My Journey in Toastmasters

  Can you imagine, if the world without any communication? It must be very quiet, right? There is no one who talks, no angry, laugh, or sing. In our daily lives, we communicate with family, neighbors, in offices, and in other social settings. There are so many different situations in different circumstances. Every person has a unique communication style , a way in which they interact and exchange information with others. Dear fellow Toastmasters and Distinguished Guests, In this speech, I would like to share about the adaptation of my communication style and how it affected my professional life. Many years ago, when I just started to work in the construction company, I found that so many leaders and managers in the company gained their success with angry leadership. Most employs tried to do their command first before another job. This is a kind of prioritization force, but consequently, there were so many works left behind and undone. When everything goes well at the e...

  Anyone here have ever   watched a tennis sport? And what comes to your mind when hearing about playing tennis? Health, freshness, hard sport or other things? Dear fellows Toastmasters and Distinguished Guests, Tennis is an exhilarating kind of sport because playing tennis keeps my body healthy, maintain positive thinking, and sportive. It also motivates me to adopt a healthy lifestyle. I have never be worried about what to do on the weekend or in my leisure time. Instead, I always think about how to sleep well at night, wake up early and freshly in the morning and get ready into the tennis court. A tennis racket always accompany my journey around the Indonesian cities and Islands. Tennis is not a kind of hard sport, because the player does not collide directly with the opponent either with the ball. We use racket as a tool to hit the ball. The force of the blow does not depend entirely on muscle power but by the swing power. The farther your swing, the s...

The truth is, if you don't know how to speak in public , you could be hurting your professional and personal life. I realized my fear of public speaking since I was in junior high school. That was after a long time illness in my life. One day, when I was tried to speak in the classroom , I felt my heartbeat so fast , my face flushed, and I lost my words in the middle of my spoken. After that time I tend to keep silent even though I knew something that was asked by the teacher in the class. The worst experienced when I was skipping school because I knew there would be a speaking practice in front of the class. That fear had never gets rid in my mind, when I was in senior high school, in the university, and in my work. Dear fellow Toastmasters and Distinguished Guests, Once in my professional life, I ever had superior judgments which said that I had a lack of personal appearance. I pondered for a long time thinking about the meaning of the words, and I realized that it was abo...

  Toastmasters clubs were spread worldwide. When I started to search for the nearest club in my place, I found the Jakarta Lions Toastmasters Club . Soon I tried to contact the club committee, I was asking about how to be a member, but they kindly invited me to the club meeting as a guest, and in a short time I registered as a member. That was the time I started my learning journey in Toastmasters. Jakarta Lions Toastmasters Club usually held meeting in : Suan Thai Restaurant Jalan Cideng Timur No. 59 Petojo Selatan Central Jakarta, 10160  But during the pandemic covid-19 the club meeting conducted online through zoom meeting which always fun and even more effective way.   I had been off for a few years from joining the club meeting because I was assigned at another place, but when the club decided to have online meeting due to pandemic covid-19, I was so excited to join the meeting and soon reinstated my membership.  Here is JLTC Exco's & Members & me ...