Melva Gifford

This is a presentation at toastmasters

Thoughts lead to feelings, which lead to actions, which lead to results. Want to teach us about this process. Four simple steps. Things you desire most.

Clear space. Literally, anything you have in your home/workspace, declutter and clean it up. – People come home from work and feel overstressed.
She says to get rid of the clutter. It’s the flour to the cake you’re baking.

Get clear.
Talking about you and your emotions/feelings.
What you really want. What is it you really want? (sits in a chair and takes a deep breath) transcendental meditation. Helps you get what you really want.
Simple and elegant technique. Twice a day, find a comfortable chair, sit, close eyes, and for 15 minutes, let mind anchor to the depth of emotion.
Bob Roth, an expert in transcendental meditation says we’re in an epidemic with noise and stress. Can’t deal with it later. It disrupts your entire body system.
Meditation is important.
American Medical Association published 400 studies in last year saying TM brings down anxiety, stress, insomnia, boosts creativity and focus. Leads to

Actions.
Work towards goal or desires.
Set timelines.
With action, there’s motion.
Ripple effect.

Trust in the process.
People are almost to their goal but say they aren’t seeing the results and give up.
Acknowledge and be grateful for the struggle.
When you’ve reached your goal, acknowledge the struggle of getting there.

Review: Four steps to get to what you want. Clear space, get clear, work towards goals, trust in the process.

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These are notes from a church talk. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– James e Foust: we do not believe honesty as mealy as a policy. Honesty is a principle of salvation. No one can be saved without honesty.
– The most important way, to be honest, is with ourselves.
– Foust: is we are interested in the gospel in the least agree we should live it.
– Enus praying for forgiveness v 5. God could not lie.
– Ether brother of Jared sees the finger of the Lord. I know that thou sneakiest truth thou cannot lie.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes: sin has many tools but a lie the handle that fits them all.
– Marshal Romney: if we are dishonest it stems from motivation, opportunity or a flaw in character. Other motives might be greed, peer pressure, revenge. Rationalization or fear of discovery
– Marsah Romendy: set our finances in order to detour to steal or to do dishonest work. Eliminate negative feelings. Choose good environments and good friends that could to avoid being tempted to lie.
– To improve our character flawed action of the doctrines of the gospel.
– Spencer W Kimball: take frequ3esnt search for any hypertrophy. Are we trying to cover small pettiness or gratifications? Are there areas in our thoughts we want to hide from those we respect. Ask the Lord how I can be a more honest person.
– Honesty is living to our full potential.
– As we pray for help we will get help.
– Read the scriptures with the DPA lookout

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Good: ingenuity
Bad: ingunity

I need to remember the word genuine is in ingenuity. The ‘in’ of ingenuity makes the word opposite to the word inside. If you have to use a gun to convince someone that it is not a genuine conversion. So no ingunity.

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If we are going to have a successful club we have to do several things.
1. We need to communicate with someone new.
2. Tm helps you
3. 1. We teach people how to speak to each other.
2. We teach people to listen. How do we listen? Listen with your actively. A leader is a listener. You need to know what the real project is. You listen with your whole body. If the body says one thing and voice another believes the body.
3. We teach people to think on their feet. You need to have the same construction as a prepared speech. You need to have an opening, body and a close. You need to have only 2 to 3 max points.
4. We teach people how to be a member. Different people have different number of talents. You need to learn how to yes the talents that are yours. We want to follow someone who knows where they’re going and knows how to get there.
5. We teach people how to have confidence in themselves. This is the glue to the whole thing.
4. Q: how many of you belong to a perfect club. One way you can tell how good your club is, it is by how many ribbons you have on your banner. When guy became governor, he called top 5 districts and asks what they did well to get to their level. He told his officers what they said to him. He followed up each week with each officer and got status reports.
5. Usually present once a mo. To club officers’ where we are financially involved, gives you accountability.
6. Some use checks and ones that require signatures. Discourage that. Moved band close to where you’re meeting.
Other members take the money on treasurer behalf and the money has never been deposited. Document the deposit.
Make sure the club is aware of the finances.
Some will have a meal on winter and a pot-luck in summer.

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These are notes from a church talk. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– 13th article of faith: We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, We believe all things, we hope all things,” we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
The order of how things are listed in documents, the placement is import. Honest if the first in the 13th article of the name.
– Scout motto: On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
– There is an MTC (Mission Training Center) talk by elder Bednar> the insert is the doctrine. The talk discusses the pattern for scriptures and other church documents as DPA: Doctrine, Principal, and Application. Some examples are in scriptures, the declaration of the family) article of faith or anything certified by the First Presidency.
Doctrine answers the question of why
Principles are less concre4ek. Broken down into parts.
Application is personal. Gospel principles can be applied to everyone. Reading the book of Mormon by the end of the year is a principle we can apply and it gives us benefits.
– Let’s take the principals of faith through the DPA. How can we best exercise or show faith. Make it personal. What can I be doing? Satan is not honest. He may offer a thousand truths to cover one really good lie.
– Honesty is a question answered to get a temple recommend.
– Honesty is very connected to our eternities.
– Every time we open our mouth we make a choice, to be honest or dishonest.
– Speak honestly but also kind.
– In our careers and with our relationship with kids and grandkids to be honest in our relationships and to be straight forward.
– Be truthful in all you do. You will have good friends who know they can trust you.
– Helemen8-10: Nephi: tells people to repent. Calls leaders out. Ch 9:6> Nephi told by God. I am an honest man. He tells God: If you tell the truth and honest, people will believe you.
– If people understand the why, they are much more inclined to so it.

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Here is how you can remember that the word, udder. Udder is spelled with ds. The ‘dd’ look the swelling of an udder when it fills with milk.

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These are notes from one of the presentations at Toastmasters.

Stages

1. Determine where you are at.

If you are on your own. Security awareness is going to be very difficult for you.

You need executive support

One of the industry leaders is SAMS. They just surveyed a bunch of people in security awareness and asked them where they were at. The response was that if you are going to be successful, you are going to need 2.5 full-time employees.

2. Compliance.

Most of the time we have to do security awareness, the reason is that there are a plethora of regulations that require that you train your employees on cybersecurity. You have to determine which regulatory requirements apply to your industry. For example, Paige works in healthcare and she has a HIPPA requirement. She advises that you do a google search and finds regulatory requirements for your industry. She got a list of every requirement she could find. She wasn’t really aware if her company was going to be beholden to the regulations. They often have to give students training because they give them an email. You can require everyone in your organization to participate in it.

3. Build a culture of security awareness.

Her company had just barely ventured into a culture of cybersecurity. That’s where Paige came in. Once her boss got permission to hire her, she began building a culture of security awareness. She couldn’t show her healthcare co-workers scary imagery or messages because they focus on helping people get better. How do you do that? She came up with a culture. She is also a Zero-Harm trainer. This is a great tool because the employees already know about it. Cybersecurity is just another layer on top of it. She came up with a light-hearted company slogan, “Be smarter than the average bear, be cyber aware”. Her company uses STAR to look out for phishing.

She thought she was almost out of time. Actually had three minutes.

You can find help by listening for people that are already interested in cybersecurity. You can use them as your ambassadors. She then asks them for their help.

4. Long-term Sustainability.

She incorporates games, contests, lunch-and-learns with speakers. She uses newsletters and gives them incentives to keep it going. She has ambassadors in different places and gives them autonomy. If you do get a phishing email, try to encourage your employees, so that they feel it is okay to contact us with the email. Just like a doctor can’t tell you what is wrong if you don’t tell him all of the symptoms

5. Have a metric.

Have a baseline from where you can measure. If you have all of these things, you will have a successful cybersecurity education program.

6. You can’t expect to get there overnight.

Show numbers and metrics. Executives like to know that their money is being spent wisely. If you do these things you will have a successful program. It could take 3-5 years but stick with it. You will eventually get there.

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