Lessons Learned

I haven’t had the chance to update my blog in quite some time, but no, I did not win my club’s International Speech Contest.  There was only one other contestant and he did a great job with his speech.  It was titled “The Rainbow Connection” and he somehow tied Barack Obama, Kermit the Frog and [...]

During my (now) 10 years in Toastmasters, I actually never competed in any of my club’s International Speech Contest.  Actually I was only eligible to compete in 5 of them as I did not reach the minimum six speeches until after the 2000 contests, plus I was a District 30 officer for 3 additional years. [...]