Transforming Dreams into Reality Prabhav Agarwal VP Membership Salt Lake Toastmasters Club Division PR Manager, Division K (Area: 3, Division: K) With great ambition comes great dreams and with great dreams come great responsibility. This is my version of Spiderman. I believe dreams when not given the due respect convert into night mares to haunt you. And these nightmares when not catered, grow exponentially, killing you within you. At my age, a dream isn’t just my dream, it is my parents’ dream, my tuition teacher’s dream, my friend’s dream and many more stakeholders are involved. Stating it, my dream asks me to hold a strategic position in a Multinational Company and make key decisions to leave a lasting impact on the society. This when discussed at length, ‘twas laughed at! Nevertheless I regained, and got up from my sleep. My dream in Toastmasters was no different. Entering the room when there’s an applause always felt like a betrayed appreciation on compulsion. I wanted to convert this. My dream is to achieve such heights as a public speaker, that no matter which room am I standing in front of, no matter whoever sits inside, STARTS clapping as soon as I enter. I don’t want to wait for the applause, but their hands should wait for me to enter to start of rattling. I know, it is only on this platform that I can get these foolish proud dreams fulfilled. Well, Toastmasters isn’t about communication or public speaking only. It is more about leadership, networking and opportunities. Having delivered only a few speeches climbing up my path slowly, I gave up on my dream. I realised I was too slow. But, on the brighter side, one evening, standing at the gate, at the end of the meeting (as the VP Membership of my club) holding a diary, a pen, a card and a bunch of words within my mouth I started off - “Toastmasters is where you should be every Tuesday evening. It helps you grow in a vibrant atmosphere and.... .” blah blah. That speech that day motivated 5 of them straight. They were mesmerised. They approached me for tips. And I just had one answer - JOIN TOASTMASTERS! And guess what they are members now!!!
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