Today was the first day of two when I went into a middle school classroom to share some lessons about life. What a great way to impress our youth (I hope) and a great way to reinforce the values I want to live by myself.
The program is called “Choices” and there’s prepared content that helps the students realize the importance of their choices for the future. It covers the outcomes of your choices, time and money management, how closely aligned school is to working and how little time has been spent by the time you’re 14 and how your choices today will so greatly effect your future.
If you’ve never done anything like this before, try it. Having given thousands of speeches to tens of thousand of adults, I found myself a little nervous getting in front of 30 14 year-olds and talking about life and choices. Quite humbling and very refreshing. I suggest you try it as you’ll find the lessons you want to embark upon them (self-discipline, confidence, don’t be afraid to fail and learn from it, how best to use your “free” time, etc.) are lessons you want to reemphasize yourself.
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