District Executives - [ September 2010 TI Marketing / PR Tips Newsletter ]

Fellow Toastmasters of District 60

Here is the table topics for you: Are you Successful?

The slogan for our incoming District Governor is "Experience Success", and what better theme could we have for this year, other than Experiencing ourselves the Power of Being REALLY Successful - and this starts with being successful in our own eyes!

Some people mistake Success for Luck, and usually refer to Successful people as just having Luck! But what is Luck after all? A great mind defined: "Luck = when Opportunity meets Preparation". Yes, indeed, Preparation is a prerequisite for Success!

How many of you remember with a smile your own Ice Breaker? How long is it since? Months, maybe years - did you become better by any means? If your answer is Yes, then it means You Can be more Successful. And yet Success is NOT a one time event - it is Successfully coming to every Toastmaster club meeting, Successfully volunteering for a role, Successfully planning and giving your speeches, Successfully motivating other people to join Toastmasters.

If you have success stories about yourselves or your club peers, about events in your life where Toastmasters education had a say, make a speech out of it! Or even better, make it an article and submit it to your Division 60 PRO, and with the help of our Newsletter and other media, we can make it an even bigger Success story! Act to be part of your club's executive team, and have business cards prepared when you visit another Toastmasters Club, or when you make new friends!

Social Media, Web 2.0 is the new way of expressing their feelings and beliefs for many people today, especially younger generation, but not exclusive! I hope you will join me in being a promoter of Toastmasters and especially District 60 in our LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter and other www interest groups for the next year.

I'll keep you posted with the news for this year, and I hope to hear soon from you! I will close with a quote from Mother Theresa : "If we want a message to be heard, it has got to be sent out - to keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."

Thanks, George Balana