Money Mastery-KL Toastmasters Club (#8141): 09.06.2020 Meeting # 462- If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me.

Word of the day: Clarity

Message from Club President, KL Loh, ATMG

“Are you taking total responsibility for your own success? Everyone who truly succeeds develops the attitude of a winner and becomes a leader. A positive attitude prepares you to success. How positive is yours? Are you excited about what you’re doing and where you’re going? What’s your attitude toward your career or business? How does stress affect your attitude? Total success includes maintaining a healthy lifestyle—a sound mind and body are key. Do you exercise and eat a balanced diet? Decision, commitment, dedication, conviction, and persistence are essential traits of a winner and leader. Are you focused on you dream and doing whatever it takes to achieve it? Do you make maximum use of your time? Some say luck has an impact on your ability to lead and succeed. Can that be true? Many say enthusiasm is key. But how enthusiastic are you? If It Is To Be, It’s Up To Me (Revised) shows you how to lead by setting goals and following your dream. You’ll learn the art of leading others for positive accomplishment and the essentials of HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP. Tom Smith took his insurance agency from the bottom to number two in the nation. Along the way he suffered a stress-induced heart attack that almost killed him, but grew through it, regained his health, balanced his life, and ended up as a top leader in a highly competitive industry. He and his wife live in New Jersey. Read this book and you’ll know that…If it is to be, it’s up to me!”

At 7:16 pm, the Assistant Sergeant-At Arms Manish Jha, IP1 was called the meeting to order. He reminded members and guests of the house rules of the club before invited members of the Toastmasters to recite Toastmasters’ promise.

ASAA Manish Jha, IP1 passed his control to Club Acting President Rey Thean, PM1 for her president’s address. She welcomed our members, guests and General Evaluator Gladys Choo, MS3. She gave a motivated and inspiring speech revolving “If it is to be, it is Up to Me”. Grammarian Vijaykumar, CC was invited to share with us word of the day “Clarity”. Then, she invited members and guests to have self-introduction and encouraged them to use the theme of the day and word of the day within the time limitation of 45 seconds for each one of us.

Wendy Sim, CC, the Toastmaster of the Evening (TME) took over the control from the Acting President with her welcome note. She displayed her ebullient and enthusiasm by sharing with us the history of Toastmasters as well as our club history. She introduced the role players (technical team) and invited them to share with us their roles for the meeting in the following sequence:

Ah-Counter – Abdulrahman, PM2

Grammarian – Vijaykumar, CC

Timer – EK Yeo, CC, CL

General Evaluator (GE) – Gladys Choo, MS3

After that, it was our club Table Topics® session. Hai Liang was the Table Topics® Master for the first time to carry out this session. Table Topics is an impromptu speech, you can speak within the topic or out of the topic as long as your speech with opening, body and conclusion.

The participants of table topics were:-

1) Aizat – "Talent is the gift, but character is a choice"

2) Hasbul – "The quality of life is more important than life itself."

3) Vinayak – "Control your emotions or be consumed by them."

4) Manish – "If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

5) Wendy Sim – "Strength comes from an indomitable will."

All the Table Topics® speakers came to the stage with confidence and delivered their speeches fluently without any hesitation, most importantly within the time limit allocated.

The next session were prepared speech session. We had 3 speakers who were from different background and their topics were informative, motivated and interesting.

Speaker	Evaluator	Summary
Julia Leong, ACG, ALB	CP Lau, DTM	A change in time save lives She shared with us the message that if you stay in comfort zone lead it to down fall. Fear live in danger will take action to mitigate changes.
Mathew Philippose, EC1	Manish Jha, IP1	Dreaming to dream He shared with us the difference between mentor & coach whereas the former is for the long term and the later is for the short term guidance.
Salem Saleh, IP3	Hj. Hashim, DTM	Building A Social Media Presence He quoted if your business is not online, you will be out of business soon.

Abdulrahman, PM2 has conducted a 5 minutes induction of new members – Chloe and Salem Saleh, IP3. It was well applauded by the members for their Toastmasters journey.

The meeting had a 5-minute break before starting the speech evaluation session. The session was led by GE Gladys Choo, MS3. Without further delay, she invited her panel of role players to have their report.

Table Topics® Evaluator, Mathew Philippose, EC1, suggested some areas of improvement for the speakers:

A) Speech structure- A good speech must contain an opening, body and conclusion
B) Volume control- be aware of the note and pitch when speaking

Then followed by Speech Evaluation by Evaluator CP Lau, DTM, Manish Jha, IP1 and Hj. Hashim, DTM for their constructive feedback and recommendation to each of the speaker.

The technical reports were presented by Ah Counter Abdulrahman, PM2, Grammarian Vijaykumar, CC and Timer EK Yeo, CC, CL

Finally General Evaluator Gladys Choo, ABL, MS3 sum up the conduct of the meeting and her recommendation for our consideration.

Acting Club President Rey Thean, PM1, gave her closing speech and presented online certificate to winner of the Table Topics - Manish Jha, IP1. She also acknowledged the newly joined member Hai Liang who was first time took up the role as Table Topics Master in the meeting. She appreciated GE Gladys Choo, MS3 who spent her valuable time to help the club by giving her feedback and constructive recommendation.

The meeting adjourn at 9:45 pm with Group photo via Zoom.