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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                    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 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 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                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...

It’s my style                  How did you miss this issue in production? Do you know how much loss it made to the client? How many of you didn't have this kind of tough boss in your life? Good evening fellow toastmasters and guests. By next month I will be completing 30 successful years of revolution around the sun. If the almighty wishes. Today I am doing "leadership style" project and I would like to share my experiences with the leaders whom I came across. It was in the year 2010 I was graduated from college and fortunately I got a job in the same year. Without any choice I was forced It was a search engine similar to google that I have to test and assure its quality. After the training I got a project and I was put into knowledge transition(KT). A senior team member gave me KT about  the domain and our manager. I observed that he didn't have good terms with the manager. With this you can guess how well the kno...

Happiness A warm good evening to fellow toastmasters and guests. I would to thank my mentor and the person who motivated me to join this club TM Ramanan during this milestone speech of completing the level-1 project. What makes you happy? How many of you here feel happiness is an internal and not external? For those who didn’t raise their hands, I try my best to convince you that happiness is internal with this Level-1 speech-4 on Research and presentation topic. This speech is an outcome of my experience by listening to podcasts, reading more about happiness online and offline and implementing those in my life. I have also chosen this topic since happiness is need of the hour . With my research I want to prove that happiness is   what comes internally to one with the help of two approaches one is using Science and another using philosophy. First to start with scientific approach. As I mentioned early, happiness is internal, this does not come like a magic. H...

Embrace the change             How many of you here enjoy being with small kids?             How many of you feel it very difficult to manage the mischievous kids?               Good evening fellow toastmasters and guests.               I am happily married for the past three years with a two-year-old kid. Kids when they are small, as the parent’s responsibility we must take care of them, feed them, help them in understanding the world around them. In my case, my kid being a two-year-old helped me in a great way. Do you want to know how? He helped me in preparing the script for my Pathways Level-1 speech-3. Now  you can guess that today’s speech is around my kid.               My son had a habit, whenever he goes to sleep, he will not sle...

It’s a Marathon           Due to my self-confidence, due to the passion I had towards achieving things, due to the fighting attitude I had from my childhood, I thought of doing it. A warm Good evening to my dear fellow toastmasters and guests. It was one fine morning I along with two of my friends woke up at 4.30 AM, got ready and started our journey towards IIT Madras. Don’t think we went for Engineering counselling. It was for participating in Dawn to Dusk Marathon. Seeing my physic don’t judge that I am couch potato. Sometimes I like to try something new. We went in bus from Chrompet and got down in Kotturpuram bus stop and started walking inside the IIT Madras campus. I was thrilled to enter the prestigious institution for the first time in my life. Our destination is to reach the sports ground inside the campus from where the Marathon starts. Most of you should be aware that IIT madras has two entrances. One is near the Kotturpuram(near Anna ...

Innocent soul It was one fine evening, 6 people surrounded me. Everyone started to shoot questions at me. One said, “Don’t you know this basic thing”. Another one said “What Hadi I never expected this from you” another one said, “How can you ask this kind of question?”. I was surprised, embarrassed, felt a bit sorry at that moment. Good afternoon fellow toastmasters and guests. I am here to share an incident in my life that taught me some good lessons. It was my second year of my career right from college. On a Sunday morning our project team of 11 members headed our journey in a tempo traveler to Pondicherry. To attend our friend’s marriage. In our gang there were people who never turn to any of the functions or marriages. They came to this friend’s marriage. You ask me the reason, I will not tell. We reached the marriage hall, attended the marriage, had a good biriyani. He was a Muslim friend. Story starts here. We departed from the marriage hall heading towards Ch...