A speaker tells students to pour full effort into life beyond school, drawing from his own path as an entrepreneur, coach, author, and pastor. He argues that recognizing your diverse gifts and talents can unlock potential comparable to Michael Jordan or Oprah Winfrey. Use school as a platform, not a limitation.
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All right, secondly, give it all you got. Give it all you've got. Give life all you have to give. It's not enough to wake up in the morning and come here and then go home and then repeat that the next day and go home. There's more to your life than just this school. And I, and I'm, I'm saying that intentionally because I want you to know that life has bigger responsibilities than just being in school. Life has bigger responsibility than just being a citizen in society. Is school important? You better believe it. In fact, I'm gonna talk a little bit more about how important it is, but don't limit what you can do with your life to just being in school. Is this important? Yes, but there's so much more you can have. Why am I sharing that? Because when I started on my journey, I was limiting myself to what I could do because I was holding back in different areas of creativity. I started feeling like, oh, all I can do is just talk to a couple of people on the street. And then I realized, no, there's more to me than that. And then I started realizing I have a business inside of me. And then I started focusing on that as if that was all I could do. But then I discovered, no, I have more than that. I'm also a life coach. And then I started focusing on coaching people. And then I realized, okay, I have more than that. I'm also a mentor. And then I've discovered I'm also a book writer. And then then I discovered that I'm also a leadership trainer, and then I discovered that I'm also a pastor, and then I discovered that I have so much more to offer. And the more I started to focus internally and realize what I had interpersonally, then I began to maximize my potential. So when you're giving it all you have to give, then you're maximizing your potential. It's not enough to just do one thing in life if you have gifts, talents, and creativity that enables you to do 5 things in life, right? Does that make sense to anybody? Yes. And, and, and it's important to understand that you are gifted, you are talented, you have greatness on your life. You can do anything you set your heart to do. You're the next Michael Jordan, you're the next Oprah Winfrey, you're the next Barack Obama. Like, you, you have what it takes. You can do whatever you want to do. You, you just gotta believe that you have something special and And that you have greatness on your life. And even though you're in school to get a degree, this is not all that your life consists of. There's so much more that you can do with your life. Now, number 3, let's focus on being here in school.
