Charla Huber: A convocation speech without all the movie clichés
This week, I was asked to give a motivational speech at the Royal Roads University convocation. I was honoured and agreed, and then when I started thinking about what I was going to say, I was stumped.
Obviously, that is my hope, but things can be hard. There have been times in my life when it’s felt like the only person who wanted me to succeed was myself.I shared that halfway through my master’s degree, I took out a label maker and printed off the date when my program would end. Not because I wasn’t enjoying it, but I needed to have a tangible finish line. I used that label as a reminder whenever I felt overwhelmed.
It was odd. I’ve never said that to anyone, let alone someone I had just met. There were a couple of other odd interactions, where I figured they were letting me know they were better than me. It’s interesting because when you are someone who has experienced a lot of rejection, rejection becomes less scary, less personal.
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