Lesson 1: Giving A Great Speech – Visualize Success

Are You Afraid To Give A Speech?  We’ll Help You Overcome The Fear!

Simply focus on what you’ve written your speech about and visualize success.

Believe you will deliver the best speech and the applause that will come once you finish.

What’s the worst thing that could happen?  You’re not going to die, you’ll be fine and a better person once you finish.

Another tip, if you are scared: GO FIRST!  Get it out of the way so you don’t sit there agonizing over it.

Feel ready to get in front of people and talk?  Come to our next Toastmaster’s meeting!  Tuesday @ 6:30PM at the La Jolla YMCA Firehouse.  Always free for guests and we won’t push you to try to join if you don’t want to.

See you this week!

Epic Meeting July 10th!

Hey We Have a Great Meeting TODAY and YOU SHOULD COME!

The topic is Wealth and is going to be lead by Kevin Espiritu.

The Question of the Day is: What does the word wealth mean to you?  What do you feel would make your life “wealthy”?

Prepared Speeches tonight will be given by:

  • Speaker 1: Gabriel Garzo
  • Speaker 2: Diana Hafilger
  • Speaker 3: Raquel Marques
It’s already looking like a great meeting and we hope to see you there!  The meeting is held at the La Jolla Firehouse YMCA at 6:30PM.

SPECIAL MEETING: June 19th Meeting at La Jolla Shores!!!

TOASTMASTERS HITS THE BEACH!

As you are all aware, we are having our meeting at La Jolla Shores next week. Bring your beach chairs. We will meet on the grass at first and set up around a bonfire. The meeting starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.

I have received two volunteers (Jess and Jay) who will bring fire wood and fire starters. I have also received two volunteers to bring refreshments (Kevin and Diana).

I am looking for a volunteer to be at the beach early and grab an open bonfire pit for us. Please e-mail me at evc [at] bsllp . com if you are willing to do this.

Thank you! It’s going to be a fun meeting!

Elizabeth Van Cliff
President, Toastmasters of La Jolla

Eliminate your public speaking fears in one meeting or no charge to you

Not everybody has the desire or ambition to better themselves like you do.

Just the fact that you looked up Toastmasters says a lot about your personality and drive to want to succeed in the world.  By harnessing your ability to be confident while speaking in front of a group, you will set yourself apart from your peers.

Don’t you want to feel confident in your skin?  To be able to stand in front of people with nothing but comfort and ease and deliver a mind blowing speech?

Come out to our meeting TONIGHT (June 5, 2012) at 6:30PM at the La Jolla Firehouse YMCA.  It’s free for members to come out and check out what our club is about.  If you don’t like it, you are not obligated to pay a cent.  But I know you will like it so might as well give us a shot.  Trust me, we don’t bite.

See you tonight!

SPECIAL MEETING TODAY!

Tonight’s Toastmaster’s theme is: COMPETITION.

Our Toastmaster of the evening is: Kevin Espiritu

Speakers: Vera Flame, Glenn Hirsh, and Hani Mussa.

If you are interested in Toastmasters come out tonight!  Sure to be tons of fun!

Location: La Jolla YMCA Firehouse.  Be there or be square.

A Flavor of Toastmasters Table Topics

Everyone experiences moments of impromptu speaking in their daily lives…

Have you ever been asked to give a quick recap of a meeting, prepare a 5 minute presentation in front of a group of guests, or just had to come up with a response on the spot?  These are not every day skills that everyone excels at.  These are skills that need practice and there is no better place to practice these skills than at a Toastmasters meeting.

Lets run through a typical Table Topics session:

  1. The Table Topics master states that Table Topics Word of the Day, which needs to be incorporated into the speech.
  2. The Table Topics master calls up a person to participate.
  3. The Table Topics master gives the participant either a question or a statement which they are to then give a 45sec to 1min 30sec impromptu speech.

Now that you understand a little bit about Table Topics.  Which person would you vote for the best Table Topics speech in the video above?  Put you answer in the comments below!

Until next time.