the first one month so what is a new
resolution it is an idea that shapes and
reflects you in a better way can be
considered a newer resolution so when
should people make new year resolutions
well it’s not right when you wait
waiting miraculously for the calendar to
flip to change your life is absurd and
defies logic only 10% of the population
is successful in achieving their new
year resolution the rest 90% are trapped
in their comfort zone so will this be a
courageous year for me
well that is a decision I get to make
every single day I wake up courage is
the decision and that is what I that is
what I want you to make today make this
year I’ve come to the conclusion that
this year may be the hardest I have to
work in my entire life
it may not be true but I’d like to think
of it like that 80% of the people
sitting in this room will either leave
this country we call home or this school
to go and pursue their dreams
I hope my speech they will give wings to
those dreams let me ask you all a
question
how many of you all plan to be
self-employed or be picked up by the
fortune 500 companies the answer to that
is we are always we will always be
self-employed
from the day we are first hired to the
day we retire we all work for ourselves
no matter who signs our paychecks so
what does that mean for you for you that
means you might start a new business
that might mean you’re gonna start write
a new book ask new questions take that
leap of faith face those fears but go
this year progress this year push this
year long before the iPhone was made
Steve Jobs launched his tech career by
hacking landlines and making free long
distance phone calls behind every
success story there is an embarrassing
first effort a stumble
back a radical change of direction but
for me it’s those first few embarrassing
steps to fame and fortune that really
fascinate me change your mindset change
those statistics when you wake up
tomorrow the canvas of your life is
blank you get to paint a completely
different picture than you’ve ever
painted before your past does not equal
your future rectify your mistakes and
input and imbibe the discipline into
your life and everything will work out
if your plan doesn’t work change the
plan but never change the goal rectify
your mistakes and put new disciplines
and everything will happen sorry I just
repeated that don’t worry about your
past live your present to change the
future life is not meant to be lived in
your comfort zone for you and I did not
come here today to be the same every day
we have to be different we have to do
different things and think outside of
the box
another small example JK Rowling
a single mother on state benefits to a
multi-millionaire today is one of the
reasons no a single mother on state
benefits to a multi-million mil a
multi-millionaire today is one of the
reasons why she she she was successful
because what exactly happened was she
she worked hard she put in all her
effort and she wrote her books believing
that it will sell so what does that give
us that means we all have hidden talents
we just have to find it and allow it to
bloom sometimes we need that extra
something inside of us that makes us
want to change because there are only
two things that can change your life
either someone new comes into your life
and maybe a new friend a new teacher or
something new comes in from within a
fire in your belly
a fire in your belly something inside of
you that is saying this has to be a
different year for me I am going to make
this a different year for me and you
will realize that when you have more
mornings in which you wake up and you
look at your calendar and you know you
have that thing that intimidates and
scares you but in reality you are going
to go and engage that and never back
away
now I’m gonna give you a short life
experience or a small small life story
of mine it was July 22nd I was fourteen
years old it was a day before our trip
to Kenya what happened that day changed
my outlook for the rest of my life we
went swimming four of us me and my
friends into a swimming pool
we like normal teenagers started to have
fun shooting water guns splashing around
but as time passed on we decided to play
a game a game that would change my
outlook for the rest of my life
who could stay underwater the longest
first my friend went in he stayed in for
a minute my next friend went in he
stayed in for a minute and 30 seconds it
was my turn me being my pompous and
arrogant self decided to outdo everyone
and so what I did was when I went
underwater I held the ladder not
realizing that was a biggest mistake
I’ve ever made after one minute and 30
seconds I decided to come up to the
surface realizing that I was stuck I
couldn’t come up to the surface after
two minutes my friends realizing
something was amiss decided to pull me
out to cut a long story short what
exactly happened was I spent the next
seven days in an intensive care unit it
was a new life and it was a better me it
changed my outlook forever now I would
like to talk about now now I would like
to talk about how you could you could um
how could you could how you could take
the speech and implement this into your
life so for me began when I just moved
from I really really want this to hold
on this is non-negotiable it’s time for
me to it began first when I went from
it’s time for me to move from
non-negotiable to move it from I’d like
it to happen no matter what and it has
it has to happen make every obstacle an
opportunity and success comes to those
who let goes of their fears and soars above them thank you