Self Motivation | Brendan Clark | TEDxYouth@BarnstableHS

Thank you for such a wonderful introduction. Uh great.

Um I'm here today to talk about motivation.

And I've learned uh in my few years on this earth

that motivation is really the key to affecting change in anything that you do.

You can put a paper that was written without any motivation, without any effort.

And you can put a paper that was written with drive and passion next

to each other and

it's clear which one is the winner.

Motivation is the underlying factor.

I I believe in everything that we do on a daily basis.

If you don't have motivation

in something that you do, then you you really can't achieve what it is

that you want to achieve.

Everyone has motivation for things that they're passionate about, things that interest you, things that inspire you.

And of of course you'll have motivation if if you play a sport, if

you're in drama, if you're in band, you'll have motivation to accomplish that task.

But the true test of of finding motivation

is if you can find it in something that doesn't interest you.

Personally, I'm interested in sitting through town council

meetings and reading the 404

page town of Barnesville budget,

but others might not find so much paper so

However, motivation can be found in everything that you do.

I like to look at it

in terms of finding motivation

as just putting yourself in someone else's shoes.

When you're questioning, why do I have to do this?

Why do I have to put in the time?

Why do I have to put in the effort?

you can just look at what you're doing

and say this helps this person because

or this person is going to appreciate

my effort and my motivation on this task because

and I've always found that that appreciation

that others have for the effort that you put in

that that's what motivates me the fact that someone's going to appreciate what I did.

So when the teacher gives you a paper or or or something to do

and and you say this is stupid

I have better things to do.

I'd much rather go outside and throw a football.

what whatever it is,

look at it and

say this this person is going to appreciate the work.

This person put in the effort to create the assignment.

Now they're going to see it and they're going to appreciate it.

And I I I do that in every assignment that I'm given and everything

that that that is ever brought before me.

And that's always something that I think we need to go out and look

at when we when we go out to tackle an issue.

Filing papers, people might not find it interesting, but

think about how much help you're doing to somebody else.

Think about the responsibility

that you're helping someone else fulfill.

And that sort of help and appreciation motivates you.

For me, fine dressing is is something that I like to do every single day.

And I don't just do it because I enjoy it.

I do it because people appreciate it.

People see that I took the extra time to prepare myself for whatever it

is that I'm doing.

And they thank me for it.

And that that thanks that appreciation

is truly what motivates me to go out and do whatever it is that

is put before me.

So I want to finish briefly.

just by saying that

motivation is so important

in anything that you do and without it

you really can't accomplish what you want but with it you have the passion

to affect change you have the passion to make a difference and you really

do have the passion to go out and change the way things are done

and make a difference in anything that you want to do.

Thank you for your time and your ears.