Ladies and gentlemen, As my term as Area Director for District 44 Toastmasters International concludes, I am filled with deep gratitude. I want to express my sincere appreciation to those who supported and guided me throughout this incredible journey. To our Division Director,Marcia Williams, your dedication and leadership shaped our success. Your unwavering support allowed […]
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“Walking the Talk: Putting Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality into Action”
‘April’ is recognized as the month of diversity. I was invited as a guest speaker by the Interstate North Toastmasters Club as a guest speaker. This was my speech: What is diversity? What is inclusion? What is equality? I know you can get answers for all this when you just hit a button and Google, right? Yeah, I wanted to share a story […]
How is your Mental Health?
The term Mental health was revolving all around and kindled my curiosity. I started researching the topic. Mental health is defined as “A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to handle normal life stresses, work productively and fruitfully, and make a contribution to society”. Mental health is not just […]
Time to Change
Wise men say change is inevitable. I’m going to share a few important changes that happened in my life and how those changes created an impact. There is a saying in my native language Tamil, ‘Matram enbathe Maratha ondru’. That means we can never change changes occurring in our lives. For a long time, I believed […]
The story behind my Humorous speech contest
‘Look back, the path you traveled! That’s the best teacher of all!’ Don’t you all agree? I take this opportunity to look back at my toastmaster’s journey and share with you the story behind my humorous speech division contest, Toastmasters International. Honestly, I volunteered to compete in the contest, since there were no members representing […]
Food Ingredients and their Medicinal Benefits – Turmeric
“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.” Turmeric, originating from India, reached the coast of China in ad 700 and reached East Africa 100 years later and West Africa 500 years later. Arab traders were instrumental in spreading the plant to the European continent in the thirteenth century. […]
Hello to NLP – II
Today I’m going to talk about NLP techniques, basically part 2 of my previous topic Hello to NLP. Before I start, I would like to summarize my previous topic; a quick recall. Hello to NLP was an introduction session, explaining what it is, how it works, and its benefits. NLP is Neuro-Linguistics Programming. NLP is […]
Research on ‘Standing Desk’
In today’s competitive world, we have various job categories like different industries, functional roles, and areas of expertise. One common thing is the sitting posture. Sitting too much is seriously bad for your health. People who sit a lot every day have an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, burn very few calories, linked it […]
What is your Leadership Quality
What is your Leadership quality? November 29, 2019, Thanksgiving Day was when I first landed on this moon, the US. it was a noticeably big decision. I started working, i.e. learning, exploring, and experimenting at 16, which is quite common here but in India, with few families, girls can get educated and then get married. […]
Whose fault is it
Whose fault is it Knock Knock! Baby, someone is knocking at our door. “Maintenance!!” Baby, it’s for the maintenance work. Can you please open the door? Sweet husband, he does everything for me. Recently I moved into a new bigger apartment which involves lots of shopping, lots of fittings and lots of maintenance too. The […]