Toastmasters-Speech 2

There is so much to do. There is never enough time. I feel pressurized & hassled. I don’t feel that I m leading a happy perfect life.

How many of you have NOT faced the same situation OR a situation similar to this.

Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow Toastmasters & Guests

Each day in our life, we wake up, go to Office, comeback home, eat drink & sleep. Have you ever thought what you want in life is in alignment with what you are doing right now. It is incredibly easy to get caught in the activity trap of day-to-day life. To work harder & climb up the ladder of success only to realize that the ladder is leaning against a wrong wall. So it is Very important for us to decide what we want to do in life.

Let me take you to a simple exercise. I want all of you hear to visualize the situation that I am going to explain now. You may all, close your eyes for better concentration. In your minds eye see that you are going to the funeral of a loved one. You park your car & enter into the building. You will see the flowers & see the sad faces of friends & relatives.

As you walk down to the front room of the building & look inside the casket, you suddenly come face to face with yourself. Yes, This is your funeral 3 years from now.

As you take a seat & wait for the services to begin, you look at the program in hand. There are to be 4 speakers. The first speaker is from your family & the 2nd speaker is one of your friends who can give a sense of, what you were as a person. The 3rd speaker is from your profession & the 4th from ur society

Now think deeply. What character & achievements would you want them to see it in you & what difference would you have made in each of their lives? I want each one of you to take a few minutes to jot down these impressions once you reach home.

Now you may open your eyes.

These impressions will greatly increase our personal understanding. As Martin Luther King, Jr. put it well: "The time is always right to do what is right." Decide to always do what is right - today and every day - and you will find yourself building a life that matters.

We are always presented with numerous difficulties in life. It is actually kind of beautiful when u think about it. Here we are sitting & minding our business & from out of no-where comes a perfectly designed problem to make us stronger & wiser. So the best possible outcome is not to whine about it but to accept the challenge and embrace them.

No one has ever faced greater struggles in life than this legendary Cyclist, Cancer survivor & 5-time winner of Tour-De-France. (Now anyone in this audience who can name this Cyclist will get this chocolate). At the age of 23 with sheer commitment, he became the first American to win the Tour-De-France. At the age of 24 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer & doctors gave him a 20% chance of survival. From the pinnacle of his career he was bought down to the depths of despondency. He didn’t whine & fret about his fate. He decided to fight back cancer. The greatness of man is such that not only did he fight back Cancer but also he was into racing the next year. And the very next year he won the Tour-De-France for the 2nd time. There are innumerable no of cases where people have fought & survived against all odds & became legends in their own field.

Our life is much like the evolution of a butterfly. The butterfly has to struggle & struggle inside the cocoon to get the strength to its wings.

Ladies & Gentleman, we all are like these beautiful butterflies with our fair share of struggles in life. We gain strengths from these struggles. Remember, “Diamond is just another piece of coal, which performed well under pressure”.

One of the fundamental freedoms of human kind is his freedom to choose. We don't get to choose how we're going to die. Or when. We can only choose how we 're going to live. The freedom to choose our lives, the freedom to choose our partner, the freedom to choose our day-to-day actions.

How judiciously & wisely we want to exercise our freedom of choice determines the outcome of our actions. I would like to leave you ladies & gentlemen with this poem by Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a Yellow wood”

And Sorry I could not travel both

I took the One less traveled by

And that has made all the Difference.”

Remember that, “Our life is the sum result of all the choices we make”.

Mr. Toastmaster.

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