【Opening】

You must know Doreen, the senior member in our club who has just celebrated for her baby's 100 days party. New mothers in my wechat are just the same, they cheers for almost everything happens on their babies. “Today, my babe can sleep all night!”, ”My babe can rise his head!”, “My babe can eat with hands”, “My babe smiles all the time!”……

This sounds funny to us but are seriously important to babies. Actually, parents are the first confidence generator to their babies. Although babies cannot understand the words, they have sensitive feelings that can feel the love and encouragement to be confidence and curious with the world. So, If a parent is so strict or overprotect to their babies, they deliver a fear feeling to them that will limited their imaginary.

However, as we grown up, we tend to be more independent, develop new demands that need different confidence generators at different stage of life. For example, my mother has recently been very proud of me successfully finding a job in a big company which I myself didn’t think was an outstanding achievement worth such a big appreciation. Her encouragement therefore did not impact my level of confidence at all. At different life stage, we need different things to make us feel confident, like good scores at school, good performance at work... But family generators are always simple, all they hope is that you could be healthy, happy and stable.

【Body】

I switched my major at my second year of university from engineering to marketing hoped to train my thought of analysis. Before that, I was a 6-years science student with above-average score as my confidence generator. I was used to the visible performance, like being the top 5% among the grade till the first year in university.

However, the new major has no exams but teamwork and case study, teachers scored the homework with personal criteria into three grades:outstanding, standard, and low-quality. It seems that my visible confidence generator is useless and most of the time a standard score confused me a lot…If I was just a midium student in the new major? Did I make the right choice?

While I was in my low point, I met a group of people in 706 Youth Club. I saw the various possibility of life no matter you are with good score or not and the comfort of being oneself instead of compared with others to define personal improvement. I started to change my idea and demand of being a top student but I joined the club as a long-term volunteer and organized a speech salon as a my first marketing practice.

This platform offered me chances to make some difference also mistakes. By reset the procedure with the new positioning “Give me three minutes,find your own style of communication”, make regular promotions, improve member's experiences, package up operation knowledge, we successfully push it into other cities like Tianjin and Xi’an. I gained my confidence as a marketer here. 706 Youth Club is the very important confidence generator in the university.

【Ending】

Last year, I find the need to be more professional not only for communication but also for my career life. So, it is a new life stage and is time to update my confidence generator. Luckily enough, I met you guys, my dear toastmasters, that offer me not only chances for practice, but also cheers for every countable milestones. I don’t know how far I could be, I only hope this could be a life-long confidence generator.