THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

The most beautiful thing about toastmasters is that it teaches you kindness. Kindness is giving people your time and effort to review their thoughts, and that is returned back at you. With that, people have a mutual connection in mindset and speech, and that influences society in a positive way. The purpose of that is to improve language and communication skills.

Furthermore, a great chance to learn leadership throughout different stages of toastmasters because every role affects you in several ways. For example; sometimes you differ between judge or contestant, that’s why people around the toastmasters environment should take responsibility in the way they act.

TM Johara Abualnass Arabic Committee Chair District 105

Some Glittering Milestone Moments

Some Glittering Milestone Moments

The COVID 19 pandemic had brought everything to a standstill, so when I assumed leadership of District 105 on July 1, 2020, I was aware that our district faced challenging times ahead. The new format was virtual meetings. I personally preferred to concentrate on the problems rather than the available solutions. We had to envisage a different approach as a district team.

It was then our district PR Manager DTM Deepa Surendran, introduced 21 day District 105 fitness challenge. This project was in conjunction with HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Dubai Fitness Challenge 30 X 30.

The unprecedented number of entries we received for the three-week fitness challenge astounded me. The goal of the challenge was to prepare participants for the demands of daily life by making them mentally and physically agile. To motivate the public, participating members of our district shared a 10 seconds on 1-minute-long video to their social media accounts. The posts featured the hashtags for their club, neighborhood, division, and district, highlighting the campaign slogan “Teamwork will make our dream work.”

I took part in this challenge as well, and I had fun sharing my training videos online. When members supported our district 105 project, which was a great experience in and of itself, I was ecstatic. This remains one of my most treasured memories from my time serving as district director.

Knowing that toastmasters are eager to investigate new possibilities and get fit in new fields was a very pleasant experience.