Riina kogemised

What a beautiful morning! That was the very first thought that went through my mind waking up in Pärnu after a good night sleep. Even though I stayed up until 2 am or so, I felt so fresh and ready for the BIG day!

I had gathered a lot of thoughts during that search for puzzles, pictures, empowerment speeches and so on. Now it was time to put them all together with the ideas that I had gathered during past days. Some time ago, I had to make a presentation and I know that it’s really effective to put max 6 points to the PPT page and create the talk around it. So, consider it done, I figured.

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I tried it, didn’t work for me. So instead I started to make changes in a web page that I have to administrate from time to time. One of the VP candidates asked me 4 hours before the event started – how’s your speech coming up. And I was honest with her, I said that I feel really low and I’m not even concentrating on the speech. She said something like, well then, start working on it!!! :D But I still didn’t, I still didn’t know how to make that perfect speech.

The next stadium – half an hour before the official opening I spoke with the other LCP candidates, most of them anyways. They were really uncertain about their speeches as well. At least I wasn’t in it alone :D They had difficulties finding their themes as well, trying hard to come up with something people really want to hear :) As we were discussing these things, it started to dawn on me, what I want to say and what should be my message – I have thought this through, how did I come to this conclusion, what does it say about me as a team member, me as a possible team leader. What kind of person am I and why in the world should I be the one right now.
Official opening was over, president candidates were sent to a separate room for preparation, we were not allowed to listen to each other speeches. When I sat there, I realized – shit, in 20 minutes I have to go and deliver the speech. Oh, shit, I have to do SOMETHING, NOW! Panic kicked in! Others were nervous about their speeches, I was mumbling to myself and out of the blue, I started to write things to my paper.

• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France
• TOOLS – BUILDING TOGETHER
• PUZZLE
• IF YOU CAN DREAM IT YOU CAN DO IT
• IMAGINATION IS A POWERFUL TOOL
• APPLICATION – PEACE & FULFILLMENT – NOT HAPPENING
• HOW DID I COME TO THIS CONCLUSION
  • SPOKE WITH THE TEAM

NO! Not gonna happen, not good enough, I messed up this paper. Quick, I have 10 mins left, get me a new piece of paper!

• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France
• Application – peace, didn’t happen
• How I got to this point
  • talking with my team
  • with people I trust, analyze, support
  • asking questions from myself
  • considering all aspects, perspectives
  • looking at what can I do to make a difference in our LC
  • seeing the bigger picture
• Difficulties
  • lack of motivation
  • sometimes things seem to be good enough already
  • is it really something i want
  • when there are problems – i start thinking about solutions
• Then I remembered from past – puzzles
  • all our lives are puzzles
  • looked at the piece
  • found it was mine
• Quote from the beginning
• Tools
  • building together
  • helping/teaching to learn new tools
• If you can dream it, you can do it!
• Imagination is one of the most powerful tools
  • LC meetings
  • learning together
  • improving our lc
  • work together
  • build together
• I CAN!
• Thank you!

Based on these little bullet points, I made this speech happen. I made it happen so, that people told me later on that they liked it :) Thinking back to it during these past postings – it brought all this back to me, how awesome was the feeling once it was over. Once I was back in the preparation room, few more candidates still waiting for their turn. Ahh, it was awesome and if I could do it all over again, I would. I wouldn’t want to change it for anything in the world :)