Sunday, August 27, 2017

313th Meeting: Road Trip To A Happy Life




Filcom had yet another meaningful and interactive meeting (313th) led by the Toastmaster of the Evening, Joseph. With the theme, Road Trip To A Happy Life, the TMOE came prepared with a powerpoint presentation that showed the roadmap and cleverly related the 3 parts of the meeting to his 3 stops: Mind, Body & Soul. His Tour Guides were Grammarian Jessie, Timer Arun Paul & Ah Counter Philip.

Coming to the first stop, Mind, Joseph presented a house that has 3 rooms that must be unlocked to be happy: Who are You? What are your guiding principles in life? What are your holistic daily things to do? And what was amazing was Joseph, after every prepared speech, would reinforce the 3 rooms based on the speech topics that were as if formulated based on the theme. The first speaker, Anil, did his Ice Breaker Speech entitled Adaptability which is a guiding principle and the 2 advance speakers, Nadim and Kit, talked about Life Purpose and Mind Mapping respectively. Kit was awarded as the Best Speaker.

The second stop, Body, was the most fun part because here Joseph presented Transcendental Yoga, Eating Mindfully and Exercise for Feeling. Joseph even asked everybody to sit on the floor to try the transcendental yoga which was well-received and complimented to be effective in “mind/body cleansing”. The effect of it was evident when the Table Topics led by Farooq was, without a doubt, aced by the volunteers. Philip got the award for Table Topics after he wowed everybody with his on-point quip to the question, “What is happiness?”, where he even incorporated other volunteers’ answers to support his idea on contentment. Now only pros do that!

The 3rd and final stop was Soul. Joseph explained why people die even if they are still physically alive when you don’t manifest what your soul wants to do. And how would you manifest your soul? Joseph shared 3 ways: travelling, doing your passion and love. And the General Evaluator, Dennis, seemed to agree! In his evaluation of the overall flow of the meeting, he zeroed on in living our passion as public speakers by capitalizing on the feedback/evaluations. And the Best Evaluator, Noor, certainly did that!

In conclusion, Joseph highlighted that happiness is a way of travel, not destination! Sweet!
 
 

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