ha hello ladies and gentlemen it is time
for my yearly motivational speech it is
the start of the new year everyone's
making resolutions and I'm sure that so
many of you have made resolutions
pertaining to Japan or learning Japanese
coming over to hang out and stuff and I
know that 2012 is going to bring a lot
of changes upon my own life and I've
been doing a lot of thinking about you
know the future and where I'm going and
what I'm doing so I thought that I would
share these thoughts with you and maybe
we can make a promise to each other that
we are going to have the confidence that
regardless of what makes sense and we're
going to follow our intuition and we're
going to trust that we know what's best
for us more than anyone else unless
you're like still a kid and you should
probably listen to your parents the
first point that I would like to get
through to everyone is that there is a
phrase if you want anything done right
you have to do it yourself and this
applies to your life more than anything
else you can ask other people for help
you can ask for their support you can
contact people and ask them for
information but never expect anyone to
want what you want as badly as you do
everyone's dream is different and
everyone's dream is special what I
wanted to come to Japan I remember
asking my Japanese teacher if there were
any exchange opportunities available for
high school students and the first thing
that he told me was oh yeah sure but you
know you would have so much more fun if
you went in University as much as I
appreciated his help and his advice I
remember my first instinct at that time
being like yeah that's not that's not
what I want
I listen to what other people had
thought was best for me I probably
wouldn't be here right now don't let
anyone tell you what you should be doing
if it's not what you think you should be
doing always trust your intuition
because in the end if you're not
satisfied the only one who really
suffers from that is you so you've
decided that this year you want to make
a change or this year you have a goal
and you're gonna make sure that you get
there if you are a visual learner like
myself then this is gonna help you so
much we have a blank piece of paper
start with where you are now
and over here this is where you want to
be now between you and your future we're
going to write down the steps that you
need to take to make it happen you can
apply this to so many things try it with
any goal that you have see once you can
visualize all the steps it doesn't seem
that impossible does it finally this is
something that I read a lot in my
youtube comments and I want you guys to
stop it stop it don't ever ever forget
the phrase better late than never
oh I wanted to do an exchange in high
school but I didn't or I started
studying Japanese but I but I quit
really I think the biggest problem that
I've seen like from emails that I get is
that people want to be here people have
these ideas and they have these dreams
and they want to do it but they don't
have confidence there's no need to
regret the past or blame the past for
what you aren't accomplishing now
because hey you're never gonna get that
time back
figure out what you're gonna do now to
start moving really the first best thing
that you could do for yourself today or
this week or this month is to send out a
ton of emails and inquiries I'm not
saying this assuming that you all have
things that you can improve on but I'm
saying this because you know I've
thought about it a lot myself and it's
all of these things are a big factor
when I'm considering you know what I'm
gonna do this year in the future for
myself
and drop the pen if you don't make the
decision to do what you need to do to be
happy the only person who has to live
with the fact that you didn't is you
anyway so that's all I have for today I
just got I just got a giant-ass birthday
present in the mail and I'm really
excited and I'm gonna open it now so
good luck to all of you in the new year
and thank you so much for all of the
support that you have given me I know
that some of my earliest subscribers
have been following for like five years
and that's crazy
I love you guys so take care and I'll
talk to you soon bye