21st ANTC Meeting, Project Speech 4

21st ANTC Meeting, Project Speech 4

Choosing a Secure Password & Keeping your Password Confidential

The incessant ring on my BlackBerry woke me up from my sleep on a Friday morning. My wife was pushing me to take phone. Reluctantly I took the phone. It was our president. He was asking me, to provide his hotmail password. I got shocked for a moment. How I can provide his password. I started asking him, some queries. Those frequently asked questions, like his first girlfriend name etc. Those queries made him to re-collect his password.  After couple of tries he landed his password.

Do you know what was the password is? You keep guessing, I will come back to that later.

TMOD, President, fellow toastmasters and guests.

Each one of us hold quite number of passwords. Social networking access, e-mail access, bank access, office applications access, and many more. How many passwords are each of you holding? Anyone here who holds less than five? Any one holding more than 10. Reminds me of the number of names our president said when I asked him his first girlfriend’s name.

Your phone holds a password, your tablet holds a password, your laptop holds a password and your internet access has password. Is it making you crazy? Are you aware how to protect these passwords?

I shall give you some tips how to choose secure passwords and keeping your passwords confidential.

Choosing a secure password

When choosing a password, consider the following principles;

1. Select a password that is easy for you to remember, but not for others to guess.
2. Do not use your login name or user name in any form (reversed, capitalised, doubled, etc).
3. Do not use your first, middle or last name in any form.
4. Do not use any nicknames you may have.
5. Do not select obvious passwords, such as the name of a close relative, friend or pet.
6. Do not use other information easily obtained about you. This includes your birth date, license plate numbers, telephone numbers, the brand of your car, the name of the street you live on, etc.

If I ask you to choose a password, what comes to your mind first? What passwords are you using on our toastmasters website?

Keeping your password confidential

To keep your password confidential and protect your account from unauthorised use;

1. Never disclose your password to someone else, including your manager or supervisor.
2. Do not write your password down unless it is absolutely necessary. (If you must write it down, store it in a private and physically secure location separate from your account name.)
3. If you receive a document that displays the password for your account, change your password as soon as possible or keep the document in a private and physically secure place.
4. If you are about to type your password and someone is near you, take care that they cannot see what you type.
5. If you suspect someone else has used your account, change your password immediately.

If anyone misuses your account, you are responsible for that. So take care about your password. Don’t keep password as “password, nopassword, password123”. The old precaution is better than cure is still valid. Keep password safe and secure.

Coming to our president’s hotmail password it was “sexygirl”.

Keep a colourful password, and keep colours in your access

Over to TMOD.

19th ANTC Meeting, Project Speech 3

Three Laws of Success

All of us want to become successful in life. But do we know what is the most important characteristics that are required to become successful.  American psychologist and philosopher William James said – “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

TMOD, fellow toast masters and guests Good Evening.

I felt sorry for the time I wasted trying to succeed without knowing the basics.  Today I shall give you 3 laws of success.

Law #1: The Law of Desire

“If you want something badly enough you will get it.”

The people who succeed in life are the people who want to. They make the conscious choice to go after their goals no matter what conditions they have to put up with or how many sacrifices they have to make.

I will give you an example, to clarify this more: – An American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, Helen Keller.

Let me move to second law.

Law #2: The Law of Belief

“Anything you believe to be true will be your reality.”

The mind is our greatest asset. And yet many of us constantly put ourselves down with limiting beliefs. “If you don’t believe that you can achieve your goal, you won’t,” “In order to achieve anything, you must believe it is possible.” Unless you’re 100% sure, the doubt will prevent your success.

I will give you an example, to clarify this more: – Political and ideological leader of India. A pioneer of satyagraha and ahimsa, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Law #3: The Law of Positive Attitude

“The way we think is the way we perform.”

We all have problems. But what determines success is how we respond to them. Since we can’t control the obstacles we encounter, we must control our attitude about them. “Positive attitude and optimism work like a magnet for success,”

I will give you an example, to clarify this more: – an American media proprietor, businesswoman, talk show host, actress, and producer. She raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14, Oprah Winfrey.

Conclusion

What do you think? Which of the three do you struggle with most? And what can you do to change that? A short form of law ABD (Attitude, Belief and Desire). So my dear friends your attitude towards your beliefs and desire with your goals takes you to result.

Over to TMOD

Club Officers Training , Division F & Division J – District 20

Club Officers Training

Toastmaster Timer

One of the attracting parts of toastmaster meeting is the timing mechanism. Initially I didn’t realise its importance. If we take the time to our work, business, life, we can see the money value of time. It’s gave me lot of thoughts and improvement in my schedules.  Slowly I started looking for some resources related to the timing. Below are the couple of resources received from Internet about the timing.

• http://www.highnotesoftware.com/
• http://tmd55.org/timer.htm
• http://www.d4tm.org/Speech_Timer/speech_timer_800x600.htm
• http://centraltoastmasters.org/timer.html
• http://www.regainthemagic.com/BPToastmasters/timer.html
• http://itunes.apple.com/app/speechmate/id297092109?mt=8

Toastmaster Timer