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Table Topic Master

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The Topicsmaster delivers the Table Topics ® portion of the meeting, which helps train members to quickly organize and express their thoughts in an impromptu setting. As Topicsmaster, the role: Select topics in advance of the meeting that allow speakers to offer opinions. On the last meeting  September 19 2020 I toke a role as Topicsmaster. I was so exciting to prepare for the role. The challenge that I experienced when having table topic session in online meeting especially when I was not in a good internet connection, I could not here all the question or lost some part of the words. For that reason I tried to prepare a slide which appeared for a few seconds before the speaker start their speech. I prepared all the question related to the word of the day which was using TRIUMPH. This question is not using the word TRIUMPH directly, but the speaker could easily using the word after they struggle in their life. I found that most participants also very excited during the table topic
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Learn from Failure

  Failure is delayed success. Failure is the foundation of success. Failure is not a disaster. Failure is the best teacher toward success. Those were series of slogans that appear when I type the word "failure" on the internet. Bill Gates quotes: “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure” Steve Jobs quotes: “Failure could be the best thing in our life“ Jack Ma quotes “Giving up is the greatest failure” Dahlan Iskan quotes “Everyone has quota of failure” So, how about you, Dear fellow toastmasters and distinguished guests, Have you ever experience d a failure? Great. That was the beginning of your success, but it depend s on how did you deal with that failure. Allow me to tell you about failure in my life and the lessons learned from them. The first failure: I did not pass the subject at the first half of my study at engineering faculty. I realized how hard was my father’s struggle for my opportunities
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Mentors in my life

    “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”  That is a quote from Oprah Winfrey. In Toastmaster A mentor is an experienced member who provides guidance and support to empower protégés to reach their goals. I have hope and dreams in my life, and I believe everyone has dreams in their life. Please raise your hand if you still have a dream .. Great !! thank you. It must be a wonderful dream in your mind. When I was a child, my grandfather used to ask me with the question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. Once I answered: “I want to be a farmer”, everyone laughed at me and my grandfather said: “ it is better to be a teacher”.   But when I was asked another time with the same question, I answered: “I want to be a teacher”, my grandfather said differently: “It’s better to be a doctor”, and so on, my grandfather always tried to tell different things than I could say. But one day he explained to me: “You can be a teacher, a doctor, a pil
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Readiness behind Uncertainty

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  More than three months we lived under fear, anxiety, and uncertainty because of the pandemic called COVID-19. Most people could not go out to do their work, instead, they have to stay at home and tried to keep their health in any way. This reality is really unbalanced life condition. And after the time we had faced uncertain situations we realized that we have to step out to continue our life. Our government planned to legalize a new normal era in the short time. Dear fellow Toastmasters and Distinguished Guests, How far is our readiness for the new normal stage? Before answering this question, allow me to share some information about the pandemic COVID-19 and current news about it. The topics are: What is a New Normal, Confirmed Case, Medical Research, People Readiness, and The Knowledge within our horizon.   Let start to see the slide. What is the New Normal? Chief of the Expert Team for the Acceleration of Covid-19 Handling, Wiku Adisasmita said: New normal is
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