Unicef Janis McDavid – Motivational Speaker
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so there’s no better way to start down
into the floors yours
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I had fooled myself for a long time
I just wanted to hide myself it was
really embarrassing because what should
my father think of me
I was always telling him well I want to
be kind of a motorcycle policeman
and in South Africa to hold motivational
speeches I was invited by UNICEF for the
management team meeting to make a kind
of a inspirational kickoff and later on
to a safe Park in Soweto here with
children to motivate children and to
tell them how it is to accept yourself
when you are different I think the
essence of my message is that we can
achieve much more if we manage to accept
our situation so for me this was a very
important step to really accept my
situation my body how I am because
afterwards I am able to take my life
into my own hands and I can achieve many
more things than before and can be much
more motivated and this is I think the
the essential topic for UNICEF to be
motivated and to keep on going and
projects like the safe park for example
they have a very important role I think
in order to train people to train
children to be self-confident because
this is something you can learn you can
link a train and also to accept your
situation is something that you can
learn to accept your body or
to accept whatever and to really get to
know who you are where you’re the only
one that was disabled at school or there
were others at school I was much more
shy in this age really I would never
have gone to a stage to ask someone a
question never and and even even in a
different language not in my own mother
language there and I was really
impressed by this and this showed me
that that the work they do here is
important and success for me you are the
key to the broken hearts minds and souls
so I want you to know that no matter
what you going through or what the
situation is you can use poverty as an
excuse what I can say to you is you are
who you are for what you are you are the
person who can do many things like me
and the rest of us
you are truly God’s work this poem
because it showed me that this girl
really thought about my situation and
then she made this this this poem and
what she said is very important as well
to be positive and that to be different
is normal
I gather I can just jump like this what
is important for me is to really live my
best life and I want to motivate other
people to live their best lives as well
because the life is our life and we need
to take our lives in our own hands to
really be able to get to live our best
life but what is important for this is
in a first step to accept yourself
because then you are able to deal with
all the challenges that are in front of
you and you can find such a power inside
yourself when you accept yourself that
is incredible
with just this one decision I made to
accept my situation I’ve completely
changed my life
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