Speech: For Love Remembered Such Wealth Brings

While trying to clear some space and sorting out my files on the laptop I decided to upload a few of my speeches. 

OPENING CEREMONY 2014

Good Morning.

(wait for response)

Let’s try that again.

Stand up shake about. Sit down.

GOOOOOOOD MORNING DOLPHINS.!!

That’s good all that’s real good. 

Firstly. Welcome back, I hope you all had a great holiday. How many of you went away for the holiday. Hands up, yeah.  Wonderful.

We’re starting a new term and with a new term comes new challenges. There are new problems that we need to overcome, new opportunities that we need to take, new roads that we can explore.

But as much as we have the opportunity to start with new things we need to occasionally take a look back at where we were. Where we come from. We need to do this so we can better understand where we are going.

Everyone here has had some good times and bad times, happy times and sad times. But you should know that nothing lasts forever not even those times when we are sad.  Nothing is the same from one moment to the next.  And that is not always a bad thing.

But when things get tough.  We need to keep moving forward. Sometimes when things get difficult then we want to take a step back. We want to sit and wait it out until things get better. But you have to keep moving forward.

How many of you like surprises?  Show of hands.

-LIARS-

Nobody likes surprises. The only time we like a surprise is when we know that it’s going to be good. The rest of the time we call them problems.  But we need problems. We need them just as much as much as we need surprises.

I know you’re thinking,  “What? That doesn’t make any sense? The old man has finally lost it.”

But listen, there is method to the madness. There’s probably a bit of madness in the madness as well but listen anyway.

We need problems because we become stronger because of them. Every time you have a problem and you beat that sucker down. You have become a better person. You took control of your life and you made something of it. But to do that you have to make a decision.

That doesn’t always mean that the decisions you will make will always be the right one. Nobody makes the right decision all the time.  It just doesn’t happen. But if you want to become great, if you want to win in life and become successful then you have to be able to trust yourself and the decisions you make.

1. Trust yourself

When I say trust yourself. What I want is for you all to dig deep down and ask yourself: ‘who do I want to be?’. Not what, but who. I’m not talking about becoming a Doctor, or a Lawyer or anything like that. I’m not talking about what your parents or teachers wants you to be. I’m talking about you! Figure out for yourself, what makes you happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to the people around you.

2. Break the rules

Be prepared to break the rules. Not the law. I’m not saying you should go out there and steal some cars or anything like that. But we have so many rules in life about everything, break the rules! It is impossible to be truly original if you never take a chance, you have to think outside the box. What is the point of being on this world if all you want is to be like everybody else?

3. Don’t be afraid to make a mistake

You can’t win all the time but in the end there’s no excuse for not even trying. You can’t always win, but don’t be afraid of making decisions. You can’t be stopped by fear of losing or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your dream and you know that it is the right thing to do. When you do this success will come.

You will lose more often than you win, but when that happens, you stand up again and again and again. You do it as many times as you need until you get it right.

4. Don’t listen to the naysayer

How many times have you heard: you can’t do this, you can’t do that. It has never been done before. I want you to tune out all these negative people who tell you that dreams aren’t going to happen.

5. Work your butt off!

If you want to make a success of your life then there’s one thing that you cannot do without. And that is hard work. If you play around all the time and don’t take your work seriously then just remember that someone else out there at the same time is working hard, someone is getting smarter, remember that! There is basically 24 hours a day, you sleep 6 hours. That means you have 18 hours left. I know that some of you out there are saying: ‘wait a minute I sleep 8 or 9 hours’. Well, than sleep faster I recommend.

FINALLY I want to talk about Focus.

I want you all to stand up.

Now shake about.

Now look around and find a bunch of things that are green.

Now sit down, close your eyes and remember all the things that were brown.

Most of us are going to have trouble coming up with many examples. Now open your eyes take another look around and find things that are brown.

You found a lot more examples.  And why because

Seek and you shall….find.

When you put your attention on something that you want and you put in every effort to accomplishing that goal then nothing will be able to stand in your way.

I want you all to have a great term and start to take the steps needed to become as great as I know you can be.