GOAL Toastmasters Club

06/17/2026

Doing pays well.

Proverbs 14:23 reminds us: “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.”

The profit may not always be immediate money. Sometimes it is skill. Sometimes it is character. Sometimes it is momentum. But purposeful action always moves us forward.

Today’s assignment is simple: don’t just talk about it. Do something.

Read the full article on Medium:
https://medium.com//do-something-e3a5add34bed?sk=a65d27f0f3d6edd890449e80d1f6d6e0

More resources, articles, workshops, and encouragement:
https://linktr.ee/tomsims

06/08/2026

Some of us create better when we have an assignment. That is not a weakness. It is a workflow.

In this episode of Words Read, Voices Heard / Chat Coaching, I build on my Medium article, “You Can Always Find Something to Say,” and explore how writers, speakers, teachers, preachers, coaches, and creators can turn curiosity into content by treating each day as an assignment.

The idea is simple: take the month and day, search it, scan the events, births, deaths, holidays, observances, feast days, and oddities, then choose one thing that catches your attention. Interest and inspiration are close relatives. What interests you can inspire you, and what inspires you will usually interest you.

From there, the work begins: ask better questions, build a reusable template, gather key words and themes, and turn raw information into an article, talk, podcast, sermon, post, lesson, song seed, or coaching exercise.

The assignment is the doorway.

Full teaching video - https://youtu.be/MTy7ZGlyh0s

Medium companion article:
https://medium.com//you-can-always-find-something-to-say-8f49b505b839?sk=78fbb8ee3f6d700c2c1abeee07739029

Substack companion piece:
https://tomsims.substack.com/p/writing-on-assignment-even-when-you

More links:
https://linktr.ee/tomsims

In this episode

We explore:

How to create when the blank page feels too open
Why some people work better “on assignment”
How the calendar can become a daily prompt machine
Why interest and inspiration are related
Questions to ask about events, people, observances, and texts
How to build your own reusable creative questionnaire
How to turn research into reflection, teaching, and useful content

Reflection / Coaching Questions

What kind of assignment helps you create faster?

Do you work better with open-ended freedom or clear parameters?

What recurring questions could you ask every subject you write or speak about?

What caught your attention today — and what might it become?

Connect

Medium:
https://medium.com/

Substack:
https://tomsims.substack.com/

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/-tom-sims

Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/tomsims

05/24/2026

Some people spend years believing the whole world is against them — when the deeper problem may be the lens through which they are seeing life.

Using John Maxwell’s humorous “Limburger cheese” story, Aesop’s “sour grapes” fable, and reflections on attitude, bitterness, perception, and healing, this short meditation explores how disappointment can slowly become identity — and how changing our perspective can begin changing our lives.

A changed life often begins not with changed circumstances, but with a changed way of seeing.

Tom Sims
Workshops to Go

Resources & Links:
Linktree https://linktr.ee/tomsims'

Medium Companion Article - https://medium.com//when-the-whole-world-smells-bad-ccffb6645b80?sk=2ba4ed0b1b5db06be14aa31ca2228ed6

05/08/2026

Another great Club meeting. Check us out, we have lots of fun. Join us for our next Club Meeting on May 20th @ 6:30 PT 8:30 CT

04/11/2026

Let's consider this as an outreach:

Toastmasters International wants to help you prepare and practice for any upcoming speaking engagement—such as a job interview or work presentation—through i...

12/26/2025

Thoughts as we consider the Beatitudes:

REJOICING AND LEAPING IN LOVE

People had come to the hill to be healed and delivered, and they were, indeed, healed and delivered. Then, they received even more as Jesus began to teach them. Jesus expounded to them the law of love for God and neighbor.

"And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the
kingdom of God."

"Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye
shall laugh."

"Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their
company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake."

"Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the
like manner did their fathers unto the prophets."

These blessings, and the woes that followed, were counterintuitive, counter-cultural, and counter to every notion of reality that people embraced then and embrace now. Yet, they went to the heart of Jesus' teaching.

He taught the people to look for blessings and joy in unexpected places.

A semi-literate preacher of the 1800s misunderstood a text about the l***r, Naaman and
thought it read, “leaper.”

“Naaman was a leaper,” he proclaimed. “He didn’t just walked; he leaped. When there was a job to be done, he leaped to it! You could always count on him; he was an eager beaver!”

That preacher may have been a bit off-base about Naaman, but imagine how that l***r felt
when he was healed. He was filled with joy and gratitude.

Imagine how it might be for us if we took Jesus' Beatitudes seriously and lived by them.

Oh, the joy that awaits us!

12/03/2025

Join our next Toastmaster's meeting tomorrow night. If you are new, join us tomorrow see wgat it is all about. We are blessed to share our faith while gaining skills in public speaking.

11/27/2025

11/09/2025

Meeting our GOALS