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My Life's Journey

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In my dream last night, I asked God this question, “Lord, how many times can I live in this world?” Then He responded, “Son, I am only giving each and every person a chance to live once in this world”. And then I asked, “Why just one life my Lord? If you could give me at least three chances to live in this world, I would have more time to correct my mistakes.” Then God said, “Your goal in this world is to live once in order to give chance to others who maybe better than you”.

My fellow Toastmasters, good evening! Let me share to you my personal point of view on how we can weave our past, present and future in order to make use of the short life that we have on Earth and turn it to something that God can be proud of by utilizing our God-given …show more content…

One technique that I use to plan for my life is to plot my life’s journey timeline in a big spreadsheet showing the different accomplishments in the past, present and the plans for the future. To live once means giving more importance to what you want your life to achieve. One way to give value to your life is to plot a timeline of your journey just like an autobiography. But, unlike an autobiography, a “ timeline” not your facebook timeline but a life journey timeline which can show us the big picture of what we want to achieve in the coming years till the end of our life. My fellow toastmasters, I’m going to tell you what all things include in l life journey timeline. a life journey timeline has six major …show more content…

This is the time when a person can appreciate his life.i want my retirement at the age of 67 – 68

Celebration of Old Age (COA) – this is the time from POR to EOL wherein you are just waiting to die and at the same time enjoying the fruits of your labor maybe thru your family or touring around the world or helping other people.

End of Life (EOL) – is the ideal time your life will end (i.e., death). Of course, no one knows when we will die. But, I believe God can give us enough time as long as we pray for it. As shown in my astronomy according to these astrologers my death age is 86 years and I don’t believe that but I know death will come one day.

My fellow toastmasters, I have just shared to you what all stages are in lifeand my personal point of view on how important it is to live once because we live only oce and its in our hands how to utilize the time in our life*. To end my speech, I truly believe that we will only live once- but if we work it right, once is

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