Last night we held our Greensburg Toastmasters meeting back at the courthouse after going 100% virtual last time. We had eight in attendance, four in person and four online. Two of the attendees were District Leaders, that being our Area 24 Director and our Program Quality Director. I was able to give our Area Director the meeting time and the Zoom link for our meeting as it was his official area visit. While we have our dedicated members, we need to get membership up in order to qualify for not just Distinguished, but Smedley Distinguished. We started that process by working on the Club Success Plan and will have that submitted by the September 30 deadline.
We had two speakers on the agenda and they did well. Sam spoke first and asked us, “What Slows You Down?”. I’ll answer this question myself momentarily. Jim spoke about the events leading up to his knee replacement surgery. Both speakers will continue their presentations at our August 20 meeting. With heading to Philadelphia for the International Convention, I’ll be evaluating the second part of Jim’s speech next meeting.
At our officers’ meeting, we discussed the Club Success Plan, as I alluded to earlier. My plans between now and the end of 2025 are to finish Levels 4 and 5 in my Presentation Mastery path. In addition, we also did a SWOT analysis for our club. We are a tight knit group and we have our core members who attend regularly. While we are a great club, we can most definitely use new members who we can groom as future leaders for our club. We may bring back the Moments of Truth as a Table Topics session this Fall, as well.
We need to work on inviting people to our meetings and the website needs to be updated. That has been addressed and we’re working on that. Greensburg is the county seat of Westmoreland County and we can definitely attract new members. I can talk up Toastmasters at Bible Study Monday night and promote it on Facebook as well as this blog, as I’m doing right now.
I believe we’ll be Smedley Ready by June 30 and have this club booming!
The answer to the question, “What Slows Me Down?” is distractions, plain and simple. What better place to find distractions than on social media. I’m not knocking it as social media can be very useful. But it is also a double-edged sword.
The “socials”, as like to refer to them, have their positives and negatives.
The positives of social media are:
- That you can find out about an event at one of your favorite places (Cutie’s 2nd Birthday, Fall menu launch).
- Get news or weather on the go.
- Find the link to a blog that I might know of (stylishdtm.com).Â
The negatives of social media are:
- Views which may be different than yours.
- Looking at people’s profiles and realizing that your life isn’t as good.
I know there’s many answers but I chose a few. One for me is that I like people to make a fuss over me and when I don’t get attention, I get discouraged. The story of my fashion journey. *Sigh*
Finally, I ate a pre-Toastmasters dinner at Kings Family Restaurant in Hempfield. I figured I want to enjoy a meal here while there’s still time, you don’t know what you got until it’s gone. I still hope that Kevin and I can meet here in September. From the marquee, it said that wraps were the feature item. I took advantage and ordered a Buffalo Chicken Wrap. My meal was good and the service was excellent. I saw the employees all working and doing a great job.
A once vibrant chain with over 30 locations has dwindled down to three.
Raising Cane’s tomorrow!
Stylish 🍒 