Michelle Obamas Life Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS MUST WATCH

you have to practice who you want to be

you know you don’t wake up one morning

and you’re suddenly who you think you

want to be you have to put some energy

into it so if you want to be an honest

person you have to be an honest person

every day

even starting at three and four and five

right if you’re going to be a hard

worker hard work doesn’t just appear you

have to practice hard work you have to

practice effort and i also encourage

them try to help them understand that

good things don’t come easy

you know with that effort you know

that’s where you grow that’s where

growth some of the best times in my life

when i’ve grown it’s when i’ve done

something hard

when i’ve overcome a fear

you don’t realize that when you’re doing

it but when you come out

on the other side you realize wow i’ve

really

stepped up so i push my girls but more

importantly i love them a lot and that’s

what i feel for all of you

i want you guys to

feel that in your lives so that you can

be excellent

because other people told me that i

might not be able to

to do well in school

for whatever reason i was always a good

student i worked hard but i thought

there was some magic

that happened

that made you really you know i didn’t

know that it was just plain old hard

work

so there were periods of doubt for sure

i think we all i have doubts today

doubts don’t go away

you just learn how to

deal with them you you start knowing

yourself and you become more confident

the more successes you have the more

chances you take

you don’t let the the failures or the

stumbles define you

you know everybody falls every now and

then some people fall a lot

and what i realized is that we have long

lives if we’re healthy and we do what

we’re supposed to do

i’m 47 years old

so think about it whatever mistake i

made when i was 13 who cares

so think about life as a long trajectory

but at the same time

you don’t want to make huge mistakes

because when you’re young

making big big mistakes can last forever

right so you want to choose wisely

but the stumbles the lessons learned

that’s part of life that that makes you

grow but i i came to know that i didn’t

know that when i was your age i thought

every every mistake was the end of the

world

i’ll never be able i’ll never get into

school i’ll never be you know of course

we all feel that way

um but just continue to work put the put

the effort in and i think

that has been

some of what’s helped me being first

lady

first of all is knowing who you are and

being confident in yourself because

there’ll be

clarissa what do you say pushing beyond

other people’s labels of you

right that’s a big part that’s what we

do to each other all the time we don’t

even know each other and we already

determined from one glance meeting one

line one word one phrase this is who you

are

so you have to know who you are

before that

and you and you live that reality and

you keep living it out no matter what

and if you’re a good have good character

and and good intentions

that that ultimately shines through but

in the end it’s hard work

and

i like to work hard and i like to do

good things

and you practice that now

and believe it or not i didn’t know it

it prepared me to be the first lady of

united states i didn’t know i guess i’m

doing okay but you know what

every day we just get up

and keep doing what we think is the

right thing

read

write

read read if the president were here

one of his greatest

strengths is reading

that’s one of the reasons why he’s a

good communicator why he’s such a good

writer he’s a voracious reader so we’re

trying to get our girls no matter what

to just be

to love reading and to challenge

themselves with what they read not just

read the gossip books but push

themselves beyond and do things that

maybe they wouldn’t do so i would

encourage you all to

to read read read just keep reading and

writing is another skill it’s practice

it’s practice the more you write the

better you get drafts

our kids are learning the first draft

means nothing you’re gonna do seven ten

drafts that’s writing it’s not failure

it’s not

not the teacher not liking you because

it’s all marked up and read

when you get to be a good writer you

mark your own stuff in red

and you rewrite and you rewrite and you

rewrite that’s what writing is

and if you come out with those skills

and then you’re confident and you can

articulate and you can stand up straight

and look anybody in the eye and say this

is who i am it’s a pleasure to meet you

that’s one of the things we try to do

with our mentoring program with young

girls

my message to them is if you can walk

into the white house

and meet the first lady and say my name

is how are you and look me in the eye

then there’s nothing you can’t do that’s

why it’s important if you guys walked

here

are sitting here in front of all these

people

standing tall asking questions using

your voice

you have to practice that

these arenas just show up again and

again and then you just get used to it

the nerves go away and you start

relaxing into your own abilities

but it’s practice

when you are struggling

and you start thinking about giving up

i want you to remember something that my

husband and i have talked about since we

first started this journey nearly a

decade ago

something that has carried us through

every moment

in this white house in every moment of

our lives

and that is the power of hope

the belief that something better

is always possible if you’re willing to

work for it and fight for it

it is our fundamental belief in the

power of hope that has allowed us to

rise above the voices of doubt and

division

of anger and fear that we have faced in

our own lives and in the life of this

country

our hope that if we work hard enough and

believe in ourselves

then we can be whatever we dream

regardless of the limitations that

others may place on us

the hope that when people see us for who

we truly are

maybe just maybe

they too will be inspired

to rise to their best possible selves

shoot it’s the hope of my

folks like my dad

got up every day

do his job at the city water plant

the hope that one day his kids

would go to college

and have opportunities he never dreamed

of

that’s the kind of hope

that every single one of us

politicians

parents preachers all of us

need to be providing for our young

people

because that is what moves this country

forward every single day

our hope for the future

and the hard work that hope inspires i

want our young people to know

that they matter

that they

belong

so don’t be afraid

you hear me young people don’t be afraid

be focused

be determined

be hopeful

be empowered

empower yourselves with a good education

then get out there and use that

education to build a country worthy of

your boundless promise

lead by example with hope

never fear

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