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The News isn’t good,
Class of 2016
The Word is
You won’t have five jobs. . .
You’ll have S I X Careers;
The Word is
Only 27% of you will actually get a job related to your major;
The Word is
You will greatly enhance and most likely increase very quickly the 43% of Americans who have significant debt due to your student loans and quickly adding up credit cards;
The Word is
n o t g o o d
Well. . .
Speaking of
W O R D S
Do you remember?
Do you remember the any single word or cleverly arranged phrases at your Graduation?
What’s the most memorable graduation speech you’ve ever heard?
One that happened whenever you graduated?
One from when one of your children or grandchildren graduated?
From a Movie?
One you’ve given yourself for any one of the ga-zillion
G R A D U A T I O N S
you’ve experienced in your personal life
from job to job
relationship to relationship
health to illness
year to year
life phase to life phase
life lesson to life lesson
life to life’s many different slow deaths
You’ve given the greatest Graduation Speeches the World has ever known
most of all without speaking one audible word.
S E L F — T A L K
will do that for you
without a syllable ever being uttered.
Do they match Robin Williams
from his movie
J A C K ?
No
They far exceed it
The most powerful words you’ve ever heard
aren’t those spoken to you during any Graduation Ceremony
but the ones you continually speak to yourself
because they’ll either have you
settling
or
exceeding
not the world’s expectations
or predictions
but the only ones that truly ever
c o u n t :
Y O U R S
Congratulations
Class of 2016
Go out and conquer the World :
Y O U R S
Make your Life
S P E C T A C U L A R
Make T H A T
Your Life’s Work
and the World will never be the Same
Y O U R S
. . . O U R S
