Goals - Peter Varholak
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Good
evening mr president, mr
toastmaster, fellow toastmasters and most welcomed guests.
Imagine that you travel
on the boat and you are in the middle
of the ocean. The ocean is blue and deep and you can smell litle bit salty air. You feel only mild wind from time to time on your face
and in your hair but it is ok
because is nice and sunny weather.
Not too hot. Just perfect. But you
don´t see earth anywhere. And you
don´t have any navigation device and
have no idea how to steer your boat.
But now you are enjoying... You have
no clear goal where you want to float in your life.
Do
you know what you want to achieve in
your life? Hands up how many of you
actually wrote your goals somewhere?
To the piece of paper or computer or tablet or to the wall at
home anywhere. Hands up... According
to one study only 3% of population write down their goals.
But what is even more fascinating the same group of people had been interviewed 10 years later. This people from 3% that wrote
down their goals earned 10 times
more than rest 97% combined.
Exercise
There
exists simple exercise. Wherther you
think about setting up your 3 most
important goals in life for 3 days, 3 hours or 3 minutes you come up with very similar ideas. I did this exercise
myself and my 3 most important life
goals are: 1. to be best possible leader
I can become, 2. to learn as
much about real life as I can
and 3. to dance at professional
level.
Toastmasters can help you to reach your goals
All
you do can help you reach your goals. We are part of the organization that is
helping me to reach 2 of my life goals. Toastmasters is helping me to became excellent leader and to
learn great deal about life. I just started my 2nd year in comitee
in Russian English Speakers and recently
become Area Director for Area where
1st London and other 5 clubs belong.
So now I am responsible more
less for more than 200 people. But
this is not about me. It is all about you. What goals you have in life? You want to earn more money? I heard
that for some people that started toastmaster journey their income quadrupled or even more in just 2 years. Is your life goal to have better relationships? Yes definitely
toastmasters will teach you to negotiate, persuade, flatter, to listen others
more, to structure what you want to say, to help others more and generally to
become better person. To become a leader. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn
more, do more and become more, you are a leader. You help others to reach their potential.
And leader is somebody like you or me.
Short or tall. Good looking or not so good looking. Introverted or extroverted.
Realistic or idealistic. There are all
kinds of leaders on the world. Do you want to became important person or set up
your own bussiness or just climb corporate ladder ? Yes toastmasters
will teach you basics how to do it
and what you need in order to do it.
I have seen real examples of
people reaching very high positions, people setting up or expanding
their bussinesses. I have even seen people with almost no social skills becoming centre of attention after some time in
toastmasters. And this all begun
with simple goal setting.
Set your goals
I want
you to think about your goals. I want you to do this
simple exercise. In 3 minutes write your 3 life goals. Write them down and remind
yourself about them ocassionally.
You will suddenly become like on boat that I mentioned with clear direction and navigation. You will no
longer end in places that you don´t
want to be. And you will be closer than you think to reach your life goals.
Conclusion
Set
sail fellow sailors!
Thank
you