I just got back from Toastmasters. Writing speeches is getting easier–I’m starting to imagine how the delivery will sound while I’m writing. The spoken presentation is so different than the written!

My current goal for delivering speeches at Toastmasters is one a month. Today’s went well (and I won for best speaker of the day, yay!) I was a bit concerned last night seeing as I was on the phone with Linksys tech support until 11:30pm and our meeting begins at 6:30am.

The speech was entitled, “Tell Your Story!” The premise being that through hearing other people’s stories(modern day heroes, really) we are inspired and encouraged to accomplish our own dreams.

The speech was told in a storytelling format in which I related three stories I had heard over the course of last Tuesday.

• Megan Smith (daughter of a fellow Toastmaster) who made it all the way to Machu Picchu, despite being wheelchair bound.
• Tania Carlone who taught future educators in Russia’s far east through the Peace Corps.
• Reinette Senum (entry #90 on The Independent Eye has an audio track) who skied and canoed across Alaska.

Rock on, girls!