Riina kogemised

So, it’s officially over now, the elections, that is. When I gave a speech in order to apply for the executive board of AIESEC Tallinn last year, I wrote down my whole speech and sort of read it out in a nice way. However, this year, it was all totally different.

I tried to put down the sentences for the speech quite many times. First time was probably exactly a week ago, when I started writing down some ideas about the speech… something like this:

• Puzzle
• What kind of person am I, what is so special about me? Why me?
• Comparing myself to the previous version of me – one year ago I didn’t…
• 3 things I want to talk about (puzzle, compare myself against myself instead of others, my personal interests vs local committee interests, what am I strong at, something about my journey)
• and so on…

Okey, it seemed I had something down already, some ideas, but it didn’t work quite that way. First hours/days after sending in the application, I was so depressed that at time I even wanted to withdraw my application. Well, as you see, I pulled through.

Then some new ideas came to my mind, something like:

• When you can dream it, you can do it! Have you ever heard of that? This has been one of my special favorite motto since times I don’t even remember…
• Can you imagine your team meeting with me being there? Can you imagine all those LC meetings, me guiding you through? Can you imagine learning circle events with me? Can you imagine me being the next LCP of LC Tallinn?
• I CAN!
• Thank you!

But still, it was far from the whole idea of the speech. Everyone kept asking – so, how’s your speech coming up? Is it ready yet? Well, it was quite far from being ready, so I decided to put some more effort to it and approach it from different side. I started to put down the timing. How much can I spend on introduction, supporting points and conclusion and what should be the main idea in each section. Some keywords were put down again:

• Me today, tomorrow – compare to myself. Better version of me. Puzzle – the right piece for me. Me and AIESEC Tallinn.
• Values, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for me and the LC, when something is wrong I seek for solutions -> solution-orientated, good or bad?
• Compromises! Empathy! Helpfulness, need to help others
• Right attitude – confirmation from job interviews
• Some questions – Why would I want to become a better version of me? How can I?
• Communication
• Vice presidents are not able to do things only by themselves, the organization is too big – but we can start building it together
• It should bring out the idea that I have thought this step through from each aspect and I imagine myself running our local committee (BS?)
• It can only get better! (heard in a song and wrote it down :D)
• Life is a sequence of problem-solving games

But it still wasn’t enough, I couldn’t see how can I make a speech out of that. So the search wasn’t over yet.

To be continued…