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The power of you | Ariel Rosita King | TEDxSfax


if I am NOT for myself who will be for
me but if I am only for myself what am i
if not now then when these are words of
hello and I realized through my lifetime
that there’s something missing and
what’s missing is if not me then so if
I’m not for myself who would be for me
while I go through some of this
presentation I want you to let your mind
recede back and the ideas that you have
in your head and open up your mind not
your heart I would say and your soul to
receive enter and to listen and to hear
with your soul and not just your
intellect today I’m going to tell you a
very short story about the beggar and
the treasure and the treasure okay today
I’m going to tell you a story about the
beggar and the treasure there is a baker
that sat on the road thank you thank you
so remember that’s okay we can deal with
technology we’re still here together
there was a beggar that sat on the road
and he sat on the road for more than
thirty years on a really quite shabby
box he sat there for thirty years trying
to figure out how to make his dreams
come true by begging for pennies as you
know after thirty years of begging he
didn’t really have very much one day a
young man walked past him and as he did
with everybody else he said excuse me
can you spare some change some pennies
and as a young man he had much to offer
but he didn’t have any money and he said
I’m really sorry but I don’t have money
but what are you sitting on there
and the older man is dismissive it’s
just a box it’s an old box and the young
man started to think I don’t have money
but maybe there’s something in that box
that he can use to get money so he said
to him have you looked in the box and
all the man said of course I didn’t look
in the box there’s nothing in the box
there’s nothing there but the young man
was quite persistent he said but did you
actually look in the box and the older
man said no I haven’t looked in the box
but let me try now he opened up the box
and to his disbelief for thirty years in
this tattered box he was sitting on gold
and treasures this story reminds us that
inside of us are our treasure when we
wait for others to give to us when we
look outside of ourselves when we look
to everyone else to figure out what we
can do for ourselves in our lives we are
missing the greatest treasure of all
which is out inside of us that treasure
doesn’t have to look good it can be in
the most tattered box the most
unassuming place you will find much is
the power within you but you will also
find what is it about you and your life
and about your passion to give to others
I’d like you to remember today that you
are the greatest that you are the
treasure what you have to do though is
have stamina and you have to remember
stamina means that you keep going if you
can’t find it the first time if you
can’t find it the second time and you
don’t know what your power is you don’t
know what your strength is you don’t
give up
you keep looking you keep looking and
once you find that strength and once you
find that power I ask you to please
share it with others can I please have
the next slide thank you some of you
young people know the song that’s called
I got stamina
love
[Music]
I’m free to be the greatest
I got stamina thank you thank all of you
so here it is if I’m not for myself what
am i if I’m not for myself what am i
we’re gonna go once again not to the
intellect but to the heart and the soul
and we’re going to let it do by
[Music]
[Applause]
and not make mistakes
but I can live that way at the plan page
something in the distance always tasted
[Music]
No
[Music]
No
[Music]
today is the game
[Music]
is still unwritten today is where your
book begins
open up your heart pull out your pen and
don’t worry about making mistakes it’s
really important to know that you can
write your own book that you can make
your own history but you don’t worry
have to worry about making mistakes and
today is the day when your life begins
so when do we do this tomorrow
when I have more money when I have more
time after I get married we all have
this don’t we we think you know what I
can find the treasure within myself I
can find the power within myself when I
have time I don’t have any time now but
here’s the key you have to find time you
have to find the time within yourself
you have to find those moments when
there’s nobody else around when you can
connect to the most powerful part of the
universe you have to find those times
when you can actually connect to the
power within you that treasure is not
outside of you it’s within you so then
you have to understand if not now then
when
you can’t wait you can’t let your life
pass by without doing what you need to
do so Desiree basically gives us a way
to do it
first I’m going to read a poem called
our deepest fear this poem is very
important to me because it’s a poem that
also helps me to do all kinds of work
all over the world and gives me the
strength and the inner peace to do what
I know that is correct our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate our
deepest fear is that we are powerful
it is our light not our darkness that
most frightens us so we ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant to be gorgeous
we are a child of God you’re playing
small does not serve the world we were
born to manifest the glory of God that
is within us it’s not just in some
people it’s actually in every single
solitary person in this audience but
also in the world it’s in all of us and
as we let our own light shine
unconsciously we give others permission
to do the same as we are liberated from
our own fears our presence liberates
others so now let’s hear how Desiree
comes up with this if you know this song
or it needs some of it please feel free
oh sweet
[Music]
the dip
dad you’re gonna be smoother
cool
[Music]
you should give yourselves a round it
was Bravo
so hello did the stream but I said to
myself this is great but if not me then
who and as most of you know Michael
Jackson said who I’m looking at the
woman in the mirror I’m looking at
myself to make that change I’m looking
at myself to do what is needed yes yes
yes the light of God and the power
shines within all of us but all of us
have responsibility to find that light
to find that greatness to find that
treasure and then to share it with
others so what we have to do is look for
it within ourselves so if it’s not me
making the world better than Who and
nobody did it better than Michael
Jackson so if you know this or if you
want to clap or I just want you to
listen to this integrity
make me wanna pay the world what better
place take a look at yourself
in the sea
[Music]
wanna make the world a better place like
I’m you look at myself
if you wanna make the world a better
if I ask only for myself
what a moment if not now
it’s important to take the treasure and
look at it yourself and make that change
you [Music]
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