Invest to grow

If you were given 86400 dollars a day, what would you do with this windfall?

Buy a car? A lavish bungalow perhaps?

Fly to Europe to watch your favorite football team's games? Or own a private jet and travel around the world?


Most probably those all of those have to come later
  until you really master the ways to invest the 
    dollars in disguise - TIME.


As the old saying goes, time is gold. You harvest what you sow.

In time investment, there is no telling right or 
   wrong.
After all, it is the attitude that matters.


Whatever the outcome is, you grow.
   The upbeat outcomes give you confidence and 
    motivation,
       while the pathetic mistakes make you a wiser
        person.

Here comes another irresistible and unmissable investment scheme.


For the coming meeting, 
  do spare 7200 dollars which are equivalent to 2
     hours and 
   see how the successful icons from all walks of 
       life brainstorm and enlighten you with a 
          Warren-Buffet-lesson.

Event    : Invest to grow

    Date : 30.05.2012 (Wednesday)

   Time : 08.00pm – 10.00pm

Venue : Wisma Penang Garden (Fifth

              

             floor), Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah

          

  *Admission is free.

For further enquiries, please log on to 
         
     http://www.facebook.com/gurneyhydrotmc
                              or

  call 012 627 8056 for Vice President of 
   
   Education.

            An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
                                                                                    

                                                                                   Benjamin Franklin

Change & AGM

The introduction of austerity measures in European countries triggers the revolutionary political waves, 

   sending many of the previously ruling 

   governments to a crash recently.

Some says changes are like the nuclear chain    

     reaction. 

Once it is triggered, a series of self-propagating  

     reactions ensues.

After having had enough of the autocracy, the 

people in African countries stand up straight and 

hold their heads high for democracy,

       

      leading to the birth of an all - time popular

      term, the Arab Spring.

Some opines that changes are like the

   metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

      From downs to ups, you change for the better.

Love it or loathe it, change is an inevitable part of life and making changes is one of the essential life skills.

Like doing experiments,

  after making several changes, 

     failing to get the desired results might be a 

        disappointing and dejected reality to you.

True, result is often an immediate indicator of one's achievement and success.

   Despite the outcome, embracing changes is all

     about the journey and uncertainties you dare 

       to embrace, 

   the fundamentals that make you a more mature 

      individual.

In Toastmasters, change is a daily business. 

  We realise the problems. 

    We take criticisms gracefully. 

     And, we change for the better.

Now, here comes the scheduled change for GHTC in which weary faces step down and fresh faces show up - AGM.

No matter who takes the helm,

  initiating and embracing changes positively will

   always be the inherent culture of GHTC,

     and the prominent attitude of the members.

To discover how making changes is an unchangeable affair for GHTC, do make time for the coming event. 

Event    : Change & AGM

    Date : 16.05.2012 (Wednesday)

   Time : 08.00pm – 10.00pm

Venue : Gurney Hotel (Second floor)

          

  *Admission is free.

For further enquiries, please log on to 
         
     http://www.facebook.com/gurneyhydrotmc
                              or

  call 012 627 8056 for Vice President of 
   
   Education. 

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” –Jim Rohn

Red

Have you ever been shown the red flag in your career?

Not very fancy one. 

Signs like you feel listless and 

   diffident in your work, 

 your boss can't stand with your 

    terrible  presentation that causes
      a plunge in company sales... 

...are the red hue you should take note.

To stay on track, 
 the better bet would be hoping on any
   Toastmasters Club, the leading
    luminary of the art of speaking.

Sure. 


For first-timers, speaking in front of
  the audience might be daunting,

not to mention the blunders made

  on the stage that will be your 
    constant nightmares.

It's normal your face blushes red and 

 flushing yourself out is never the way.

Sticking yourself resolutely to the speaking regime, you are bound to discover the roses of passion.

Be them the determination to stay 
 competitive or the fervour to
   disconfirm your boss's bad impression
      of you,

the speaking prowess in you will come along too.

Over time, with the oral charisma 

  you garner, you can be as attractive
    as those celebrities.


Embarking on your dreamlike path of 
  success, you can swagger on your own 

    red carpet in style.

While making your childhood dream as a
 Manchester United player come true is
  never Toastmasters'niche, 

in terms of self-improvement, this is

 the sort of red journey Toastmasters
   can promise, at the very least.

Red.. the allusion to many of those moments..

From the red line you crossed to the red

 scars you got,

From the red roses you proffer to the

   red lips you kiss,

From the teary eyes that turn red to the
   red wine you intoxicate yourself
     with,

the colour red permeates so, so much in our life, so does Toastmasters'.

Make the coming meeting your red-letter moment & 

 let the sea of reds in Gurney-Hydro 

   Toastmasters Club brings out the red

     hot form in you.

Event    : Red
    Date : 02.05.2012 (Wednesday)

   Time : 08.00pm – 10.00pm

Venue : Gurney Hotel (Second floor)

          

  *Admission is free.

For further enquiries, please log on to 
         
     http://www.facebook.com/gurneyhydrotmc
                              or

  call 012 627 8056 for Vice President of 
   
   Education.  

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.                      

                            Elia Kazan

Fitness 1st

According to a report in 2011, Malaysia has the highest obesity rate in Southeast Asia and ranks sixth in Asia-Pacific region.


While round has yet to be considered as a healthy figure, Malaysians shouldn't be proud of this gruesome finding.


As part of social responsibility to the community,  for the coming meeting,
  Gurney-Toastmaster Club has decided to come up
    with a theme like this.


Whether you are looking for ways to improve your
  stamina, shed off pounds from your body or 
    add some healthy curves on your torso, 
this meeting will absolutely tap into your need.


To make this meeting a success, Jeff Chan, 
   a GHTC's home-grown speaker and a fitness  
      instructor has been invited to be the 
        Toastmaster of the evening.


Jeff, a kind and helpful person won't mind to have a few Jeff-and-you sessions with you for free if you are interested.


The event also features young and talented lad,  
    Dennis who wants to share with all
         his aspirations and insight about fitness.


To achieve good level of fitness and communication skills, one's determination can't be compromised any less and both entail long-term effort.


 Communication skills is a profound knowledge 
  that you can hardly gauge its depth even with your 
     lifetime  
                            while


   fitness is a tool that adds years to your life,
       enabling you to continue pursuing the wisdom.


 Short-term motivation won't make you any similar
   to the chic poser in the poster 
       neither  make you a confident speaker like the 
          candidates in those election campaigns.


While there is always a saying like this, ' you can't have the best of both worlds', the coming meeting is truly a perfect exception.


To achieve these noble goals of life, 
   come and experience how the heavyweights of 
      the club can help you stretch beyond your limit.


  Event : Fitness 1st
    Date : 18.04.2012 (Wednesday)

   Time : 08.00pm – 10.00pm

Venue : Gurney Hotel (Second floor)

          

  *Admission is free.

For further enquiries, please log on to 
         
     http://www.facebook.com/gurneyhydrotmc
                              or

  call 012 627 8056 for Vice President of 
  
   Education.  

Strength does not come from physical capacity.    It comes from an indomitable will.                                         Mahatma Gandhi

Let's SOAR

When we came across the word 'SOAR', we instinctively relate it to the almighty eagle, picturing the eagle dashing and spinning wild on the sky.


Indeed, eagles soaring high on the air is truly a sight to behold. Their grace and pace breathes life to the word 'SOAR'.


After experiencing the toil and moil of life, we often have a thought like this.. 
    ' How good if I'm a carefree bird (eagle in this 
       case). Just spread my wings and soar high at my
         will, flying like no one else's business..'  


In a desperate bid to actualize the imagination,
   you buy yourself some artificial feathers and a 
      tube of super glue,
   make yourself a cone hat as your beak to reduce
      the air resistance while flying. 


Ready, 1, 2 ,3 and  you flap your hands wings as hard and as fast as you can.


This is either Lady Gaga’s next bizarre outfit or your own unique way of soaring. 


    While it is commendable you apply physics in it,
        chances are you are going to have soar sore muscles
          and you still stay on the ground.



Well, you finally succumb to the reality and ask whether there is a more proper and more human way for us to soar?

Fortunately, there is. As how our Toastmaster veteran, K.C.Chee puts it,

S stands for serve (sincerely and wholeheartedly)
O stands for optimistic (even the sky falls)
A stands for appreciative (everyday is Thanksgiving Day)
R stands for resilience  ( bounce back like a bouncy basketball)


This is a much better formula and it is up to you of how to apply it in you own course of soaring. 
 
Prior to that, for sure there must be moments you feel like soaring. Sharing those moments with GHTC is never a thing to be coy about. 


Seeing this meeting is going to be a great sharing, do drop by this time and get your own spark of motivation to kick-start the SOAR formula. 



    Event : Let's SOAR
    Date : 04.04.2012 (Wednesday)

   Time : 08.00pm – 10.00pm
Venue : Gurney Hotel (Second floor)

          

  *Admission is free.

For further enquiries, please log on to 
         
     http://www.facebook.com/gurneyhydrotmc
                              or

call 012 627 8056 for Vice President of Education.      

            'You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of wren.'
                                                                     William James