prepare my Toastmasters icebreaker speech

I did the Table Topics on Thursday evening and they went very well. In fact what I did was to pick out some political policies of some ‘far out’ parties like the Monster Raving Loony Party and got people to speak in favour of them (thing like the Paint It Purple Policy, where they propose that every third building be painted purple). It went down very well and I think people enjoyed it.

Now I’ve put myself down to speak next time in the humourous speaking competition. Now there’s a challenge!

I’ve volunteered to be the Table Topics Master on Thursday evening! That’s an interesting one full of possibilities… and something that should be great fun. I just need to check with the Toastmaster how much time I have so I know how many people I need to speak – and therefore how many different questions I need to come up with!

Yay!

Well, that’s a great start – my pack arrived today with the manuals. I still have a few weeks before I give my first talk, but it gives me something to look at and read!

I have signed up to do my icebreaker speech on the 17th September. I am reasonably certain what I am going to talk about – I need to plan it in terms of the time I have in which to speak.

I have been to the Leeds Toastmasters group 4 times now and have paid my joining and membership fee, and am now looking forward to receiving the Competent Communicator manual to look at.

Ideally I’d like to complete the manual within a year, but I’d rather make sure I get the most from the process, so that’s not cast in stone by any means.

My speech was titled “Learning experiences” and giving the speech was of course a learning experience in itself too.

I was so nervous, and underestimated the length of the speech seriously, but I did not get stuck, or run away.

The feedback was very encouraging, I so happy to have done this.

I’ve written my speech, but it’s bordering too short and does not hold together nicely with the title. I’m considering chickening out. I feel (illogically) that if my speech sucks I’ll get judged not just for my speech but also for the events in my life being boring/lame/bad.

I did my Ice Breaker 1 year ago almost to the day. I cannot believe how far I have traveled since that day. I have barely looked back, other than to marvel at the progress I have made.

I was very nervous, did no gestures and said enough ums and ahs that they gave up counting.

Now, I am much less nervous, move around the speaking area with gestures and rarely use a filler word.

I want to encourage everyone here to go for it. It is the start of a wonderful journey where you get to learn a lot about yourself.

Actually, I planned to give my speech at the meeting after the one I finally gave it. When I showed up to that (earlier) meeting, all talks had been cancelled due to various reasons. I spontaneously decided to give my talk two weeks early. I had prepared it, but I had never practiced it… so it was kind of an impromptu prepared speech :-)
And—my fellow toastmasters liked it! It was a great day !!

god of seasons with motherly love created the good opportunity to make the family complete.

Iam 36 years old male.