Meeting Theme for January 2, 2025= WOW or WO-OOOOW.

-----Mary--Toastmaster of the Day's theme: 

       Determined to have WOW moments this year.  Beautiful sunsets.

Word of the Day=delitation, Means great pleasure or enjoyment

Kalyn's Speech titled=Time Lost and Found

----Her question:  Do you live as if you have an endless time left to live?  She was inspired by a book about a persons iespand and it gave her a sence of urgency.  The book said the average US life span for women was 79 years and age 73 for men.  (books name or publishing date not given).  Her conclusion is that she wants to focus on what is essential for her and not what is non-essential for her and find out what is her passion.  In her conclusion, she asked the audience what was their passion and when they would start working on it because it may be later than you think.

Table Topics was looking forward to 2025 and a roadmap for it.

The first question was about artificial intelligence.   What are looking forward to in 2025 as far as AI or technology?  Charles--Crypto and investments and NFT associated with comic books.

Movies looking forward to watching in 2025.  Curt--the SMURFS.  

How to make progress in 2025 from the chart of 32 ways.  Flaka- health, organic food, reduce foods with preservatives, having a moring routine and taking the dogs out.

From the article in Mind Menace about phrases to give your children in 2025. Tanya gave 2 phrases.  The first--two wrongs don't make a right.  Second was, you can catch more flies with honey.  She gave examples of using those phrases and told how she deals with conflict and the importance of making decisions that takes everyone into consideration.

In the new year-how to talk to strangers-Christopher's advice he was given was to start everyone out in the positive.  Assume everyone is a potential new friend.  This will help with a positive outlook for 2025.

What change do you want for 2025?  Mary wants to make the world a brighter place.  Example, her roses for spring.

The table topics were concluded by the Happy New Year song by Dan and Shay (from facebook).

Speech evaluation by Christopher--He used the O.R.E.O method (his own acronym).  I think it stood for Opening, Role (flow), Examples, and Opportunity.

Meeting announcements--we will hold a hybrid meeting next week.  Next weeks meeting will be online and at Kaiser Vallejo Hospital, 3rd floor.

On January 23, we will hold the club contest online.  You can find information about the contest on our Facebook page at Mare Island Toastmasters Facebook