(My Speech @ Toastmasters for Youth Leaders.. Its actually like my dream came true when I got this opportunity to speak to the youth)
This is one of the most cherishing moments of my life that I am addressing to youth. I have thought about this moment hundred times in my imagination. To share something that I wished I knew years before.
Dear Toastmasters, Youth leaders & distinguished guests, follow the conscious not the crowd.
Now what exactly conscious is, Conscious is your inner voice. The voice that comes from the real YOU inside. It’s the voice that has the power to determine what you will be in your future. In my teenage, the conscious was just a theory for me. The hard fact about me & many others is that we only know about ourselves what other people tell us. If someone tells us we are good at Maths & bad at English, we believe them & start loving maths & fall behind in English. If someone tells us we are not good speaker, we believe them & ruin our luck with our hands. We seldom bother to listen to the inner soul resting inside us. My friend who recently got in to a government job, for him to flow with the dirty flow of corruption seems to be the formula of life. Probably he is too occupied by the voices around him & he is not listening to his conscious that is screaming inside him.
What exactly I want to share with you is all about success. That is achieved by following your conscious. I have studied few of the greatest people of the world & I have discovered that the people who become successful fall into two age groups, 1- Become successful in their life at age 40 or above, 2nd who become successful before the age of 25. & I really want you to join the 2nd league.
Well the underlying factor of success for both of the groups is one, and that is Follow your Conscious, Not the Crowd. The people who became successful before the age of 25, they realized earlier the voice of their consciousness at their TEENAGE.
Let me give you an example of a person who is currently the world’s youngest richest billionaire. Yes he is self made world’s richest young billionaire who was always scolded & criticized for his routin.. His teachers & his parents complained for his wastage of time on Internet. Yet he knew what he wanted to do, and he was doing what he loved to do. He is the person who developed a website which is now the 2nd most visited website on World Wide Web.
Any Guesses whose the person is? Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg.
Dear youth leaders, discover yourself. Understand the reality that you are unique,. there is no one in this world who has ever existed like you.. The way you think, the way you laugh, the way you talk is different, even the inner voice in each of you is different intensity & of different approach. I can c 30 ppl sitting infront of me, someone conscious is whispering to bring change in someone’s life. & the inner voice of other is saying to become a world’s famous photographer.
No no no don’t get me wrong… Do ask for the guidelines, do ask for the suggestions, do ask for the pros & cons of the things you are going to do, but never let others to write the script of your life.
Remember this, twenty years from now, you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than the things you did. So explore, Dream & discover.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that keep the great people going was that they loved what they did. You've got to find what you love. work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
That’s what world’s scholar says, that’s what Islam says & that’s what the thing I wish I had learn early in my life….. That is …. Follow your conscious, not the crowd.
