Road Less Traveled

Hi!

I hadn't thought I'd ever post something directly related to my role as a Division Governor in Toastmasters, but today I can't help it. Today, we had a District Executive Committee meeting during which I gave this report. Basically, I read "Road Less Traveled" by Robert Frost:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

Why did I read this fanstatic poem about choices? Simple. Because that's what we all do every day and I thought it was relevant. The Gila Division Area Governors and I made the choice to have all five Area contests on one day, staggered by 90 minutes and alternating buildings on Intel's Ocotillo campus. Personally, I thought it worked out great! Others absolutely hated it!!

At first, I was going to defend our choice in my report. Instead, I decided to point out (albeit in a round-about way) that we all make choices. People don't always choose their circumstances, but they choose how to react to them. I think this is a lesson we should all try to remember from time to time...

Thanks,
Matt