In this Toastmasters speech, Jayesh Patel argues that the greatest freedom in life is time freedom – the ability to control one’s own schedule rather than being bound by external demands. He opens by asking the audience whether they would change their lives if they had full control over their time, then shares his personal journey from a constrained automotive career to entrepreneurship, highlighting the frustration of earning money without having time to enjoy it. Patel identifies a pivotal moment when his wife questioned the purpose of trading time for money, prompting him to seek a path to true time independence. He outlines three practical steps to achieve this: (1) never stop learning to increase personal value, (2) invest wealth regularly to let money work for you, and (3) build a business around your passion so work becomes enjoyable rather than a burden. Throughout, he emphasizes that time cannot be created, only better utilized, and urges the audience to commit to these actions to gain the biggest freedom – control over their own time.
Opportunity to listen to him to. To speak about the biggest freedom of life. Okay. So Toastmaster J, are you ready for your speech?
Yes. Is my voice loud and clear to all of you? Yeah.
Very good. Thank you. Now please welcome Toastmaster J. Give his speech in the title the Biggest Freedom of Life.
Thank you. Good evening. So to all Toastmasters members, guest. I need to ask you two questions and I want a very honest answer from all of you. How many of you want to fulfill your dreams with a show of hands? Great. How many of you feel that if you had all the control over the time you could actually change the fate of your life and your career by show of hands? Okay, let me repeat that question once more. If you had all the time available with you could you change the fate of your life and your career from the current situation?
Yes.
Yeah. Okay. So now what we are dealing right now. The topic of my talk today is that what's the biggest freedom in life? And that is time freedom. Because time is one thing which is not available in plenty. You can definitely generate money. You can definitely generate resources. And one thing is certain that we cannot definitely generate time. Because if time was abundant every billionaire on this planet would have bought the time. And every billionaire on the planet would have elongated his lifespan. But we see the reverse. A billionaire is always with money but he always has a finite limit. So here I am jaishpatil. And as Ms. Wanda told I have been moving from a journey of an automotive professional to an entrepreneur. And my biggest learning of the life is what I'm going to present in my topic and speech today. However, my life wasn't like this. My life actually changed me. To understand this greatest freedom of life which is the time freedom. And it began with a simple story that from the past 27 years. From the time I started understanding how the world moves. So from the school days to college to engineering to even jobs there was one thing which I did not have in my life. It was time. I was at the mercy either in the school. I was at the mercy of employers who decided my working hours. Until today, like many of us, I actually started making money on time. And when you make money on something, it's like it's never going to be ending. And that's where brings the topic that how time freedom actually brought me to a brink. That I had to depend for every small thing. Right from even asking for a day off to a vacation to something as simple as taking a time off. And what I could notice was that I was though earning a lot of money. But I was in not control of the time. And what is a life without time if you have all the money in the world, but you can't enjoy your time? So this brought me to a question that what am I living for? And that brought a very sense of unhappiness, fulfillment, non fulfillment in my life. And I could not actually live the life to the fullest. And sometimes it gave me a lot of trouble, sometimes sleepless nights. But that did not end here. As I progressed, I thought things would change. But it didn't happen. As the time went by, I even forgot the idea. And one fine day, my wife reminded me that why are we on this planet? Are we here to fulfill our purpose, our dreams? Or are we here to trade the time with somebody? And boom. Something clicked in my mind. And I said, oh my God. I think that's the biggest challenge of my life. If I don't have a freedom, the biggest freedom of my life is not related to something, what we call money or resources. It's time. Because that's the most precious and the finite thing. And I went deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. And I found a few mentors. I found a lot of areas to work with, a lot of seminars. And slowly and steadily I started discovering that there is a secret path to it. Earlier I used to believe it's impossible. But slow and steadily I discovered a path, A path towards the time freedom. And I'm sure many of you, if you resonate with my story, you would believe that we are told from very start that time freedom is something which is only existing in fables. If you have read the book Ikigai, many people think it's a myth. But slow and steadily. When I started looking deeply into this problem, I found a small success story. And here is an area I believe that like I have discovered a successful path to time freedom. I would like to share it with all of you. How many of you would be eager to learn from my story? Simple three steps, which I believe can make a lot of change in your life. Thank you. So the journey is very simplified. I'll not over complicate the matters. It begins with three steps. First is never stop learning. Because when you learn, you become master at something. You acquire those skills which will make you more valuable. So you won't be trading your time, you would be trading your value. Second is once you make wealth, make sure you invest very regularly. Because in today's world, or in the world before us, the only thing which worked was when we had the money. Working for us. This is where we actually made wealth. And wealth actually is going to give you independence in terms of not working for someone else's dream, but your dream. And last but not the least, the third step in this entire duration is that once you have both of them, please build a successful business around your passion. Because when you build a business around your passion, you can then work for your entire life. You will not feel life as a burden. Now these are the three steps which brought me from somebody who was struggling with time to something now having abundant of time. It's not that I have created more time, but I've utilized it to chase my dreams which has made me more fulfillment. So hope with my story today. Now I have been able to share mark of the success and I hope that you take away this small learning which is be always a learner, invest regularly. And third is build your business around the passion. I think with these three steps, if I have been able to make a change in life, I'm sure you can all be. So I want to leave this question aside. How many of you commit today to actually make a change and create the biggest freedom of your life, the time freedom. Thank you. Over to you dtm vanda.
