valuable day that you just lived today
in building your spirit and empowering
yourself to see how you can be better
people more empowered and use your
energy much better today I learnt a lot
from the other speakers and it was very
inspiring for me as well and usually in
my life I learned from my students they
give me a lot of power the thing is we
go to all these conferences in this
world and we just listen get out of the
box get creative
take a risk jump from the window do
whatever and you know you go out from
the room and you go to your car and you
say oh I wish I am creative I wish I can
take a risk I don’t think I can afford
it this is beautiful
this is very nice but not me maybe her
maybe him but not now not me well this
is what I see in the eyes of my students
when I teach them and I don’t treat them
actually as a teacher I treat them as a
fear or somebody who is very close to
them which irritates them a lot by the
way
but it’s fine they get used to it after
the third day so anyway we start
inspiring them and asking them guys we
want you to give good positive ideas to
have a beautiful change what do you
suggest no no no I can’t there is
corruption in my country no no I can’t
there is rules and regulations that I
cannot cross there is this there is thus
there is always this hunger that they
put on it reasons for not to do anything
after few days of talking to them and
actually pushing them out of the room
for the idea because getting the idea is
the most difficult thing get the idea
just tell me the idea I don’t want you
to do anything about it now just tell me
what is the one
think that you would love to change and
you don’t you see it every day and you
don’t like it and it is in your system
and you want just to get rid out of it
so we push them out of the class for one
hour and I take the mobis so no
boyfriends/girlfriends messages pictures
that are just go out and it’s actually
useful for us as well if we once just
take a drive or a walk without any other
element and just watch use your five
senses smell touch look feel it the
things that are around you just for a
walk and they go out around the
university or the place that we are
training at and they come back and they
tell me things that they saw and they
don’t like one of them told me once no
no no this is impossible I cannot do
anything about it
this is my country is very difficult and
that was in Lebanon and we don’t have a
president since three years what are you
talking about this is going to be a
catastrophe to to go there well actually
every problem is an opportunity
sometimes the having the problem is half
of your solution it will make you the
successful person because you know the
solution you just have to take the step
and do it we encourage those students
they come they came back from outside of
the University and the one thing that
she saw and this girl was very very very
naughty girl we call her like very
difficult to deal with very difficult
she doesn’t eat right notes she draws
what she thinks
and she’s very difficult to convince
anyway her name is Maya Maya came back
from after 10 minutes she didn’t
continue one hour she came back and she
said I saw a kid who is eating from the
trash and I was like just at the door of
the universe
and that is in Lebanon the local
superhero days affair so I was like okay
so what can we do about this and she
said while I hope that we can give him
food but why just him why not the others
we kept inspiring her and teaching her
to use the power of partnership so there
is a bunch of restaurants in front of
this university she learned how to do
partnerships with them and Maya came
back to us with 70 partnerships with the
restaurants today after three years she
fed quarter of a million person in
Lebanon she owns her own NGO and we
tried to convince this girl to register
it as a social enterprise so that she
will sustain her life her own expenses
so she has 40 60 from the money that she
gets from where she gets the money some
of the restaurants refused to give the
food they said for food safety I will
not give you the food I will give you
one dollar after every after every
customer or from the pocket of every
customer three months later she called
me and she said Lena I have $30,000 at
home I was like what we are corporate
social responsibility you cannot do this
you have to register and that was and
she registered and she had her own geo
the thing is is in the moment when you
take the risk to fight the system or to
do the meeting or to change something
Maya herself was very difficult in the
first presentation she is the one
student who stood up and said this
country doesn’t have this and this and
this and this and we cannot do anything
and you are Jordanian and you’re here
and you don’t know nothing of what is
happening in love
I was like fine but now her success is
ideal that she is awarded a scholarship
to study in England ten thousand dollars
from King Abdullah in Jordan I don’t
know how many hours from the
institutions in Lebanon she’s like I
need an appointment to talk to her now
so like Maya like this Lida step the one
and the first step is the one thing that
I want you to do today why you don’t do
it
the reason is by nature us the human
being are very stingy
we are stingy even though you think you
are a very generous person and I will
prove it to you just now I want you all
please to take a very deep breath full
out you feel good okay what is the
normal breathing now try to monitor the
normal breathing but this this is how
stingy you are you have the power to
give your body your body not the
neighbors the full capacity to breathe
to give it oxygen to give it power to
get rid positiveness and you only give
it that the only moment that you take a
deep breath is after a problem is
finished a meeting that you wish that
you to get over with but you have it
it’s in your hand and you don’t give it
percentage of oxygen rise more than 60%
in your body positiveness power for all
the body the cycle of the blood is much
better when you don’t do it and the
reason is us being a step a little bit
stingy to ourselves so how we can get
more positive and more generous and how
we can do something furthered and to
push ourselves to take the risk we will
need to think about what do you want
have you ever thought if you are
actually in the right job or in the
right place or with the right husband or
boyfriend or in the right country
sometimes you are there because it’s
it’s there you just I was born Muslim so
I am Muslim I am I was born in the UAE I
stay here I want to do this because this
is what is around you but what actually
actually if you sit with yourself and
you discuss it what do you want
like if the fairy came today
and said what do you want this is
another proof that the human being is
very stingy you wake up in the morning
and you get dressed based on the person
that you’re gonna meet you
design yourself and your perfume based
on the person person that you’re gonna
meet you eat based on the day the person
you’re gonna meet you give him your time
your attention your smiles everything
you have maybe your money even you’ll
invite him or her for lunch or dinner or
maybe it’s a business deal the day your
arms you start you get dressed and and
there is this one second that you look
at at the mirror for a glance not while
you’re making the makeup after that this
one second after you are done with
shaping yourself the way you want and
then you look hmm
this is what I want this is good enough
I’ll live with this and then huge amount
of energy is given for the mom and the
dad and the kids and the husband and the
boss and the people yet everybody that
you meet when you come back home at the
end of the day and the other one second
that you give it to yourself it’s right
before you sleep what’s a good day no I
don’t want to think about it
good night
the end well what I advise you have a
cup of coffee with yourself meet
yourself talk to yourself and try to
understand what do you want the minute
that you know what do you want is the
minute that might change your life and
push you to take the risk I’m not here
talking about taking the risk that you
really need to make a massive change in
your life just make something that makes
you happy happiness is the most
important thing that we all look for and
just take the risk take this small step
it might be actually smaller than you
think very minor thing that might make
you happy I will tell you a story about
Heather Heather also he is a Lebanese
student I’m teaching him now this year
he is from the police from the security
police of Lebanon 25 years old he came
to the class he’s from tirado’s from
tripoli so he came to the class that we
teach at Lacan supérieur des affair
which is a very elite university and
very very expensive but I made sure in
my agreement with the universities to
allow me to bring students from all over
the areas and from all over the country
not only for the ones who can pay
so Heather came over and he attended a
course of ten days about corporate
social responsibility and designing your
own enterprise social business so what
Heather did is he he tried to solve the
problem of environment Lebanon now is
suffering from the trash issues if
you’ve heard about it and they are not
recycling it and there is a government
issue there he live in Tripoli in
Tripoli there is people who suffered
from the war so he picked five men and
five women and he called them the green
men and the green woman and by the way
another means green so I called
the green man so what he did he inspired
5,000 families visiting them all
collecting the trash at night with the
hands of the green men and the green
woman they cleaned the whole area they
taught the families how to recycle he
rented a warehouse on his own from his
money $400 $50 for the car that
collected the trash and he recycled them
with the with those green men and green
women and in one month he made sixteen
thousand dollars in one month what he
did with the money five thousand dollars
he gave it to the green woman five
thousand for the men and five for his
expenses and whatever they needed and he
took one thousand for himself and again
I told you that I inspire people and try
to push them to do something and to do a
social change so this is the social
change that he did and it’s going to be
his company from now on but the
beautiful thing about Heather is that he
actually managed to make a sustainable
income for those people who are who were
jobless without the hand without an eye
and they actually really really really
lost hope in life and from the problem
that is the waste and the trash and the
chaos a solution was created and jobs
and money and happiness and you can’t
believe how proud they are with what
they have done it is our success story
for this year and I would leave you with
a small note for the video
you really want your parents what what
do you want we want do you want what do
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right I hope that today you will have a
little bit of time for yourself and you
will understand what do you want and
make the best out of it thank you [Applause]