Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Discover the Power of Your Thoughts and Choices to Shape Your Child’s Future Today!

22 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this motivational talk, the speaker introduces the "Parents on a Mission" program, emphasizing the need for intentional and relational parenting. He outlines a foundational process beginning with self‑knowledge—knowing oneself as the first step. The second step is recognizing the power of one’s thoughts, citing a psychological study that people engage in roughly 50,000 internal conversations per day, with about 80% being negative. The speaker stresses that this negative self‑talk shapes how parents view themselves and, consequently, how they interact with their children. By becoming aware of these patterns, parents can make more positive choices that influence their child’s future.

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You need to be more intentional and more relational. And that's what parents on a mission is all about. That's what it's built for. And in, in this process, the first one is I need to know me. And that's a whole lesson in itself. I'm not going to get into all the details right now, but that is the foundational a step is to know myself. Number two is to understand the power of your thoughts. Very important. I, I, I don't think we really it take the time to understand how important our thought life is, how important our mind is, how important our thinking is. You know there's a study that was done by psychologist and it says that on average people talk to themselves. They have an internal conversation 50,000 times a day. And that's a lot of self talk. You know the thoughts that go in our minds about so many things all day long every day. But the key to that study said 80% of those thoughts or that self talk is negative. Imagine that 80% of as we talking to ourselves is negative. Well that's important to understand that because if I have a negative self talk or thought life about me because that's the main thing is how is my thinking about, my thinking about myself.