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Some of them are:
Certainty Contribution
The quest to experience comfort and gain The need to contribute to something
confidence in your life will grow as you set greater than yourself. When you engage
goals and shatter them. The certainty you in the roles of your meetings and support
gain will also help with stress in other areas others, you bring something to other people’s
of life. lives that they don’t get anywhere else.
Once you know your deeper NEEDS,
Variety it will give you the courage and the energy
Do you need to create variety in your life to go out and set SMART goals. More
to relieve boredom, predictability and stagna- importantly, get them met. You can do that
tion? Every meeting and event you engage in with Toastmasters.
will give you a unique set of objectives and
So before you create your goals for the
stretch you in a new way. year ahead, take some time to think about
Significance your deeper needs and let them become

What is your identity? Are you a person the fuel in your Toastmaster tank! After all,
who wants to shine in the world? Are you you never know when a twelve year old in
a person who seeks to help others shine? high heels is watching YOU be your most
Toastmasters is a place for service. It is where fabulous self!
you can grow in deep significance.
Kim Blanquie joined Daylighters Toastmasters
Connection in 2013. She is a Mortgage Banker, John Maxwell
Do you long for more connection? Coach and Trainer, and founder of Summit
I’ve come to see that the opportunities in Leadership Coaching, Inc., which works with
Toastmasters go far beyond developing the leaders and businesses across the country to
speaker inside of us. Toastmasters is ulti- increase purpose and production in the workplace.
mately about the relationships. On January 27th, Kim will have the honor of
Growth being the “Toastmaster” at The Masquerade Ball
The need to learn, experience and grow in Sherwood, Oregon. Tickets can be purchased
mentally, emotionally and spiritually will at http://bit.ly/2iZOl3q and proceeds will go
happen as you prepare for your meetings to benefit a non-profit, Hope for Widows and
and engage with other like-minded people. Orphans.

YOU ARE INVITED TO A BOOK SIGNING & PRESENTATION

Friday, January 27, 2017 - 6-8pm

Joan Lubar, member of Toastmasters for Speaking Professionals, is
launching her newly released book, Rock & Roll at Any Age, with a
book signing and presentation on Friday, January 27, 2017 at
Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty, 310 North State Street, Suite 102,
Lake Oswego, Oregon

Rock & Roll at Any Age, a Rebellious Look at Life, Health and Spiritual
Wisdom from the Sassy Sage. Sharing personal stories with easy ideas
and solutions to move through life feeling as great as possible, Joan
answers the fears and myths that make us sure we will be in pain,
hunched over, sick, tired and overweight, the older we get. Joan lives
the philosophy of “Getting older is inevitable. Aging is Optional.”

Join Joan, enjoy a fun presentation as well as hear a reading from her book while enjoying appetizers,
wine and champagne to celebrate her book launch.

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