[Applause]
when we think about mentorship we often
have this idea in our minds that it is
some esoteric idea where only people who
have achieved a certain level of success
or have certain accolades attributable
to they name that can partake in this
activity which is quite interesting and
what was quite personal to me because
you see growing up I found myself in a
situation where all I saw around me were
people who are struggling financially
people who didn’t have you know an
ambitious outlook on life but at the
same time I didn’t have any view of what
I wanted for the future I didn’t know
how to access a mentor or anything
successful so mentorship and success has
to take on a more lateral approach we
have to stop looking at it as this
incline where it’s the haves and the
have-nots and it’s this have-nots person
that’s always just pinching up and
begging and hoping to find a mentor from
someone who’s achieved success we have
to find success amongst ourselves so in
doing this I wanted to challenge this
idea of this mentorship and I said why
can’t the youth why can’t an
inexperienced individual channel and
mentor another because what is a mentor
fundamentally it’s an individual a
friend who just wants to bring out the
best in somebody else and I think this
is a very exciting idea as it shows us
that each and every one of us in this
room can and must be a mentor and in my
youth program me we I focus on building
mentors I focus on me with the purpose
of building a we so what we do is we
focus on two key
who are you no really who are you not
where you went to school not where you
come from but who are you at your core
how have those experiences shaped who
you are what emotions do you attach to
the experiences that you have we are
often told that we must live
passionately follow your passion follow
what you love but we are never told how
to find what we love how to find our
passion and we cannot find this in a
university in a work environment we find
this from our past experiences and from
what we feel this is very exciting to me
so I always work from the starting point
I hope my mentors my mentees find out
what are the key experiences in their
life that they control what we call
specialized knowledge from special
knowledge knowledge gives the idea that
that’s knowledge that you have for
yourself that nobody else has and can
experience for you what do you want now
that we’ve established who we are and
where we come from and where we
currently stand it’s important for us to
have a vision for the future a clear and
compelling vision for the future where
are we going how does what we went
through influenced what we want this is
passionate living and if you look at the
spectrum when you have who you are and
what you want there’s a very significant
gap in between and what we often think
about is that you know we achieve
success when we have those accolades
when we get that job when you reach that
level of financial security however
that’s a very limited view it’s
important for us to feel successful in
our pursuit of success so I have
redefined success especially for the
purpose of my mentees to mean the
following success is the active pursuit
of a worthy ideal it’s important for you
to understand that for as long as you
actively engage in
pursuit of what you want the most what
brings out the fire in you the most you
should and must feel successful and this
is the role of Amenti
to catalyze and to facilitate the
process from who you are and where you
are to what you want this is the idea
this is why I say I have a hundred year
plan the idea behind this is not that I
want to be around necessarily a hundred
years from now but it’s because of
chasing that dream of what I want to
leave behind after I’m gone now another
person might feel that I cannot feel
successful because if I’m chasing
something that’s far beyond my living
years then I should never feel
successful but if you redefine and look
at the definition it’s the active
pursuit of a where the ideal therefore
to be successful all you have to do is
actively pursue your worthy ideal so I
want to tell you two stories of why
mentorship is important I want to tell
you about two young men on the one hand
we have was Tim bezel symbaloo is a
young man very charismatic young man but
he’s labeled a troublemaker talks a lot
in class you know a typical troublemaker
sits at the back of the class always
disrupting the class so much so that
he’s always victimized by his teachers
one particular incident the teachers
stopped the lecture and he proceeded to
publicly embarrass whose timbi so in
front of the class telling him that he
will never amount to anything and that
should he become a leader or pointers as
as a school leader in the following year
he will publicly disrupt the
prize-giving ceremony now to understand
the significance of this well to look at
the domino effect what happens next
Simba so goes on fortunatelly gets
caught up with the wrong crowd doesn’t
get to finish his tertiary education and
struggles with drug addiction
now this leads to a host of problems
family problems falling out with his
mother and his brothers and sisters and
feels like a failure on the other hand
we have a completely different outcome
from the same situation we have opulence
an individual who’s very shy keeps to
himself but is is someone that latches
on positivity is always looking for the
positive outcomes in life doesn’t do so
well at school but everyone seems to
like him tests certain leadership skills
so he hones those leadership skills and
he makes it far enough to get University
and do well there and work for an
amazing company
timbi saw opulence loo BC is the name of
my biological brother my brother
struggled with drug addiction for the
better part of ten years he struggled
because of the situation that we found
ourselves in as kids we grew up in a
household where it wasn’t uncommon for
for my mother and father to be engaged
in you know public disputes and fights
this made it particularly tough for us
because we grew up in a commune where
everyone could hear and see what was
going on and without guidance without
the proper guidance this leads the child
to develop traits that they might not
have necessarily had from the beginning
the drugs and all these things are just
an escape from that reality it’s an
expression of that pain opulence on the
other hand is the boy you see standing
in front of you from the same situation
I chose to latch on to his low
positivity as I had growing up I
remember one incident where my father
told me that odd amount I wouldn’t
amount to anything more than a drug
addict
had to push through I found my mentors
on the internet YouTube Eric Thomas Tony
Robbins these are people I latched on to
for positivity they kept me going so I
made a decision that I cannot allow this
to happen I cannot allow the millions
and thousands of children who just need
guidance who just need a push in the
right direction to be derailed and find
themselves in situations where they are
completely different from what they
started out as situations where they
can’t even recognize their own potential
anymore situations that are that are
just hopeless for them so I started this
mentorship group as a life mission of
mine as understanding why am I fed off
the pain I fed off the frustration and
decided to create a new vision for
myself an inspired passion for myself
where I am committed to making sure that
I leave no stone unturned I mentor as
many kids as I possibly can it costs you
nothing just to share some words of
positivity it costs you nothing just to
lend a helping hand to someone in need
buy them a book spend two hours of your
time with them tell them about your
stories how amazing everything that
you’re doing is it really helps the
domino effect is incredible and my call
to action here is to inspire you no no
it’s to plea to you it’s simply to you
to please take the the initiative to to
mentor every single child that you have
every single student that you see these
days we don’t have to go any further
than our nearest tertiary institution
for you to see the broken dreams for you
to see the frustration the cries we need
to answer they need you we need you I
need you
you
[Applause]
when we think about mentorship we often
have this idea in our minds that it is
some esoteric idea where only people who
have achieved a certain level of success
or have certain accolades attributable
to they name that can partake in this
activity which is quite interesting and
what was quite personal to me because
you see growing up I found myself in a
situation where all I saw around me were
people who are struggling financially
people who didn’t have you know an
ambitious outlook on life but at the
same time I didn’t have any view of what
I wanted for the future I didn’t know
how to access a mentor or anything
successful so mentorship and success has
to take on a more lateral approach we
have to stop looking at it as this
incline where it’s the haves and the
have-nots and it’s this have-nots person
that’s always just pinching up and
begging and hoping to find a mentor from
someone who’s achieved success we have
to find success amongst ourselves so in
doing this I wanted to challenge this
idea of this mentorship and I said why
can’t the youth why can’t an
inexperienced individual channel and
mentor another because what is a mentor
fundamentally it’s an individual a
friend who just wants to bring out the
best in somebody else and I think this
is a very exciting idea as it shows us
that each and every one of us in this
room can and must be a mentor and in my
youth program me we I focus on building
mentors I focus on me with the purpose
of building a we so what we do is we
focus on two key
who are you no really who are you not
where you went to school not where you
come from but who are you at your core
how have those experiences shaped who
you are what emotions do you attach to
the experiences that you have we are
often told that we must live
passionately follow your passion follow
what you love but we are never told how
to find what we love how to find our
passion and we cannot find this in a
university in a work environment we find
this from our past experiences and from
what we feel this is very exciting to me
so I always work from the starting point
I hope my mentors my mentees find out
what are the key experiences in their
life that they control what we call
specialized knowledge from special
knowledge knowledge gives the idea that
that’s knowledge that you have for
yourself that nobody else has and can
experience for you what do you want now
that we’ve established who we are and
where we come from and where we
currently stand it’s important for us to
have a vision for the future a clear and
compelling vision for the future where
are we going how does what we went
through influenced what we want this is
passionate living and if you look at the
spectrum when you have who you are and
what you want there’s a very significant
gap in between and what we often think
about is that you know we achieve
success when we have those accolades
when we get that job when you reach that
level of financial security however
that’s a very limited view it’s
important for us to feel successful in
our pursuit of success so I have
redefined success especially for the
purpose of my mentees to mean the
following success is the active pursuit
of a worthy ideal it’s important for you
to understand that for as long as you
actively engage in
pursuit of what you want the most what
brings out the fire in you the most you
should and must feel successful and this
is the role of Amenti
to catalyze and to facilitate the
process from who you are and where you
are to what you want this is the idea
this is why I say I have a hundred year
plan the idea behind this is not that I
want to be around necessarily a hundred
years from now but it’s because of
chasing that dream of what I want to
leave behind after I’m gone now another
person might feel that I cannot feel
successful because if I’m chasing
something that’s far beyond my living
years then I should never feel
successful but if you redefine and look
at the definition it’s the active
pursuit of a where the ideal therefore
to be successful all you have to do is
actively pursue your worthy ideal so I
want to tell you two stories of why
mentorship is important I want to tell
you about two young men on the one hand
we have was Tim bezel symbaloo is a
young man very charismatic young man but
he’s labeled a troublemaker talks a lot
in class you know a typical troublemaker
sits at the back of the class always
disrupting the class so much so that
he’s always victimized by his teachers
one particular incident the teachers
stopped the lecture and he proceeded to
publicly embarrass whose timbi so in
front of the class telling him that he
will never amount to anything and that
should he become a leader or pointers as
as a school leader in the following year
he will publicly disrupt the
prize-giving ceremony now to understand
the significance of this well to look at
the domino effect what happens next
Simba so goes on fortunatelly gets
caught up with the wrong crowd doesn’t
get to finish his tertiary education and
struggles with drug addiction
now this leads to a host of problems
family problems falling out with his
mother and his brothers and sisters and
feels like a failure on the other hand
we have a completely different outcome
from the same situation we have opulence
an individual who’s very shy keeps to
himself but is is someone that latches
on positivity is always looking for the
positive outcomes in life doesn’t do so
well at school but everyone seems to
like him tests certain leadership skills
so he hones those leadership skills and
he makes it far enough to get University
and do well there and work for an
amazing company
timbi saw opulence loo BC is the name of
my biological brother my brother
struggled with drug addiction for the
better part of ten years he struggled
because of the situation that we found
ourselves in as kids we grew up in a
household where it wasn’t uncommon for
for my mother and father to be engaged
in you know public disputes and fights
this made it particularly tough for us
because we grew up in a commune where
everyone could hear and see what was
going on and without guidance without
the proper guidance this leads the child
to develop traits that they might not
have necessarily had from the beginning
the drugs and all these things are just
an escape from that reality it’s an
expression of that pain opulence on the
other hand is the boy you see standing
in front of you from the same situation
I chose to latch on to his low
positivity as I had growing up I
remember one incident where my father
told me that odd amount I wouldn’t
amount to anything more than a drug
addict
had to push through I found my mentors
on the internet YouTube Eric Thomas Tony
Robbins these are people I latched on to
for positivity they kept me going so I
made a decision that I cannot allow this
to happen I cannot allow the millions
and thousands of children who just need
guidance who just need a push in the
right direction to be derailed and find
themselves in situations where they are
completely different from what they
started out as situations where they
can’t even recognize their own potential
anymore situations that are that are
just hopeless for them so I started this
mentorship group as a life mission of
mine as understanding why am I fed off
the pain I fed off the frustration and
decided to create a new vision for
myself an inspired passion for myself
where I am committed to making sure that
I leave no stone unturned I mentor as
many kids as I possibly can it costs you
nothing just to share some words of
positivity it costs you nothing just to
lend a helping hand to someone in need
buy them a book spend two hours of your
time with them tell them about your
stories how amazing everything that
you’re doing is it really helps the
domino effect is incredible and my call
to action here is to inspire you no no
it’s to plea to you it’s simply to you
to please take the the initiative to to
mentor every single child that you have
every single student that you see these
days we don’t have to go any further
than our nearest tertiary institution
for you to see the broken dreams for you
to see the frustration the cries we need
to answer they need you we need you I
need you
you
[Applause]
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