First day as Toast Master

I remember a proverb - which talks of good salesmanship. A salmon fish lays thousand eggs but nobody comes to know about it whereas a hen lays one egg and everybody will come to know. It is the power of communication and advertisement. Since effective communication is key to the success in any phase of life, everyone should focus on improving the way we communicate.

Communication can be through writing, action or vocal. Here I am focusing on vocal communication. How effective we are in communicating to the outer world. Toastmasters club provides a very effective flatform in developing the communication skills by way of mentoring new members and supporting them to come out of their initial bottlenecks and improving on their skills.

It took 12 years for me to realise that I am not good in communicating I need to improve the technique by way of participating more in professional forums. I was initially shy to say that I am not good speaker. As such I took opportunity to join CA Toastmasters forum in Doha - Qatar to check upon my skills.

Its 22nd October the very birthday of this movement, which started in the year 1924 by Mr.Ralph Smedley. They conducted their initial meeting at California. Entire movement is for self development and breeding new leaders. This movement is on non-profit basis.

Though I had attended earlier two meetings I never stood up to take the challenge to speak up. On 22nd October this year the Table Topics Master called me up to pick a slip and talk about that. Though I was not ready, I took courage to go about it and picked the slip. Topic I got was - " Major disastors happened in past one month"

Though I am reading newspapers very regualarly it didnt striked me to talk anything. I was dumb for a moment. I spoke about anti corruption moment happening in India. By the time I was finished my time also up. So it was good to start. As a famous proverb goes on - Long journey starts with a small step. I hope this will be good healthy journey in the path of effective communication.