by excellence | Dec 15, 2020 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 December 2020 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
Are you Grateful and Resolute? As we near the end of a challenging year as Toastmasters I want to congratulate each and everyone of you for continuing investing in yourself and being flexible and agile as we moved to online meetings, which gave us new learnings and...
by excellence | Dec 15, 2020 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 December 2020 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
We have all heard the saying-in fact, it’s been driven into our minds of late: “These are unprecedented times.” One thing that has held strong this year is the positivity of the Toastmasters community, no matter how uncertain things may have been. The Toastmaster’s...
by excellence | Dec 15, 2020 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 December 2020 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
“Growth comes from being honest first with yourself in private. There is nothing more inspiring than an authentic person who does what they say. They inspire trust.”James Chiumia-Division Y Director If you’ve ever faced a significant crisis in your life...
by excellence | Dec 15, 2020 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 December 2020 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
2020 has been a year like no other and changed a lot of what was deemed normal. It found us finalizing preparations to attend the 2020 RoyalCon and the International Convention scheduled in Paris, we were familiarising ourselves with some basic French ‘Bonjour’,...
by excellence | Dec 15, 2020 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 December 2020 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts
Ever since my Toastmasters journey started over 5 years ago, I have had access to experienced members which accelerated my success in and outside of this organisation. However, I realized later in this journey that I was one of the few privileged. Not everyone had a...
by excellence | Dec 15, 2020 | ----#StriveForProgress, Achieving Excellence - 15 December 2020 edition, Achieving Excellence Posts, Mentor / Mentee
When I joined the Breakfast Club Toastmasters in Cape Town, South Africa in January 2020, I was so excited because I knew exactly why I had joined Toastmasters, but I soon realized that I was ignorance on fire when I attempted to prepare for speeches. I then was told...
