Bob Toastmastered us to a “Just Do It” theme – how does that resonate with you (besides Nike)?

18 attendees:  17 members / 1 guest (Faye with a lovely British accent who also took home Best Table Topics Speaker)2 Prepared Speeches /  6 Table Topics Speakers

Nadine reminded us to fill out which speech you are doing in the website to make a permanent record for education level achievements. 

Other Highlights:

–          WOD – “Obtuse” – yes, it’s an angle but also means “annoyingly insensitive”.  Here is its most famous use:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA8HT324wro–         

Nicole got creative with her Ice Breaker for a new Pathways – She used “Rain” as a theme to connect her travels to different areas.  Did you know it rains 42% of the days in Seattle? 

–          Nicole also used the beautiful phrase “Experiencing the magic of my friend’s 3 year old” in her speech…    AWESOME grammarian shout out for that!! 

–  Language can convey so much:  childhood innocence, the circle of life and the joy of creation is what I felt even though that is not what she said… BRAVO!

–          Ed encouraged us to save more for retirement and taught us about high dividend stocks:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_yield      

Griselda ran Table Topics like a polished professional advising us to use the exercise to develop our ability to “quickly organize” thoughts into an eloquent, formatted response.

–          Griselda also demonstrated great “control” of the meeting – whatever role you are in, when it’s your turn on the floor – OWN the role & CONTROL the meeting!

–          Kevin talked about how he “carried the fear” of heights through childhood – What are you carrying that needs to be put down?

–          Tom reminisced to days when he “wore a suit” and slipped in a pearl of wisdom of how some things in life “aren’t about the money”.

–          Sunny and Nadine were presented their certificates for Competent Communicator and Advanced Communicator Silver achievements – CONGRATULATIONS!!

–          Praveen uses a flip phone to avoid being a “Phubber”, but it turns out he is quite handy with a smartphone!