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Book reading habit - A foundation for an amazing life

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket" - Chinese proverb If you have ever tasted the sweetness of book reading, you will never stop it. The moment we say we need to read books to reach success in life, it doesn't mean that we can read any book that we see. We should choose the books that are relevant to our field, read it and implement the learnings in our life. It will create miracles in our life. Jim Rohn says "Reading is essential to those who seek to rise above the ordinary". Why should we inculcate book reading habit? 1. Research says the book reading habit increases our life's expectancy. We need to develop the habit of finding a silent place and reading daily for 5 minutes with focus, to start with. We need to make the book reading our best entertainment in our life. We should enjoy it. 2. Research says that the book reading habit reduces our stress more than listening to music or walking. ...

Mom-Wife-Balance - Humorous speech

Mom-Wife-Balance Are you questioning me for correcting the mistake done by your wife? Ha! From when this habit started? My mom screamed at me. I was speechless. Good evening fellow toastmasters and my dear guests. The entire universe right from the galaxies, stars in the space to the electrons in the atoms are balanced to maintain a harmony. People say our lives will be in peace and harmony if we practice the work-life balance principle. I am here to tell you a more important balance for the life that is mom-wife balance. It is this balance that will make you or break you. To achieve this, I would like to share with you two important techniques which I experienced in my life. How many of you watched the movie Bahubali-2 ? For those who ...

Return on Investment – Story telling

Return on Investment The yield was less that year. The landlord questioned his sons what went wrong similar to how my scrum master use to ask in the retro. The sons were clueless. Good evening fellow Toastmasters, Madam Toastmasters and guests. Once there lived a wealthy landlord in a village. He had two sons and large acres of land surrounded by the lands of small farmers. Every year he used to cultivate corn in his fields and other farmers used to do the same. Being a wealthy and as well as good hearted person, the landlord used to sell good quality seeds at an affordable rate to the farmers nearby his fields. As the seeds were good the small farmers had a good yield every year and they are all grateful to the landlord. It was one particular ye...

Success - Proposal

Success Good evening fellow Toastmasters, Madam Toastmasters and guest. On hearing the word proposal what comes to your mind? Marriage proposal, Business proposal, Proposal to any problem that you have. When you search in google the meaning for proposal, you get two meanings, one is a formal plan or suggestion to address a problem and the other one is straightforward a offer for marriage . For the next 5-7 minutes I am going to touch on both the things as part of my project. Everyone of us want to lead a successful life but success will not come to us easily. We need strive and struggle to attain success. I am here with a proposal to lead a successful life with two simple, quite familiar yet powerful techniques to follow. It was a in the year 2010 I got my first job and placed in an MNC as a software engineer. I had ...

Give back what you take - Mentoring

Give back what you take She asked me to close my eyes, take a deep breath and think. I slowly opened my eyes and see what she is doing. She shouted at me and told “Just close your eyes and think” Good evening fellow Toastmasters, Madam toastmasters and guests. I am here to give my speech on Mentoring. The experience that I had from my mentors and from my mentees. As a fresher in the year 2011 I got into a project of a 8 members team. I was assigned a mentor to receive KT. This guy is a very knowledgeable but rude. Initially I thought he was rude only with me but later I came to know that this is the case with girls and others as well. I felt bit relieved and still wanted to know why this behavior. Later I came to know that he did his EEE. At that time I recalled my experiences with the EEE professors in the college. He was just a kid in front of them. You know how the Knowledge transition sessi...

Gynophobia - Connect With Your Audience

Gynophobia How many of you know the meaning of the term Gynophobia? Dear evaluator, please make a note. My first part of the speech objective is met. An unfamiliar topic to the audience. Good evening fellow toastmasters and guests. I would like to thank my mentor and the person who introduced me to this club TM Ramanan at this moment. Gynophobia – The term refers to abnormal fear of Women. If you ask me, do you have this disorder? I will say I had a milder version of gynophobia previously. For the next 5 minutes let’s see how I got this disorder, how did I overcome it and how to prevent it. Let’s first see how I got this disorder. It was in the year 1993 I studied Kinder Garten in my native. That was the only class I studied co-education in my entire school life. Later for the past 12 years I studied in boys’ school where there is no cha...