Organic Farming

Project 2: Get to the Point

Objective:   Select a speech topic and determine it's general and specific purposes. Ensure begining, body and conclusion reinforce the purposes.

Duration:   5 to 7 minutes

Speech:

Opening:

Organic, Organic, Organic is the buzz word in today’s world. Everything is tagged with the term ‘Organic’ from fruits to vegetables, herbs to spices and even from clothes to cleaning products. So what does this Organic mean? Organic means producing groceries or goods in a natural way, without adding any chemical or hormonal substances to the plants or trees. Today I am going to talk specific about Organic Farming.

What is Organic Farming?

According to USDA Organic Farming is a system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic inputs.  It is becoming quite popular in USA these days in order to produce Organic Foods. Organic Farming is not a new concept, it is a revisited old method which our ancestors used to follow. Organic Farming is pretty popular in India from ancient time. It is a method of farming system which primarily aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good health by use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes) and other biological materials along with beneficial microbes (bio fertilizers) to release nutrients to crops for increased sustainable production in an ecofriendly pollution free environment.

Why -  the need of Organic Farming?

The population of the planet is skyrocketing around 7 Billion and providing food for the world is becoming extremely difficult. The need of the hour is sustainable cultivation and production of food for all which is possible only by Organic Farming.

Benefits of Organic Farming

Better Nutrition: Organic farming ensures the nutrition in soil, that get released to plants directly, the produce form organic Farming are rich in nutrients.

Free of Poison: As there are no pesticides used on the plants, fresh produce from Organic Farming are naturally free of poison.

Enhanced Taste: Organic vegetables taste better than normal ones, fruits has natural sugary taste than normal fruits.

Longer Shelf-Life: Organic plants have greater metabolic and structural integrity in their cellular structure than conventional crops. This enables storage of organic food for a longer time.

How we can be part in Organic Farming?

You don’t have to own a land or farm to start Organic Farming. You can start with baby steps start Organic Gardening in your own backyard. With a little planning and spending time daily you can create organic produce in your own home.

Example:

When we moved to our house my father and father-in-law helped me to start a small vegetable bed; with little planning and proper care I was able to get fresh some produce from my own garden. Later I have expanded that bed and added several raised beds now in my garden, today I am able to feed my family up to 2 months in a year with the fresh produce from my own garden. I feel proud not only to serve my body and family nutrient food but also to be part in bringing ecological balance in nature.

Conclusion:

Organic farming is not a luxury, it is becoming necessity for our planet. Just by taking part in it we can bring the balance in eco system. I want everyone to give it a thought and spend little time and effort towards organic gardening, in order to contribute to organic farming, which is the only way to give nutrition for our next generation in a natural way.

Go Green and Be Organic!

Feedback:

• Good posture and eye contact
• Try to have the flow until the end
• When you are looking for terms use simple words to maintain the flow

Be Present and Live the Moment

Project 2: Organize your speech

Objective:  Create strong opening and conclusion

Duration:   5 to 7 minutes

Speech:

Good Afternoon All. I am excited that you are present here today. When I say, present, that reminds me of my school teacher yelling from my childhood days when I used to get lost in thoughts in the classroom “Where are you looking, Body present and Mind absent fellow?”  Does it sound familiar to you?  In professional world also most of us are mind full than mindful in meetings.  Not only at work but in our daily routine also I see people getting lost in thoughts worrying about future where they don’t have control over, instead of enjoying the greatness of presence that is in front of them now which they have full control on.

I want to share my personal experience with you.

One day, I returned from work and picked up my kids and done with after school snack routine. I was relaxing in the couch sipping into my evening coffee, with my little gadget in front me browsing through an article ‘Teenage kid’s behavior in High School?’ on social media. My son came to me with lot of excitement to share about his successful goal that he made with which his team won in the soccer game. I pretended like I am listening but lost in the article that I am reading which he noticed. And he said to me, “Mom, you are always like this, never pay attention to what I say?’. I tried to calm him down and said that I was listening, by that time the damage has already happened. He burst into tears for, me not being there for him, though I was there, I wasn’t present. Then I felt so bad and realized that if I don’t take care of the small thing that lies in front of me right now which is being there for my son to share his memories, cheer him up and laugh with him, then there is no point in worrying about his behavior in high school which was the article that I was reading a moment ago. That’s when I learned I need to ‘Be Present and Live the Moment!’

At work also these days I see several of us get into our little gadgets in meetings without focusing on what speaker or presenter is talking about. Then there is no point in attending the meeting. Just don’t go to the meeting, you will be distraction to speaker and other attendees too. If you have some urgent message that can’t wait, then go outside and do that business. No one can do multi task at the same time, not even a Super duper computer or Superman or Wonder girl. Even when computers multi task CPU does one thing at a time by efficiently using resources at their ideal time. I am a computer engineer, you can trust me on that. Always Be present at work and Do one thing at a time and Do it right.

The method of Being Present is not that hard, it is just that we don’t practice.  Most people don’t learn to be present because they don’t practice. When you practice something regularly, you become good at it.

Here’s how to do to: whatever you are doing right now, learn to focus completely on doing that one thing, pay attention, to every aspect of what you are doing, to your body, to the sensations, to your thoughts.  You can start practice being present every day with a simple task like brushing in the morning to sleeping in the night. Practice, Practice, Practice then being present will become natural.

Yesterday was history make a memory and learn a lesson from it, Tomorrow is a mystery have a hope and make a plan for it. Today, right now, this moment is a Gift that is why it is called Present. So be present and act now to live every moment.

Feedback:

• Flow of thought was natural. Great eye contact. Able to connect with audience with opening questions and anecdotes.
• A bang is missing. Work on to have strong conclusion.
• Practice more to reduce the nervousness.

My3 and her Three

Project 1: Ice Breaking Speech

Objective:

Duration: 4 to 6 min


Speech:

This is Mythreyi known by a nick name My3. Since I am new to this club, I thought of sharing about myself with you all for my first speech, what else would be a good topic for an icebreaking session, Right? I am originated from India. Most of the Indian names has a meaning tied to it so does my name. Mythri means friendship and being friendly. People who know me usually say i do justice to my name. I am a friendly, amicable and approachable person. I am going to talk about My Three favorite things at each stage of my life.

During my childhood My best Three are part of my family. My Dad, Mom and Younger Sister, we have a small and sweet family. Since I have working parents they always raised us in life with Three important things Discipline, hardworking and humbleness. They gave us freedom to Dream Big and always supported us to aim High. I remember one saying from them ''Time is Money and Work is God!'

My Three favorite subjects are Maths, Physics and History. I love maths, because our life is full of numbers. Since the time we wake up our life revolves around numbers, Time, Money, Calories and everything. I love History because I always believe We need to learn from History time-to-time.

I have come to USA for my higher studies and completed my masters in UTD. I have started my professional career in IT industry. I am currently working as Program Manager at MedAssets a healthcare company. I love to solve Problems and trouble shoot issues. Puzzles, Crosswords and Sudoku are my 3 personal favorite things that I do when I am all alone (which is very rare). In my professional career I have learned three things Timelines, Trustworthy and Transparency. I always find myself happy being around people, spreading the joy and happiness.

The three people in my Family My Husband, My Son and My daughter who are the purpose of my life.

My favorite Three arts are Dance, Stage-Plays and Writing Poetry. I love all of the nature elements like Sun, Moon, Sky, Trees and I get my inspiration from Nature for my arts.

My three passions are Travelling, Gardening and Cooking. Travelling around the world is my dream. So far I have visited 10 Countries outside India and 10 different states with in India. English, Hindi and Telugu are the 3 languages that I can speak fluently.

I love to spend time in my garden during spring and summer, because always the New Life in plants excites me. Every year there are plenty of vegetables get harvested in my garden. And coming to Cooking, it is pure Joy to me. Creating Delicious dishes with several ingredients, spices and herbs is the most beautiful thing that happens with me in kitchen. I do maintain a Food Blog ( Yum! Yum! Yum!) yes that is right 3 Yums in my blog name too! My son encouraged me to start video Recipes so recently I have started my own cookery channel on YouTube. My daughter who is 7 years old is getting inspired by me, started working on her own Healthy Recipes for kids. Just like my parents I allow my kids to dream big and support them to aim high! I teach my kids 'Time is Priceless and Work is Pure Joy!'

Thank you for giving this opportunity to share about myself! 

Feedback:

• Starting with a smile is great
• Develop on more eye contact
• Work on not to hand clasping