Recap - Toastmasters January 23, 2021 Meeting

[Joethelia Mooney]

Hello Fellow Toastmasters,

I am happy to announce, David Brackus has been officially appointed by Toastmasters International to be the Club Coach!

The theme of Saturday’s meeting was “Self-Discipline”.  Toastmaster Linh Nguyen opened the meeting by telling the importance of having this type of discipline in life.  We listened to two prepared speeches, one by Linda Rudd and JohnRich Levine. Linda recapped on the Zoom Christmas party to fulfill her pathway elective, “Managing Projects Successfully”.  She spoke about what could have been done differently to allow for more in gift giving. JohnRich gave a humorous speech titled “Towel Around My Waist”.  He spoke about his real-life embarrassing situation and how he used it as an advantage to motivate others.  The table topics session was led by Helen Bryant.  She posed thought-provoking questions about super-spreader events; giving your last; and bucket list. The evaluators for the day where Debika Bhattacharya and Nishu Kurup.  In addition to the word of the day “Conjecture”, Debika used the word synthesizing while evaluating her speaker.  She used this term to define the mental operation that takes place when one is self-evaluating.  As always, it was a pleasure to have guest Cassie Brandley in attendance.

The meeting ended with a famous quote by Abraham Lincoln …” Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most”.  

The next meeting will be February 6, 2021 @ 1:30p.  See you then!

Joethelia