My Toastmaster Journey

Good morning Toastmaster, Hello members and Guests. If you go to a Restaurant, what is the first thing that you do? The restaurant staff takes you to the table and makes you seated comfortably. Next you will be given a Menu card. The menu has all the items that are available in the restaurant. And you can choose anything from the menu which you like and you will be served. Now consider, if there is a menu or catalogue of all things in this universe, either material things, or non material things like happy, joy, wealth etc. everything, everything in this universe, Assume somebody is giving you such “universal Menu card” to you and ask you to choose. He or She says that please choose from the menu and order. What you would order? It will be a great experience right? In today’s session, I am going to introduce you the person who can give such a menu card and also introduce you the process of ordering from that menu. Sounds interesting? Are you all game? Do you...

Good morning Toastmaster and fellow members and Guests.  Next 7 minutes, I am going to share with you three things My personal experiences with worry. What is worry   based on the research I did on Worry & Finally I want to share a “secret” or “mantra” to overcome worry. This secret worked for me and I am sure it will work for you. Why to talk about worry? As per Survey done by mental health of America, one third of people are depressed due to worry and anxiety. And these people spend around 50minutes to 90 minutes per day just worrying. That is almost 28 days per year spent just worrying. So, first, my personal stories on worry I worry on everything. I do not need a reason to worry. If there is nothing is there to worry, then I worry why I have nothing to worry, am I useless not to have worry! If I plan for Vacation, One week before the trip, I start worrying, how the journey going to be, will the kids like there? Would we get Indian food for the k...

“The greatest gift we can give to one is the gift of “unconditional love”. Unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Good morning, Toastmasters and fellow members/guests. I am Narayanaswamy Nagarajan and called shortly as nagz or nagzee.   There is a story behind this call name nagz . During my first visit to  states in 2002, everytime, I used to tell my full name Nagarajan Narayanaswamy.  200% of time, nobody could get my name and I end up spelling my name every time, like, ‘n’ as in nancy, ‘a’ as in apple etc. I decided that I should have a fancy short name.  I used to follow numerology those days. How many of you know what ‘numerology’ is.  It is a method with occult significance to numbers  and names.  Every alphabet has a numerical value and and every number has  some associated good or bad omens. You can bring in luck just by changing your name.In India, you can often find famous personalities, mostly ...