What are your Goals and/or Challenges
Join me in an empowering discussion as we discuss our goals and the challenges we face on our journeys.
Sharing our aspirations and obstacles can help us to connect as well as us uplifts and strengthens us as a community.
I love your ingenuity at the interpretation! Toastmasters is an international organization for public speaking. Not quite sure where the term Toastmasters originally came from but there are chapters worldwide, and every year they host competitions that start at the club level, then move onto the area, then district and then the international level assuming my house holds up, I will be competing at the Area level next but I just got out of the hospital with bacterial pneumonia and the flu and a UTI so I’m just hoping my body recovers in enough time 😀
I'm a stay at home mom. I never thought I would be doing this with my life but I'm loving every step of the way. My husband recommended I stop working this year because I was pregnant with our 3rd child and my body wasn't responding that well to the pregnancy. The challenges I face when taking care of my little ones is finding time for rest and sometimes my speech can become impaired which makes communication with my children difficult. I have thought about us taking ASL classes as a family but never went through with it. Plus finding someone I TRUST to take care of my little people when I have a doctors appointment or IVIG treatment is hard. One of my kids will be starting school next year and maybe finding a sitter for the others will be a little easier but as for now it's difficult.
Like Deborah Vick I too have to give myself grace and be satisfied in knowing I'm giving it my 100% which may look different in others. - Jazmin (MG team member)I completely understand! I hadn’t intended on doing a stay at home mom as I had planned on cleaning my log degree and serving as a career politician. However my body definitely had something else in mind for me, and I am incredibly grateful for the journey that we are on. I actually do know ASL, although not fluent like I used to be I do know some basic words. The other day, while I was in the hospital, RT staff was working with me and I was asked a question and I started answering and sign language and one of the staff members noticed, and was excited to see that I was signing . Either way sign language can be useful, especially in situations where you’re not able to fully speak or maybe combining both together. It can truly be a struggle when things don’t work out the way we had hope for or intended, but for choosing to look at it from a different perspective and see the value in the journey that you’re on at this moment in time! ❄️ team member Deborah ❄️.
As for me … I’m working on preparing my speech for a local toastmaster competition. I’m excited but incredibly nervous. In part bc I didn’t get to prepare the way I would have liked as I was extremely limited and impacted by a delay in my MG treatment. I have questioned and doubted myself, however, having a great accountability group thru one of my public speaking courses, I have been reminded of my worth, message and the power in it. - I’m still nervous and not quite sure how I will remember it all but I’ll giving all I can right now and practicing grace for myself while doing it. ❄️team member Deborah ❄️
A toast master competition sounds interesting. Do you literally make designs in beard and toast it? Please tell me if I'm misinterpreting. - Jazmin (MG team member)
