Motivational Media Assemblies Programs

Too many young people are not reaching their potential because they lack the combination of desire and discipline. People cannot succeed in life from runaway desire, that’s not enough. Too many mistakes increase a person’s vulnerability or create absolute disaster. From selective academic disinterest (“the I don’t need to study that stuff!”) to poor anger management, to drug use, emotions in our youth are leading to wrong decisions, not to great learning. Discipline brings “balance” to our lives, giving us second thoughts and second chances. The first life we often experience is the one we learn with, where mistakes turn into wisdom. The SECOND LIFE is where we really begin to live!

• Life is built on DESIRE. It is our passion in life that often determines our destiny.

We are beings of emotion, feelings that push us ahead or hold back in life. While feelings may start as impulses, we choose to follow them or go in a different direction.

Building DISCIPLINE, channeling our desires for the best in life, is critical.

• Emotions easily get “out-of-control” on us, taking us into dangerous waters. We see many people ruining their progress from one moment of impulse. If our emotions are misleading us into danger or poor decisions, they cripple our ability to get ahead. These days, many young people are carrying around too much anger or hopelessness. Rather than be grateful for what they have in life, they are choosing a state of chronic “dissatisfaction” which is affecting their lives at hone, at school and in the community.

• Mistakes are not permanent unless we make them so. They say that mistakes do NOT make the person, that you are not your mistakes. That may generally be true, but some people are developing patterns or habits that are moving toward being lifelong weaknesses. Drug use and violence can become patterns that control our emotions and daily lives. It’s important to let mistakes push us away from harmful repetition, without getting so despondent that we give up on changing ourselves.

• Good leaders are good examples. Everybody influences someone at all times. Our words and actions either get watched, laughed at, or followed. Our collective impact on people either leads them forward into positive change or undermines change. Social norms on drinking and other drugs, unsafe driving, and low participation in community service are affected by every person’s example. You can develop a sense of DIGNITY and honor. You can make an incredible difference in someone’s life.

We need to value life. We need to be grateful for the abilities and opportunities that we have, not walk around in bitterness, with an “I deserve more” chip on our shoulder. A good life is built on a combination of desire, discipline and dignity. You must have all three parts, keeping your life in balance. Good choices lead to good patterns and good results. Mistakes will teach us, if we are open to growing up. With the first life, we learn. With the second, we begin to reallyk live…are you ready for the SECOND LIFE?