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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