compared it to the banquets he, Tom, usually eats at 7Eleven.  He Won Best Evaluator Award.
• DTM Mary Helen, a faithful Mary Kay fan, liked the ironic tone of my speech and most importantly complimented my pink blouse.

 

TM Jose, first timer as Toastmaster of the Day, kept the meeting running smoothly and flawlessly.

 

The Word of the Day was

 

GRATITUDE, noun

 

The act of being humbly grateful.   The opposite of arrogantly greatful….

 

Ex.  Gratitude is a good deterrent for self-pity.

 

See you next week!

 

Ana I.

Recap Writer