Proven Ideas for Teens to Use I have spent the better part of 15 years motivating teens.
After a lot of work, this is the advice that I have distilled for them.
This is what I tell them: 1.
The only one standing between you and success is you! 2.
Be the best that you can be.
Everyone's personal best is different, but whatever yours is, be it! Do more than expected, never less.
3.
Always do the right thing.
Be a nice person, respect others.
Be kind and considerate.
4.
Be positive.
Keep your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole.
Positive thoughts will manifest into the real thing! You may have started to think that my words of motivation are very "adult" and beyond the grasp or appreciation ofHigh School students.
Not so.
The very point of my book is that we have not fully recognized the grasp that children do have of their potential and that they do possess a vision of their own futures.
I just want to help them capture that euphoria and run with it.
In the book are just a few pages of the comments I have received from students attending the lectures.
Read their comments.
Some are profound.
Some are humorous.
All are sincere.
They are not here to be self serving, but to demonstrate the reaction of teenagers to honest (and measured)adult advice.
When they sense that you are "on their side" and that you understand their ideas, it is easy/easier to communicate.
I believe that honest communication helps empower children.
In the 90 minutes of my talk, I do manage to give them some specific advice as well as the emotional/motivational "talk.
" For instance, I encourage advanced education.
And for those who cannot afford it, I have researched for them some scholarship opportunities.
Private money scholarships in this countryare unfunded by as much as 80%.
That means that only 20% of theprivate money available actually results in a scholarship! There are millions of dollars available from private sources for which students never apply.
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