Toastmaster Club Speech P2-1 Be someone's rainbow

Dear fellow toastmaster and distinguished guests, good evening. My name is Nikko. Today I am going to share 2 stories to you regarding to positive influence.

No matter your thoughts, your behaviors, your attitude, they will all be observed and will impact the others, I don't mean that you can't be the one you want to be. I just want to point out, if you are a positive person, you can make the world better, as someone might be motivated by you and you can give them some positive power.

The first story is about toastmaster club, I am an ordinary mom, my routine life is to balance my work and my family, especially my kid, and it make me feel exhausted. Aimed to improve my English skill and public speaking skill, my friend Shelley recommended me to join toastmaster club, things changed. She is a good role model for me, she showed me what is confidence and talent to be a good speaker. I got lots of chances to push myself to speak in public in English, and club members motivated me to take more challenges. When I post my toastmaster club photos into my wechat moments, lots of my colleagues come to me and say that they are very interested in this activity and motivated by me. That surprise me a lot, I didn't image that I can motivate someone else, and it did. Some of my colleagues come with me and now decided to join our club, that is a positive circle, as they also can influence the others.

The second story is about Yoga, I pick up my routine yoga class from Feb, so many yoga fans in our class give me strength and encourage me to keep it. When a group of people gathered and learn together, they encourage each other and help each other, we never say give up, when we are tired, we just take a short break and back to our yoga class and fight. For our health and for our faith, for everything we are pursuing, if you don't say quit, no one can stop you. Positive influence help people find their way to constantly insist on something they believed in.

Then you might want to ask me, how to have positive influence, here are 2 useful and important tips for you. The first one is to have a positive attitude, there is a story about my husband, when I feel upset or freak out. He calm me down and comfort me, then I ask him, why you are always so calm and seems you don't care the result. He tell me, he cared, but when there is nothing to do or to change the situation, be positive, because a positive attitude will help you to find another way to achieve your goal.  Anger or complaint didn't help. He inspired me and we can look at the big picture not just that moment. The second tip is leading by example, make sure if you are telling someone to do something that you are doing it as well. Simply by leading by example, you will be showing that it can be done. Most people don’t want to be the first; they want to see someone else do it first. Be that someone else for them.

The thing is sometimes, we didn't notice that we can mean a lot to someone else, we are just living in our way, doing those daily routine stuff, go to the office, try to finish our work every day, sometimes we got compliment from our customer or coworkers, and sometimes when we let our boss down, we have to say sorry and feel upset. This is life, life sucks, but somehow when you notice that even you are not the best, you still got the chance to be someone's rainbow in their clouds, it make you feel really flattered and you feel that you have the responsibility to be better. Try to be the rainbow for someone, and be the one you want to meet in the future.