THE MESSAGE:
Successful leaders know how ignite hope in others. They concentrate on strategies designed to help others in difficult and challenging environments. The key to successful leadership today is influence. This may come because of charisma, knowledge, wisdom and empathy but not ultimate, 'big stick' authority. Great Leaders influence others by recognizing and appreciating them in a personalized and genuine way.
We all need to be acknowledged. When we feel appreciated, it really makes a difference in our personal awareness, our outlook and our general sense of self confidence!
THE BLURB:
ADVICE TO GRADUATES
1.‘Trust that inner voice’
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| Journalist Ronan Farrow at Loyola Marymount U. on May 5 |
No matter what you choose to do; no matter what direction you go; whether you’re a doctor treating refugees or a financier making money off of foreclosures — and I genuinely hope you don’t do that — you will face a moment in your career where you have absolutely no idea what to do. Where it will be totally unclear to you what the right thing is for you, for your family, for your community. And I hope that in that moment you’ll be generous with yourself, but trust that inner voice. Because if enough of you listen to that voice — if enough of you prove that this generation isn’t going to make the same mistakes as the one before — then doing the right thing won’t seem as rare, or as hard, or as special.
2.'Make failure your fuel'
2.'Make failure your fuel'
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| Soccer star Abby Wambach at Barnard College on May 16: |
Failure is not something to be ashamed of, it’s something to be powered by. Failure is the highest octane fuel your life can run on. You gotta learn to make failure your fuel. When I was on the youth national team, only dreaming of playing alongside Mia Hamm – Y’all know her? Good. I had the opportunity to visit the national team’s locker room. The thing that struck me most wasn’t my heroes’ grass stained cleats, or their names and numbers hanging above their lockers. It was a picture. It was a picture that someone had taped next to the door, so that it would be the last thing every player saw before she headed out to the training pitch. You might guess it was a picture of their last big win, or of them standing on a podium accepting gold medals. But it wasn’t. It was a picture of their long time rival, the Norwegian national team celebrating after having just beaten the USA in the 1995 World Cup. In that locker room I learned that in order to become my very best — on the pitch and off — I’d need to spend my life letting the feelings and lessons of failure transform into my power. Failure is fuel. Fuel is power.
3.‘Save much of your time for reading'
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Father David R. Belyea at Fenelon Falls
Secondary School, June 1973
Beware the 'man of only one book'. Be prepared to expand your minds and to rinse them clean of ideas that are overly simplified, adopted carelessly by non thinkers and popular with radical preachers of doom. Strive to be a faithful deliverer of morals and ethics to those loved ones that deserve nurture and guidance.
The cheerful enthusiasm with which Father Belyea engaged graduates from Fenelon Falls S.S. on how best to activate sluggish minds was well received. He challenged them to share his personal convictions about the existential importance of asking questions. He aroused them to laughter by revealing his strongly held conclusion that Shakespeare was a Catholic.
The cheerful enthusiasm with which Father Belyea engaged graduates from Fenelon Falls S.S. on how best to activate sluggish minds was well received. He challenged them to share his personal convictions about the existential importance of asking questions. He aroused them to laughter by revealing his strongly held conclusion that Shakespeare was a Catholic.
4.‘Challenge all of your assumptions regularly’
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Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake at
Harvard Law School on May 23
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From my cautionary tale to you today, I urge you to challenge all of your assumptions, regularly. Recognize the good in your opponents. Apologize every now and then. Admit to mistakes. Forgive, and ask for forgiveness. Listen more. Speak up more, for politics sometimes keeps us silent when we should speak. And if you find yourself in a herd, crane your neck, look back there and check out your brand, ask yourself if it really suits you. From personal experience, I can say that it’s never too late to leave the herd. When you peel off from the herd, your equilibrium returns. Food tastes better. You sleep very well. Your mind is your own again. You cease being captive to some bad impulses and even worse ideas. It can strain relationships, to be sure, and leave you eating alone in the Senate dining room every now and then. But that’s okay.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
1. "By all means follow that!"
Ellen Degeneres
Tulane University, 2009
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means you should follow that.
2. " It's the same with marriage."
Eric Idle Monty Python Actor and Comedian
Whitman College, 2013
You probably remember the first time you got drunk. Who knew the room would go round and round and round? They don't say that on the bottle, do they? 'Warning: The room will go round and round and round.' So be careful of that. When the room is spinning, you've pretty much had enough. It's the same with marriage.
MOTIVATION
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A significant point in American history occurred when President Roosevelt gave the famous speech to a joint session of Congress, the day after the Japanese bombing of the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
An excerpt from the speech follows:
December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy... No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory... I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
2. Vince Lombardi
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
3. Rachel Notley
Some people in Alberta say we’re landlocked, and to break that landlock we need a pipeline to tidewater. I see things a bit differently. I don’t think we’re landlocked, because we are Canadians, and Canada has more coastline than any country on earth. I believe in Canada, not just as a concept, but as a country.
We’re in this together — creating jobs and supporting public services together, and working on climate change together, too.
We’re also together on getting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built. Recently, Canadians heard the news that the Government of Canada, with support from Alberta, has agreed to buy the Trans Mountain Pipeline, because it’s in the national interest to build it. And build it we will.
THE QUESTION:
Do you think Democracy will always prevail?
THE LEMON:
Awarded to Former Yankees catcher Jorge Posada in May 2011 when he pulled himself from the lineup because manager and former teammate, Joe Girardi, dropped the catcher to ninth in the order.
THE QUOTE:
"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable." Joe Biden
THE CLIP:
From my cautionary tale to you today, I urge you to challenge all of your assumptions, regularly. Recognize the good in your opponents. Apologize every now and then. Admit to mistakes. Forgive, and ask for forgiveness. Listen more. Speak up more, for politics sometimes keeps us silent when we should speak. And if you find yourself in a herd, crane your neck, look back there and check out your brand, ask yourself if it really suits you. From personal experience, I can say that it’s never too late to leave the herd. When you peel off from the herd, your equilibrium returns. Food tastes better. You sleep very well. Your mind is your own again. You cease being captive to some bad impulses and even worse ideas. It can strain relationships, to be sure, and leave you eating alone in the Senate dining room every now and then. But that’s okay.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
1. "By all means follow that!"
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means you should follow that.
2. " It's the same with marriage."
You probably remember the first time you got drunk. Who knew the room would go round and round and round? They don't say that on the bottle, do they? 'Warning: The room will go round and round and round.' So be careful of that. When the room is spinning, you've pretty much had enough. It's the same with marriage.ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
1. "By all means follow that!"
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| Ellen Degeneres Tulane University, 2009 |
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means you should follow that.
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| Eric Idle Monty Python Actor and Comedian Whitman College, 2013 |
MOTIVATION
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A significant point in American history occurred when President Roosevelt gave the famous speech to a joint session of Congress, the day after the Japanese bombing of the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
An excerpt from the speech follows:
December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy... No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory... I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy... No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory... I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
We’re in this together — creating jobs and supporting public services together, and working on climate change together, too.
We’re also together on getting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built. Recently, Canadians heard the news that the Government of Canada, with support from Alberta, has agreed to buy the Trans Mountain Pipeline, because it’s in the national interest to build it. And build it we will.
THE QUESTION:
Do you think Democracy will always prevail?
THE LEMON:
THE QUOTE:
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