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Change Begins With You | Azizi Mohamedi Mumwi | TEDxUMSKAL


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you remember when was the last time you
actually saw heat in the street who is
talented potentials and they ended up
being lost in the streets so I was born
and raised in Tanzania and East African
country growing up in a typical African
neighborhood our lives are shaped
determined by the beliefs tradition and
norms of the societies that surround us
so when I was growing up I witnessed
many of my friends who are talented
they have potentials and they ended up
being lost deep in the streets I mean
you would accept expect someone who is
talented
they have potentials and determination
from a young age to reach a certain
level in their lives a certain level
where they can actually impact their
communities with positivity and cause
some real changes in a society why that
didn’t happen why everybody when you are
born you are a young keep you are a kid
you try to take your first aim
everybody’s excited they are cheering
you how they giving you hope to take
that first step and step to a better
stage instead to a brighter future
instead to a new levels of hope and
possibilities in the course of growing
up this same baby will start losing home
be disappointed be hopeless and having
nothing to do at all
because we’re the grower we face the
real world the world of positivity and
negativity success and failures
encouragement and disappointment and
most of all we got confused we got lost
and we end up feel lost deep in the
streets today in Africa the average age
of the good population of the continent
it’s 18 years per person the population
of our period people if you have people
who are not determined who have lost
their dreams who have potentials and
talents that they can take them to the
next level who can’t use their skills
and knowledge ease to change the
communities and breathe the best out of
community what are we preparing for when
I joined University Malaysia Sabah I’d
say I’m going to do something I have to
do something because I witnessed it I
come from a place where you cannot try a
new thing because nobody have done it
before I’m coming from a place where
when you try to be different to be
unique you get more by doing that you
get more by being yourself people will
turn you into a job by trying to use
your talent and from a streets where a
professional skill talented footballer
will be discouraged to carry with a
profession because it will not appear in
school so we are living in a society
where
set rules it’s like there’s a certain
formula for success you have to follow
this way to be successful don’t do this
because nobody has done it before it
will not wait for you I come from a
place where people will please consider
as my people why is this because we grew
up in preset beliefs and principles that
doesn’t cause much changes in our
society even a small piece of using your
voice to change other people’s life even
using body language any other part of
your body in influencing the positive
changed in a community we have lost the
courage I started berea motivation
because I want to cause a change in my
community I want to speak up I want to
stimulate the spirit that lies in young
people if you were able to take your
first step because they cheer you up
they encourage you you believe it was a
positive step you believe he was except
to make towards change it was a stage of
growth you can still take a step ahead
today instead to work positivity and the
world of possibilities a step towards a
bright future where did this ideology
come from that you have to see with one
thing and
ignore all the passions and interests
that you have ever breathed in your life
you chose nigga managed to be born
successfully actor and a great
politician why not you why do you think
because they asked you to be a doctor
then you have to give up all your acting
skills your communication skills your na
until you to stick with one thing who
brought that principle that’s why I have
to go back to the streets use my voice
to drive them and go after there please
my real motivation won’t tell you what
to do but want to stimulate you to
encourage you and give you the courage
to go after what you want to accomplish
in your life even now everybody in this
room have imagined purpose they want to
fulfill in their life gods in short-term
and long hands but it’s very sad that
very few people manage to achieve or the
actual plan to achieve in their lives
and the problem is we get lost we can
confuse few people align themselves into
the world of positivity false
encouragement and possibilities the
majority are drawn into negativities
failures disappointment and
discouragement the natural human being
is risk daring having a wheel
but all this needs some external force
an internal force to change to the
original you because you are happy with
the mass of negativities failure
disappointment you have to discover and
shows what inside you and you have to
believe what inside you is possible and
beautiful when you believe that your
ideas are possible and beautiful and
they can cause and really change in a
community there is not force that can
stop you toward chasing your dreams
there is no examples that will pull you
back and make you step back so but I
started speaking all this invitation
came into life things that didn’t exist
before
okay you you producing motivational
videos you speak English you are an
African Tanzanian your national language
is so needy when you look at it it
looked like a real reason but if you
stay quiet you didn’t start doing any
movement nobody could come up with an
idea why don’t you stretch motivational
speaking and do all your box in Swahili
no belukha once you ransack your
potential the obstacles come into life
all the limitations you have to show
focus determination in the wheel to
chase your dreams the reason seems to be
strong but it doesn’t exist
if you cannot change a life to where you
are right now
how can you cause a change of life to
people
from you change begins with you and to
where you live
living in a community that speaks
English
Bassam alive I have to start causing a
change to where other people say you are
doing motivational speaking what did you
achieve with life so big that you want
to inspire people I remember when I was
visiting one second in school in Sabah I
was giving a talk motivational speaker
is about passion is about dry is about
touching really life situation that
people are going through is about giving
them more encouragement to keep going to
believe that what they believe is
beautiful and possible and so some kids
were crying and from that day I realized
how powerful words can be how big the
impact can because by words if you speak
by magic
if you speak people’s lives we are all
human beings most people are going
through similar situations in life so I
want to tell you today whatever reason
you have whatever obstacle you have any
excuses that you have been making that
we that you are having is possible and
you can live your dreams if you give up
all the excuses all the limitations and
you break through towards chasing your
dreams it’s possible discouragement will
come and yes they will come if it was
easy everybody to be successfully we
keep talking about the 21 21 percent of
the
many people have met it the risk-takers
where’s everybody else we have to know
not even a friend not even a family
member can have the same feeling that
you are feeling deep down your heart the
real drive hands from you
the real question comes from you so when
you decide to take an action when you
decide to make a change and take a
hundred percent responsibilities that’s
where the success will come it’s a
process just like how the baby was
struggling to take a first step and then
walk and then run that’s how it goes the
only thing that you have to burn your
mind is to develop this kind of dreams
and ideas it can come to life
it means commitment proper mindset
company people who surround you most
poison comes from our friends that
doesn’t believe in us which is okay but
if they doesn’t believe in you and you
don’t believe in yourself that’s your
aunt having a dream and a fear is a bet
of Life a fear doesn’t exist is a
thought you say what if this happened
but it hasn’t happened yet so you can
actually defeat your fear if you know
the value of your dreams if you know
what’s so important
if you won’t live that dream we have to
start by identifying what is the major
chakras in our life what is this that
you want to achieve after knowing that
nothing will ever stop me thank you very
much
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