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I gave this speech during my previous Toastmasters meeting.

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My fellow Toastmasters & Guest,

We are living in a very complex world. Most of the things that are happening around us is based on a very complex system that are working together helping us to live a better life. Let me take a personal computer or commonly known as a PC for an example. About 20 years ago, it is not common to see a PC in most of our homes. But now, it has become an essential tool in our life and even some homes have more than 1 PC.

Even though a PC is relatively an easy tool to use but in the inside, a very complex system is working silently. The moment you press the start button, it will trigger the power supply to send electrical current to drive the processor which is the brain of the PC to process signals or data and send them to a detector to project the image we can see on the monitor screen. Thank God, someone has simplified the usage of a PC if not; imagine the hassle all of us have to go through or maybe we will not use it at all.

The point that I would like to share in my speech today is just make our life simple. If a computer did not evolved from its start up size as big as this room or maybe bigger to relatively smaller as what we have now, I’m sure the word PC will not exist. Unfortunately, living in this complex world has influenced us to think that complexity is a way of life. Even though evolution has simplified things such as computers, handphones and many more but evolution did the opposite to us. We have evolved from a simple life thousand of years ago to a very complex life in this 21st century. Even our body itself consists of many complex systems and so do our mind. The way we think is already a complex process and logically as a result our action will definitely be complex too. Fortunately, it is not impossible to make our life simple if we know how.

What I’m going to share next is something practical & fundamental which I call the process as F.O.R or FOR.

F is for Facts, O means Organize and R is for Reflect.

Whenever you want to simplify a solution to a problem, breakdown the problem into simple steps. Start by understanding the problem based on the facts which is the F. For example, if you are not getting the promotion that you supposed to get after working hard to complete an important assignment, rather than being upset and demotivated which will make your problem to be complex, why not talk to your boss about it to actually know why you are not getting that promotion. Do your facts finding.

Next O for organize comes in when you start to make arrangement with your boss to talk about your dissatisfaction. Clearly state why you think you deserved that promotion then let your boss talk. Ask for clarification if you don’t understand. Even though your boss can come out with many logical or illogical explanation, don’t make any conclusion yet until you reflect on the facts which is the R.

Later spend some time to reflect on the facts and also share with your close friends or love ones to get their feedback. With that, make a decision either to improve and wait for next round of promotion or if the facts does not make sense, then it is time to look somewhere else that can provide what you want.

Using these simple steps: F.O.R will prevent you to complicate your problem. Imagine if you don’t organize your facts finding and reflect on them, you might acted foolishly by arguing with your boss which will kill your career. So simplify your problem by doing F.O.R.

I would like to end my speech with a story I read sometime ago about a team in NASA whom for the first time wanted to send astronauts to a space station. The challenge the team had is due to no gravity in the outer space, it is impossible to write with a normal pen. So rather than looking for a simple solution, they spent million of dollars and several months to invent a special pen that can work in the outer space. Meanwhile the Russian team who also had the same problem resorted to a very simple solution that doesn’t cost much by just using a pencil. They just look at the facts, organize and reflect on them.

So my fellow Toastmasters & Guest, just do F.O.R to make our life simple.

Thank you.