ever noticed how we sometimes are
overwhelmed with great things but we
neglect those little things that have
great value
does anyone in the audience know Pico
taro anybody Pico taro oh yeah anybody
nobody okay well I hope you recognize
because I really if not then maybe maybe
you would know this and if you’re a fan
of Justin Bieber you know that this is
his favorite video on the internet so
who would have thought that a pen in an
apple becomes an OP open these are
simple things that I know simple things
that have great value now sometimes we
neglect your words we say but words
matter one of the greatest hits in the
damn Daniel they have been invited to
Ellen show and at the moment they have
300,000 plus retweets about 10 to 15
million views depends on where you
actually get the number Facebook YouTube
or Twitter well I don’t agree
necessarily agree with profound
I can’t neglect or I can’t brush out the
fact that they have given so much
and sometimes or in same with the same
principle with VPAP
and damn Daniel there are little things
in our lives that matters these little
things might be in a form of a question
a question that could change our lives
habits that are neglected that could
cause us harm I have worked with
different NGOs who are bound or
determined to do small things that made
a great impact back in the Philippines I
worked with the movement of a twenty
students it’s a non class nonprofit
organization and a year ago from or a
year before before this picture and I’m
right there a year ago before this
picture there was a terrorist attack in
outside the university a bomb full of
commuters a bus full of commuters was
bombed leaving 11 dead and 43 seriously
wounded five of those who died that day
were students of the university while
the event is devastating it served as an
inspiration to the members of the
movement of avonlea students my advice
your organization at that time advised
the organization it had raised the
question that day and we commend the
efforts of the University
for having been able to control the
crisis manage the crisis very well and
they have been able to control the crowd
during this this bombing but to the
movement of apathy students to these
students in this university the question
that day was what am I that day am i a
spectator taking pictures of dead bodies
posting it in social media without the
sense of responsible journalism or was I
a helpless student don’t know what to do
during the time I suddenly realized
these question is very important to them
that they wanted to help in building the
community they wanted to get in involve
in wherever they are in their small
world and so the leadership of the
organization approached me to form an
emergency response team up at this time
there was no emergency response team in
the area there were trained individuals
but not a proper team after several
months from the bombing they have
trained themselves and this is what they
have become they have spent their summer
training themselves to have the
necessary skills to respond to every
emergency situation they contacted the
government and the government centre the
whole rescue team to train them in the
last year when I was with them they have
responded to three major three major
accidents and few minor ones they don’t
have sophisticated equipments and their
skills are limited to
bandaging splinting and proper patient
transports but they could and they could
do little but they were willing to be
part and make a big impact in the
community
I remember one Saturday morning when a
colleague of mine called me that there
was an accident
about four kilometers away from where we
are as an emergency response team we
have a 5-minute road be there at the
scene in five minutes and so we loaded
whatever equipments that we have during
the time and then we went to the scene
we arrived there when we got there we
called the government rescue we as
assess the patient or the the victim who
was actually stuck in between two
vehicles who have collided so we knew
and into two things that will easily
build out during an accident would be
the crowd and the traffic I mean I think
we we all know that and we knew that we
will be there for a while and for a
while means we will be there for a few
hours under the midday Sun on a tropical
country so commuters people traveling so
and have noticed that the emergency
response team were actually student
volunteers and they started giving
snacks water and whatever they can hand
to the people around I mean the
emergency response team by this time the
emergency response team volunteers would
have been probably burned and so
exhausted
we were on our dress shirts and
directing profits and controlling the
crowd so that the rescue team could
actually do what they were they can the
devastation of the accident has created
a ripple of kindness and a call to
action to many other people around that
day and it all started with a little
idea of creating an emergency response
team many of these students many of the
volunteer the volunteer emergency
response members of the team were
actually students who could not go to
school
who were living with at least $10 among
food and school supplies included that’s
about 20,000 – Brooke but their
financial status was never a hindrance
for them to make or to show their big
what am i that day was I a spectator was
I a student trembling or was I a person
bold enough to actually help out and
what they were under situation the
experiences of our lives our daily
experiences may not be as big as the
story with the emergency response team
but little things in our lives matter
and just like the students in my story
we can make a difference we can make a
by making a decision to do little things
that actually matters in understanding
how little things affect the bigger
picture
I’d like to imagine I’d like everyone to
imagine spending at least two hours in
front of your TV and I know that we need
to be informed I know that we need to do
to communicate but one I’m trying to
point out here are unproductive leisure
time to at least two hours every day so
let’s try to do the math two hours for
seven days equals fourteen hours and if
we spend two hours for thirty days one
month we have spent sixty hours or two
and a half day right just in front of
our TV our computer or doing
unproductive leisure time and if we
spend two hours every day for one year
the 365 days we get 370 hours or 30 days
well I guess everybody won’t agree that
we will sit right in front of our TV or
our computers for one month doing just
that another example of little things
that actually matters is our health
habits we know that our body is 70%
water and the general recommendation is
eight glasses of water about two liters
now imagine that we have 1 liter deficit
every day so that would be 7 liters
there will be 7 1 liter per day 7 liters
per week 30 liters a month 365 liter
a year and that’s about ninety-one
gallons of deficiency now see how little
things little deficiency actually
matters and for therefore others would
lead to dehydration in the calculate
calculation we just looked at we are
losing a month every year that means we
because we are just because we wanted to
entertain ourselves or we are losing 91
gallons of water deficit because we just
forgot to drink water so these are
little things that actually makes a
difference both in our time in our lives
in the lives of others and in the lives
of the people in our community
now these goes the little things goes
from our finances to emotions to
those little things matter so I would
like to share to you some suggestions on
how little things or and how we can do
little things that will make a big
difference number one be useful be
useful your community needs you maybe
just a smile maybe just hello to someone
who who is actually in despair or
probably hello to your sit mates right
now that you don’t know be useful like
the emergency response team that I
worked in the Philippines they didn’t
have a lot they only have $10 a month to
live by some of them are hard time
working and some of them are working
to go to school but it shouldn’t change
our desire to be useful in our community
even to this day those students are
still responding to emergencies around
their community second be faithful
I remember one quotation from one
prominent American author Ellen gold
white she said the greatest want of this
world is the want of men men who will
not be bought or sold men who in their
inmost soul are true and honest men
whose fear who do not fear to call
wrongs by his right name men who will
stand for the right though the heavens
fall be faithful to your core values be
faithful to honesty to loving to
kindness to respect to others be
faithful to your core values third be
intentional about the little things the
change in your life starts today it
sounds cliche but it is true every big
decision starts today
every small every big things starts from
very small beginnings a single idea
could make a big difference a single
idea or a small step you take today
might prepare you for a greater future
that habit when controlled might just
equip you for the next challenge so
every penny we spent could make a big
and probably every Inger that is
terrorist would become a luggage for you
to carry and ladies and gentlemen
mostly with regrets little things matter [Applause]