Bill SituClub President Certificates of Level 1 completion for club members Scott Feng and Allen Tang Over the past two weeks, five of our club's members successfully completed the first level of their chosen paths. What's more is that these members have been Toastmasters for no longer than five months! Needless to say, I can't be more proud of the effort and dedication that these club members have put in. I joined Toastmasters a little over two years ago, and by far, this has been the most number of education awards that I've seen in such a short time span. These Toastmasters may be early on in their journeys, but they certainly are in the groove and should set a positive example for you to follow. Getting the Ball RollingI am not a physics major — in fact, I actually haven't done any courses in physics since grade 11! Still, I'm going to try to impress my Physics 11 teacher by explaining how momentum works :) When an object's at rest, it stays at rest. It won't move until you apply force to it. Similarly, once an object's in motion, it stays in motion until there is a force of some kind to stop it. A ball is not able to roll by itself. You need to do something to get it rolling (I mean it in a literal sense this time). Hopefully that was a satisfactory enough explanation :) But what has this got to do with the topic of this post? Certificates of Level 1 completion for club secretary Betty Kwok, member Sharon Xu, and club treasurer Shoko Ueno The beauty of the Toastmasters education program is that you can go at a pace that is suitable for you, but this definitely can be a double-edged sword. When you're in the groove of getting ahead on your projects, you are in a motivated state to progress. However, the moment that you decide to hold off for an extended amount of time on your projects, your motivation will begin to dwindle, and sooner or later, your progress can literally come to a dead stop. In other words, unless you actively pace yourself and do your projects, you won't get where you want to in your Toastmasters journey. Contributing to Club SuccessYou've probably heard the expression before that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts". This statement does hold true in many circumstances. However, in Toastmasters clubs, there is one way in which the whole is actually directly equal to the sum of its parts. Enter the Distinguished Performance Report (DPR). If you're not already familiar with this, the DPR provides statistics on how well on track the club is to achieving club awards (Distinguished, Select Distinguished, and President's Distinguished designations). For each award, there is a select number of goals that a club needs to meet in order to qualify. A number of these requirements are sufficed through education awards. When a certain number of members in a club complete Level 1 of Pathways, then that checks one goal off the list. The same applies for the other Pathways levels. As a side note, the traditional Toastmasters education program will be phasing out rather soon, so Pathways levels will soon be the only measure of club education goals.
To put this another way, when you're progressing with your projects and completing levels, you're actually making an important contribution to your club. You're adding to your club's total number of educational awards, which gets your club another step closer to qualifying for Distinguished/Select/President's. With all of this in mind, when you get ahead with your Toastmasters education, you do big favours for both yourself and for your club, so get going!
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