THE POWER OF BEING YOURSELF | Best Motivational Speech of 2020 Ethic Motivation: motivational quotes and speeches
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well I'm so privileged to be able to
travel all over the country even all
over the globe internationally South
Africa Australia India Europe all over
speaking to schools working with
students and teachers helping them go to
the next level right but I wasn't always
this motivational speaker like I wasn't
always this published author of books
traveling the world I there was a time
when I was in a really dark place you
know my mom had me when she was 16
years
old I grew up without my biological
father in my life
I struggled with years for drug and
alcohol abuse and I just found myself in
a really really really weird and dark
place I had to repeat the seventh grade
and when the eighth grade came around
I'll never forget hearing at a
parent-teacher conference a teacher tell
my mom that I was(ethicdiscussion.com) in a high school material
and I came to tell you that words are
powerful and when I heard that statement
I remember feeling like wow you know
like I am really really a failure you
know like it's one thing to tell a
student hey okay you're about to
graduate from high school
you're not college material you're not
gonna go to Ivy League maybe you should
go to a Czech school like I've heard
that right like cuz you know the people
different people have different paths
but but how do you tell like a high
school kid or middle school kid that
they're not ready for high school like
it affected me and I'll never forget
going that next year and after a series
of events a lot of fighting a lot of
struggling that school end up kicking me
out it was really rough I'll never
forget like when I first tricked my mom
and she saw it she was like I'm so proud
of you she started crying
I even got emotional she's hugging me
I'm hugging her we got like a
breakthrough and you're probably
wondering like Jeremy why were you
crying like you know you didn't really
earn all A's and two beans well for the
first time in a long time I didn't feel
like a failure like I actually felt
successful like worthy like I felt like
I was good enough there so I that was a
bit of emotional moment but it wasn't
real because I didn't really earn those
grades and again she's in tears but now
what's worth what was once tears of joy
now was tears of sorrow tears of pain
frustration and she's trying to figure
out like I wished my baby would just get
it together (ethicdiscussion.com) and I was so hurt but I felt
stuck I was depressed I was tired I was
struggling I felt like I was an accident
like what's the purpose of life like why
am I here
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I felt like school was you know I felt
like I was I couldn't fit in when it was
time to read I didn't want to read
because somebody was well teased because
I wasn't a good reader so I would go and
use the bathroom like who's always
getting the fights people was bullying
me then there was a time when I was a
bully like I just struggled I was like
what's the point of it all and my mom is
a great mom (ethicdiscussion.com) so she moved me to another
school so now I'm and I'm at the school
now called Huntsville hi this is my
third school for the ninth grade now I
met this new school and I don't know how
to explain it to you but I got a group
of teachers I felt like they were weird
they were saying stuff like Jeremy we
believe in you me what teachers like oh
yeah Jeremy Anderson I've taught my man
ah this is gonna (ethicdiscussion.com) be the best year ever
I'm like okay what teacher I had to ask
myself wait a second
y'all are way too enthusiastic did y'all
get my transcripts like y'all got the
right Jeremy they was like yeah we got
the right Jeremy but you're in a new
season now so you don't have to worry
about the past I'll say yeah but you do
know about last year yep I said you know
this is my third school it's like we're
not worried about that again Jeremy
you're the new season now so let's not
bring all things into a new season and
they began to speak life to me they
begin their courage me they begin to
affirm me and because I was young and I
was immature I kind of felt like well
you don't really understand my story
you don't comfort while I come from and
I try to build the wall up but you know
what knocked that wall down it's love
you know what knocked that wall down it
was perseverance you know what knocked
that wall down it was like unwavering
commitment and support and I realized
you can be black white purple blue green
we need each other and if your showing
up because you believe in me and you see
great things inside me like maybe just
maybe I could do great things you know
when I go to schools and speak I always
start with two rules
I'll give this through those two rules
I'm like rule number one I need you lock
they're focused and listening to me my
second rule is I need you to believe
because I can be up here speaking and up
here sweating up here crying and
pour my heart out to you but if you have
the mindset like nothing is ever gonna
change like some of you when they was
doing that play and they was doing that
skip some of you felt it
some of you was like wow they shared my
story but there was still a little voice
in the back in your mind they said yeah
but that's not really gonna change
oh yeah it's easier said than done no no
no listen to me hear me louder clear
your mind set your belief system is
everything and it is so powerful and so
I came all the way from Atlanta Georgia
to tell you you were not a mistake
you were not an accident you were here
for a reason
I know you're going through some hard
times I know life at times might feel
rough or you might feel weird or things
might be frustrating but it's not going
to always be like this your condition
it's not your conclusion there is so
much more that's gonna take place there
are so much more power that's decides
you if you make up in your mind I choose
to believe that I could do great things
and I promise you my young friends I got
to a point in life when I lost like men
I got these teachers they must really
care like when you start having teachers
that get diagnosed with cancer but they
still show up to school teachers who
used to be engineers and they left that
industry to take a major pay cut to help
me like when you have teachers that have
a a triple bypass surgery one of my
teachers had arthritis so bad she
couldn't even write on the chalkboard
other teacher was going through a
divorce another one that just bared her
child
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I'm looking through all these teachers
that's going through life just like you
just like me
but they kept showing up so something
inside my brain said maybe I am worth it
something inside me said made me I can't
do great things for them to jump through
all these hoops and go out of their way
to kind of connect with me for them to
make these sacrifices maybe it is
possible for me it's the same way with
you you're here because you're cause
you're here because your life has
purpose you're here because you were
fearfully and wonderfully made and there
was a special powerful plan for your
life and if you choose to fight it's
only a matter of time before you get
your breakthrough and I promise you I
was at that place while I was looking at
my teachers and I was like you're making
all these sacrifices you have life
you're struggling you're going through
some stuff but you still show up every
single day
I got to do is believe I'm like sign me
up and I was crazy enough to make some
adjustments I was crazy enough to value
school I was crazy and then watch this
and desperate enough to say after school
I could hang out at kicking with my boys
or play video games and watch TV but no
on my hands on my homework first I'm
gonna make the main thing the main thing
and I took summer school and I took my
school because I believed that there was
something special inside me I believe
that when my mom and dad came together
even though they didn't plan for me and
I came from a rough situations there was
23 chromosomes from my mom and 23
chromosomes from my dad came together to
make one single sale and over time those
cells began to multiply and duplicate
and I am where I am now where you are
where you are now like you there's a
reason that you're here right there's a
reason that you exist and so you just
tell yourself I want to do great things
I want to experience great things and I
want to bounce back and that's what I
told myself and so I started doing
summer school and I took my school
courses and I took extra classes and
watch this
I was bold enough and I was strong
enough to be humble and say I need help
the reality is nobody's life is perfect
and so sometimes we feel like I don't
want the world to know it's okay if you
need help you get to help so when people
see me now they're like ron jeremy you
pulled yourself up by your boot I'm like
it wasn't that simple I made some
adjustments but I still needed people's
help and I was strong enough and brave
enough to say hey I need help so if I
need to get a counselor if I need a
therapist if I need a tutor I need help
because I can't make it by myself and
I'm a big advocate for that and so what
am I telling you when I did that things
for me began to shift and so after I got
the bachelor's I'm like why stop here
it's the craziest thing right I had all
those drugs addiction and alcohol and
and pills and all the negative stuff I
was doing because I thought it was cool
and I liked that temporary feeling it
gave me because it was able to kind of
temporarily numb the pain but I realized
it was something deeper and so when I
stopped there and I began to value and
my body and I'm in my mind and I begin
to treat it like it's a precious like
temple and like it's a precious like a
thing like I was like I had the honor
and value myself and I stopped that
stuff it's like I got addicted to
something else it's just
cause success that kid that was getting
kicked out that felt like he wasn't good
enough that went to three different
schools on ninth grade bounce bad got
degrees began to travel to make this
impact why because I believe this so
I'll share there with you because I want
you to take a moment now and I want you
to seriously think about your life I
think about where you are internally we
have a group of people in here some of
you you're struggling yourself some of
you were just trying to get by you've
got so many pressures on you you want to
make your family proud you don't say you
want to get good grades you want to make
people proud but then you also have
friends and you want to be cool in their
eyes and you want to kind of fit in
there and the summer you were in a
really rare place you feel like people
don't understand you you feel like
you're having a hard time to connect
with people when you wake up in the
morning you feel like you're in the
slumps and you feel tired and drained
like I get it I've got a message for you
right the people those of you that's
looking for us acceptance from others
you're gonna have to make up your mind
and say you know what whether you accept
me or not I'm amazing I'm smart I'm
beautiful I'm talents he because if not
if you live for their acceptance you'll
die from their rejection so you gotta
tell yourself you know what I know I'm
amazing and I know I'm smart and those
of you that feel like you're in a really
weird place don't you that feel like
nobody understands you those of you that
feels like men I'm just here but I'm not
having a hard time connecting with
people you lost your zeal you lost your
passion you know you feel like you know
what's the point of living you feel like
what you could relate to what they were
doing in the skit here's my advice to
you don't keep it to yourself the worst
thing that you can do when you're in
that dark place it should just let that
thing push you off in the corner I'm
gonna challenge you to come to the light
like life can be hard life can be rough
but there's something special and
there's something powerful about the
human mind and about the human spirit
and about the human will when you tell
yourself I won't give up I won't
surrender I won't quit I'm gonna soar up
every single day and do the best that I
can and here's the beautiful thing about
you
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it's why you're going through your
process and why you're trying to
navigate these waters and while you're
still you know trying to tweak some
stuff within yourself you still got the
power to save somebody else's life you
got the power to speak up for others you
got the power to be the voice of reason
for someone who might be on the verge of
doing something they shouldn't do you
have the power of saying hey I saw this
going on I know this isn't right you
have the power to put your arm around
somebody that might be in a really rough
place you have the power when you see
that person sitting by yourself in the
cafeteria you you slide over by them
even if they make you feel like you're
weird that's fine because they're gonna
go home and they're gonna think like wow
somebody actually saw me somebody
actually set by me like you have the
power to compliment someone and say hey
I like those kids all right like your
hair all right like your style like you
have the power to brighten somebody's
day your words are powerful your energy
is powerful and so I don't what you want
to think that you have to have it all
together and everything for you has to
be perfect and in order for you to be a
leader no no no no you can make an
impact you can make a difference you can
save somebody's life right now by you
just being unapologetically you and
you're walking in that calling and you
speak light and you affirm and you let
others know I see you and I with you and
I got your back and you're not by
yourself and I will hold your hand as
you go throughout this journey and even
though I'm struggling I don't mind
fighting on behalf
we're gonna figure this thing out
together keyword together I need to
catch that right because we're in a
weird place that's the country keyword
together we're gonna figure this thing
out together there's something beautiful
about us having that mindset of us being
together
you don't say not black white asian
Hispanic not Republican Democrat
independent we are here and I believe
that there is more that makes us
together there was more than we have in
common then we had that's not in common
and I believe that our differences and
what makes us though doggone amazing our
differences
think about this for a moment think
about how lame and how boring the world
would be if we only had one kind of bird
what have you looked up and said oh
that's a bird that's a pretty bird but
no it's not just one kind of bird we got
blue jays we got Canaries we got
Cardinals we got eagles we got ours
we got pigeons you I'm a fan think about
that right like there were so many
amazing things and there are so many
different amazing personalities and
there is nobody else on this planet
exactly like you and so I believe then
we make a decision is that you know what
we will come together as a people
here's the reality you are that came
today you are like the delegates you got
chosen the reality is I would love to be
able to presented every single person
inside your school and it really take
time to unpack my story and some of the
things I had to go through to ensure
success right but I'm sharing it with
you so that you can then take it back to
your school so that you can make the
impact you've been called to make you
got to view this conference almost like
this is the training ground where we
train you and we equip you and we
prepare you to go back to your school
with that mindset what we prepare you
and train you and equip you to be a
leader now I think that in today's day
and age we view leadership and the
responsibility a little wrong like
some people view leadership is like I'm
the boss
you have to listen to me and what I say
go no no no no true leaders our servants
when you have that mindset that tells
yourself I want to be a servant to my
school I want to be a servant to my
school I want to be a servant to my
community like that's what makes you
great think about it why do we have such
high esteem and high regards for
policemen and firemen and women you
don't know saying and first responders
it's because they live a life of service
they show up every single day and
they're like hey it's not about me and
what I want and makes me comfortable I'm
here to make sure our people are safe
I'm here to make sure our people have
what they need I'm here to help them
live in a thrive like that's the mindset
that we have to have so we need you all
leaving the conference today with a
mindset like you know what I'm not just
a student you don't saying that just
happening in this gray I'm not just here
at the school I'm here for a reason you
don't say you got to tell yourself man I
felt like I've been pushed down in the
dirt I feel like people have been
stuffing on me I feel like stuff has
been raining on me
but you didn't realize this my young
friends you was just a seed so you got
to tell yourself no no no I haven't been
pushed down on the dirt and I haven't
been stumped on I've been planted and
I've been placed in this pot for a
reason and we're at this arena here to
be able to have a conversation they say
what does it look like to go to that
next level what does it look like -
speak up - stand up what eventually
happens from that we save
life and I want to enable you all you
have the power to save somebody's life I
know some of you were thinking again
Jeremy but I'm trying to just hold on
myself that we all are just trying to
hold on we all are going to continue to
fight but when we had that mindset that
says I don't want to just make sure I'm
good I want to make sure I'm good and
when I help those around me this is why
I talk about mental health this is why I
talk about us making sure we get the
help that we need because every single
time I get on the airplane
they say Jeremy if something goes wrong
you put your oxygen mask on then you
help others and so I need you all to do
the same thing when you leave here if
you feel like you're in a weird place if
you feel stuck if you feel like you know
what I feel like I need some help you
get the help you need that's how you
show how strong and how bold and how
powerful you are and then when you feel
like okay I'm getting the help I need
now I can speak light now I can support
others now I can affirm others that's
where the power takes place when I look
around this arena I can't help a
question I can't help but ask myself
what you were going to accomplish right
like I just kind of wonder that like
what do you want to achieve I mean we
get done and we'll take some pictures
and selfies and we'll have a good time
together but in the back of my mind I'd
be wondering like what's the next app
that you're going to create you don't
send some time I wonder like you know I
said are you gonna come up with a cure
for Alzheimer's dementia or are you
going to come up you know saying what's
something that can purify water for
people across the globe
are you gonna create the next app that
can connect us are you going to be the
next teacher or superintendent are you
going to be the next leader or not
community like my I'd be wondering
sometimes like what are the great things
that you're going to accomplish and
there are times when I look at what's
happening in the world and imma be
discouraged I've got a seven-year-old
daughter and a one-year-old baby boy
sometimes I look at the crazy stuff
that's happening in this world and I'm
like man what kind of world am i racing
my kids in but then I'm encouraged
because I get to come to events like
this and I get to look in your faces and
connect with you and I have no doubt
that there's great things asides you and
that you're gonna experience some
amazing things inside your life if you
make a decision to say I'm gonna speak
up I'm gonna stand up I'm gonna save a
life if you tell yourself I will be a
leader if you tell yourself I'm gonna
show up every single day at my school
and I'm gonna
above and beyond because there are some
kids and some different countries and
some different places that wish they had
the opportunity to be at my school to
have floors and lights you don't stand
and screens and Technology I've been to
places my young friends where I've
walked through some schools in some
different countries doing some volunteer
work and I'm seeing the facilities there
I knows I've met some kids that would
love to come here and be able to go to a
school that has a gym or be able to go
to a school that has AC or to be able to
go to school that has desk or to be able
to go to school where they get their own
books and there's some of y'all tablets
and all these extra things we are so
privileged what do we do with this
opportunity that we have I want to
challenge you to make the most of it
to speak life to love to encourage to
wrap your arms around those who are
struggling and you let them know you
know where you're not in this by
yourself now you can't always control
what happens to you my friends but you
can't control how you respond to it and
I told my wife years ago I said well
we're not gonna do is we're not gonna
quit and we're not gonna surrender and
we're gonna put our best foot forward
and we'll do everything that we can to
help make the world a better place this
world we live in we need you operating
in your full gifts and your full talents
you are here for a reason I know life
can be weird I know life can be
frustrating but when you tell yourself
you know what I'm here for a reason I
have something to say
my life has Worth and value I am a
leader I am here to serve others I am
here to serve my school I think that's
when the shift really really begins to
take place I believe that that's what we
can tell ourselves okay now I'm really
living my best life because I show up
every single day with the focus to make
an impact in the lives of others and so
we need you all to leave with this
mindset here I need you all to tell
yourself I was born to be a leader I was
born to win I live in my purpose until
the end and if you question my greatness
and don't believe I'll prove you wrong
and soon you'll see you tell yourself I
am great I am smart I won't quit I won't
you'll make a proclamation also hope and
love until the very end you tell
yourself I'll lead with honesty I'll
lead with honesty respect hope and love
you tell yourself I'll leave this world
to rise above and when things get really
really rough you tell yourself I won't
give up with life I wrestle I am a
hard-working and resilient vessel I am
cool I am smart I am kind I am special I
will remain grateful but never silly
that's my time god bless you all
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