Encouragement and Motivational Speech - Essay Example

Let me lay out your objectives for you. Many of you might passively be aware of them, but until these objectives are said out, they generally don’t enter your conscious mind. Accordingly, you don’t know what’s your goal. So let me clarify once and for all; your objectives are to attain and execute the highest level of scholarship, character, community service, and leadership.

When I say scholarship, I do not mean a Fulbright Scholarship. Well, it’s nothing less than a privilege to have one, but I mean to talk about scholarship in a more generic and holistic sense. You need to be a scholar, or at least act out as one till you become one. As they say, “Fake it till you make it.” It’s not THAT difficult, you’ve got to trust me on that one. When it comes to achieving big goals, it’s the little things that matter. Sleep less, workout more, eat moderately, think positively…so remotely connected to scholarship as all this appears, it is just as much intrinsically linked with scholarship.

And not just with scholarship, but also with character building. To build your character, you need to reflect. Make it a regular practice. Don’t go to sleep until you have reflected upon your day’s experiences. You’d realize and learn more. And hopefully, you would be able to apply more. You’d sense the process of becoming a more responsible son/daughter, sibling, citizen, and in the long run, spouse, and parent. “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth” (Ali cited in Rivanna Natural Designs, 2013). You would be a living legend many would cherish and adore.

But all this would not come just from character building, you would have to do some community service to be there. And when I say “some community service”, that means “a lot of it”. Community service can be done even by sowing a seed, watering a plant, and sharing the fruit of your own grown tree with others. You can get the motivation to do community service by having a firm belief that you would receive what you send around. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” (Churchill cited in Lycoming College, 2011). Whether or not you realize it, what you call “good luck” is the unexpected reward of some good that you have done in the past.

Based on what personality traits you have, identify the most suitable leadership style for yourselves and try to strengthen the qualities in yourselves for that. As David Lynch says, “I like things to be orderly” (Lynch cited in BrainyQuote, 2014), look at what you like and strive to achieve that.