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Greg, Robi, & Jamie wish you a Happy New Year!We welcome the New Year with all its opportunities for our District, ourClubs, and most importantly each and every one of you, our Members, toachieve goals and experience growth.

Think back to last June or July whenyou established your personal goaland recommit yourself, focus onachieving that goal. Didn’t set agoal? It is not too late; finish thoselast few speeches or leadershipprojects. Are there obstacles or roadblocks? Map a plan, ask for help,and work the program to drivearound or through the obstacle.

The New Year also brings the most exciting thing to occur in Toastmastersin the last 50 years, Pathways, rolling out in February, and we are excited! APathways Guide will be visiting your club soon, find a way to attend andexperience what Pathways has to offer – it is the future of Toastmasters.

Happy New Year!

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It’s Your Journey! Where will the adventure take you?

The Trio

Officer Training

Training dates for the Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) and otherimportant information are available on the d25 website. See Felicia Humphrey'sarticle for specifics on the sessions available at each TLI.

Officer Training Incentive

Any club that gets four officerstrained will receive $30 inToastmasters International giftcertificates. Training incentive.

If you get all seven officers trained earn some bling and bragging rights for yourbanner.

Super 7 and 7All clubs that had seven officerstrained in the summer and haveseven officers trained in the winter

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are eligible to win a set of officer pinsfor themselves. A winner will benamed for each Division for thoseclubs that meet the 7 & 7 criteria. See all of our promotions.

Club Success WorkshopJanuary 13, 2018 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Texas Wesleyan Univesity Baker Building

Corner Rosedale & Wesleyan 3021 E. Rosedale Fort Worth 76105

Relevant Information

District Leadership OpportunitiesAre you interested in being in DistrictLeadership? Do you need a year ofservice to the members to earn yourAdvanced Leader Silver? We arelooking for members to serve asleaders during the 2018-2019Toastmasters year.

We are having a leadership open house on Saturday, January 27, 2018, fromnoon to 1:30 pm to discuss the appointed positions and other staff roles. Information on leadership roles Lunch will be provided if you are registered. Please register. This year was focused on FUN – I hear that next year will be even better. It’s Your Journey! What will be your next step?

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President'sBreakfast

Presidents, please join us onSaturday, January 27, 2018 from7:30 am – 8:30 am.

Texas Wesleyan University

Baker Building Corner – Rosedale & Wesleyan

3021 E. Rosedale Fort Worth, TX 76105

Special Guest Speaker!

For more information, see the website.

You Get A Bag! And You Get A Bag! EVERY CLUB GETS A BAG!!!

This TLI season be sure you don’tmiss picking up your Club SWAGBag! The district has put togethersome information to help you withmarketing as well as encouragingyour club to Excellence, all in ahandy easy to carry bag!

One member from your club should pick up this bag when they attend aToastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) training day. Limit 1 bag per club!

In the bag you will find:

One green DCP Tracker ribbon to display on your banner10 small and 1 large sticker stars to help track completion of DCP pointson the ribbonOne completely assembled visitor packet with sample welcome letterEnough items to make 4 more full visitor packets

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Sheet detailing how to get more Free Stuff from ToastmastersInternational

Let Everyone Know

Simply tell us why your club’s thebest, And we will share with all the rest!

But don’t be too wordy! Keep to 150 words, or maybe 130!

The promotion page is here. #LoveMyClub comments are available as received.

Open House &Membership Drives

Do you have an Open Houseplanned? A membership drive? Wehave a monthly promotion for adrawing for clubs that hold openhouses. For more information gohere.

Spring Speech Contests

Our spring speech contests are Tall Tales and International Speech Contests.

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Any member in good standing in a club in good standing can compete in theTall Tales contest. We want to hear your stories!

To compete in the International Speech contest, a member must havecompleted six speeches prior to the club contest, be in good standing, and bein a club in good standing.

Area Speech contests begin in February. See when your Area Contesthappens.

Pathways UpdateApproximately 80% of our clubs in District 25have been visited by our Ambassadors!! As of this week, 40 Districts around the globehave launched into Pathways. Thirty-sevenpercent of the members globally now haveaccess to Pathways! Region 3, which includes District 25, will roll outin February 2018.

District Director Greg Pick has more to say about Pathways.

The Pathways Ambassadors and/or Guides will be reaching out to the clubs.

Pathways andBaseCamp Video

Pathways Ambassador AllanPickering recommended this short(1:44) YouTube video on Pathwaysand BaseCamp, as well as members'reactions to it.

Alignment Committee

The Alignment Committee of 2018-2019 has formed and begun

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working. Feedback can be submitted.

Journey AwardsCheck out the d25 website for a listof the amazing bling you can win fortaking your own Toastmasters'journey this year.

Flyer Awards Tracking Submit online

D25 Fantastic FunInternational Visitor

Golden Triangle's holiday partyfeatured a guest from Europe.

Caylea Young of Luxembourg'sGreen Heart Toastmasters attendedthe meeting. Read more.

Authors, Submit your book!

Once Upon A Time invites you topresent a summary of your book astheir book of the month in April.

For further details, see the d25 blog.

Learn to Evaluate

Allan Pickering is presenting on how to evaluate at the January 14 TLI from 4-5:30 pm. Register here.

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If you would like to be a test speaker and get lots of helpful feedback, emailhim.

This year's District Events in photographs.

You can make a big difference in Club Growth for District 25.

Change a LifeYou have an opportunity to say YESto being a member of the DemoTeam. Saying YES does not meanyou will be able to attend everydemo meeting but it does say thatyou want to change someone’s lifeby participating in demo meetings asyour schedule allows.

Contact Joyce Trimble, Club Extension Chair and plan to change a life.

Read how a demo meeting changed her life.

The Helping Hands are experiencedToastmasters who will help youenergize your club for 3-4consecutive meetings.

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For more details, check HelpingHands on the d25 website.

Be a Club Sponsor or MentorAre you pursuing goals on the leadership track?

Serving as a mentor or sponsor can earn you credit towards the AdvancedLeader Silver award.

It’s YOUR journey – consider becoming a sponsor or mentor and giveback in a rewarding way! Questions? Interested? Contact the Club Mentor/Sponsor Chair, JenRomaszewski: jenromaszewski@d25toastmasters.org. Her blog postincludes more details on being a club sponsor or mentor.

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Happy New Year!

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