HARD WORK BEATS TALENT – School Motivation
nine years ago man I I did this and I
would encourage somebody to I took a
piece of paper and I wrote down my
dreams and my goals and I slapped it on
a bathroom near every single day I would
wake up and I would look at it and I
said every choice that I make every
decision that I make I’m gonna bounce it
off is that gonna help my dream become a
real or is it gonna help destroy my
dream and if the choices that I’m making
or helping my dream that’s the choice
for me but if the choices were making
are destroying our dreams
that’s not the choice for you you have
to learn to become mission a goal dream
oriented and not in the moment
impulsive oriented it’s like when you
look at a rearview mirror when you look
in the rearview mirror the words read
things in the mirror closer than they
appear and I need every one of you young
men and young ladies to understand that
your dreams and your goals they’re right
there in front of you they are closer
than you could imagine or even even
think about a dream
they’re right there I don’t care if
there’s a seventh grader up to the
senior right now what you want to become
and what you want to achieve it’s right
there things in the mirror are closer
than they appear and the doctor the
teacher the scientist the cardiology is
the cosmetologist the athlete
Tanner’s a musician whatever it is that
you want to become it’s right there in
front of you but the choices and
decisions that we make are going to
matter and we’ve got to stop letting the
opinions of people that don’t really
value you and what they think about you
cleanse you back from breaking free and
willing at this thing with everything
that you got in because of dreams all
those things director and come here
but it’s the choices and the decisions
that we make these are the the
currencies that are going to purchase
that dream decisions of our currency
that purchases those dreams prioritizing
in your life is
purchases those dreams what can do is
what’s gonna matter
some of you gotta stop plan
instead of recognizing that this is your
moment don’t you dare give yourself away
for something that you’re not because
you want to fit in don’t do it don’t you
dare do it
I know these are real issues and your
arrest
and you’re trying to figure out up and
down left or right and where am I going
I’m telling you guys you’re at a place
right now on this day and this month in
this school that I’m talking to you you
can realize something this is your
moment to change this is your moment to
realize you don’t have to do or be what
anybody else thinks is you want anybody
else expects you to be you can be you
and you can become what you want to
become
so those dreams and goals that something
you have that may seem larger-than-life
good that’s what I want you to go after
and don’t let the fear of the failure
don’t let the fear of perfection hold
you back you won’t be perfect you will
make mistakes but I promise you this
you’re never going to know if you can
think or if you can swim unless you jump
in the water your world this journey is
a beautiful picture every one of you are
drawing a picture with your life you’re
the artists your hands and your feet are
the paint brushes and the choices and
decisions you’re making right now are
the paint strokes you can you can paint
whatever picture you want to pay you can
become whatever you want to become but
your choices and decisions that you’re
making right now matter I could slow
down and make choices that bill and
don’t destroy if I can make choices that
grow and don’t pare down if I could
learn to feed positivity and starve
negativity man my life could change
because hard work works make good
choices great things happen
hard work I’m sorry there’s no way
around it hard work works we can’t cut
corners every a is it an a and I say
that what I mean is you can jump on
Google if you want to just to get the
answer but you’re not robbing your
teachers you’re not robbing your parents
you’re not robbing the school the only
person that you’re robbing is you
because you’re trying to take the
shortcuts not every a is an a hard work
works and the great thing about hard
work especially in our culture our world
is lazy everybody will talk about it
everybody would post about it but not
too many people want to do it and if you
will just find the courage to begin to
chase your dream to make choices that
build to put in the work
by default instantly because most people
are lazy you separate yourself from the
crowd because everybody talks and posts
but not too many people want to roll up
and go hard work will always outwork
talented people that don’t want to work
hard you can control you you can’t
control what they think of you and you
can’t control what they’re doing but you
can’t control you and hard work will
always outwork talented people that
really don’t want to work hard every one
of you no matter where you’re at on the
spectrum of this journey of life you can
absolutely take their life with full
authority and become whatever you want
to become them diamonds diamonds are
made beautifully diamonds are from coal
and from pressure and from heat and it
takes an amazing amount of stuff and
from that dirt and from those coal mines
and from all the dangers of that
struggle and that stress these are
something amazing happen man some of you
have been going through a lot some
things have been intentional some things
are the things that you were dealt with
in life that you had no control over but
what I’m telling you regardless of what
the circumstances is and what you’ve
been going through there is beauty in
the ashes man it’s not about us being
perfect
it’s not about you being perfect right
now but it’s about progress it’s about
growth you know failure is a beautiful
thing because failures is where we learn
to grow our character can get deeper
richer more more for of who we are as a
person
like mistakes are okay I’m not saying go
out there and turn make mistakes and go
try to fail but this is a part of life
every successful person you will ever
come across has failed big has failed
often but failure wasn’t failure where
they gave up it was where they just
learned what not to do and how they can
go about it in a different way they used
every experience how can this teach me
about being a better person to have
better to achieve better to become
better everything is going to be
perspective as you guys grow up
don’t allow the pressors to overrun you
where you start compromising who you are
as long as we’re breathing as long as we
have breath in our lungs there’s hope
for us to overcome to persevere and to
push through any object any obstacle any
adversity in our lives your dreams and
your goals are not gonna come easy and
if they’re coming easy you’re not
dreaming big enough literally dreams and
goals they should take sacrifice blood
sweat tears absolute total focus of
pushing yourself and if dreams and goals
are coming easy I I submit to you it’s
time for you to ratchet up what you’re
going after because you can achieve more
because without restraint without
struggle without resistance there’s no
growth if I was a weight lifter and if I
wanted to get swole right and I want to
be able to bench like 325 pounds I
couldn’t go out there and lift just 150
pounds every single day over and over
and over again and everything that was
going to get bigger I would have to
apply more weight more resistance more
pressure and push myself don’t find
yourself right now
hit me autopilot people here right now
have the capabilities in the metrology
to make impact in this world to because
of an epic proportion that well whatever
you do put your hands to ever foundation
Lambert business field and even a better
revelation you want to go somewhere else
is like your career you have a
capability to transforming this world
you guys have got to start thinking epic
you guys have got to start thinking
outside of the box you can become
whatever you want to become but your
choices and decisions that you’re making
right now
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