Thursday, June 3, 2010

Wanna calm the fluttering butterflies in your stomach??

Yessss!! There is a way out!! Very Simple...!! When you are forced to fight with the fluttering butterflies often, U get used to it :) Table topic session of the toast masters meeting is specially designed to push you towards achieving it !!
Today I had the chance to pull people out to speak on exciting topics :)) yeah...  I was the table topic master of the day...!!
How do you feel when some one asks you to express your views on "Time Management" when you are really late for the event??
Doesn't it make you feel like running out of the place.... ;) But U cant ;-)
Like every other Thursday, I was late for TM meeting.. and theme of the day was "Time Management". I, being table topic master, was asked to express my opinion on Time Management. ouchhhhh!! being 15 min. late, I really don't have any moral rights to speak on this :(( hmmmm... I need to get out of my IST(Indian Stretchable Time)...
Coming on to Today's experience, feel like I performed this role better than last time. I found myself much comfortable on the podium today!!
Had I done much research on topics......

Here goes the topic list:
1) Life is just a series of moments.If you miss the moments,you miss your life.
2) You Can’t Predict the Future, But You Can Create It
3) If You Keep Doing What Worked in the Past You’re bound to Fail
4) Approach Problems with Your Ignorance—Not Your Experience
5) The Objective of Marketing Is to Make Selling Unnecessary
6) Management is a social function and has mostly to do with people, not things and procedures
7) Every organizational unit is a direct reflection of the leadership it's been given
8) With 3G spectrum auctions, Govt of India raised 16k crores Rs. But it created negative impact on the credit metrics of telcom operators.
Could you provide your views on this...
9) Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things
10) Ideation without execution is nothing more than delusion
11) When you really want to do something the whole universe conspires to help you in achieving it!!
12) Recently Google Pulled out from china citing security threats as the main reason. Do you think this is the right business decision for a company like google?

Table Topics

Current affairs/Social issues
  • If you have the privilege to transform the education system in India, How would you want the system to be?
  • Recently, the U.S. Senate passed the health care bill with the vision to provide good healthcare to everyone. Could you express your ideas on how we can ensure quality healthcare to every Citizen of our nation.
  • Do you think Indian Rupees /China’s Yaun can replace US $ as world’s reserve currency?
  • Do you think stricter policies imposed by government can reduce pollution and make great contribution to the green earth mission?
  • Your views on whether software patents should be awarded?
  • Do you think quality healthcare should be made as fundamental right of every citizen?

Quotes
  • "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin
  • Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant -" -Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Who we are is the result of desires backed by actions
  • "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes." -Peter Drucker
  • "It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." -Francis Bacon
  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.
  • Happiness is not what you get! It is what you choose to feel.
  • Ideation without execution is nothing more than delusion
  • Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
  • Desire is the turning point of all achievements – Napoleon Hill
  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
  • Action creates clarity
  • Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change
  • NO MAN HAS A CHANCE TO ENJOY PERMANENT SUCCESS UNTIL HE BEGINS TO LOOK IN A MIRROR FOR THE REAL CAUSE OF ALL HIS MISTAKES