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 

“THEY SAY. . . ,” you will not have just a job or more, just a career, but most likely FIVE of them during your life time.

Gone are the days of working for a corporation/factory/school district/job for forty years to leave with a nice pension, 401K and the proverbial gold engraved Watch.

It’s this time of the year with Graduation Ceremonies abounding that we hear of 70, 80, 91 year old’s actually graduating. Their Retirement, better still, their Calling has changed. It doesn’t matter WHO they were before…it matters WHO THEY ARE NOW!

Us too.

What are you fixing to Graduate? Most likely it’s not school–it truly may be FROM something TO something. What?

No matter what our educational background or expertise, we are all CALLED to DO…To:

Love. Have more Compassion. Care.

Are there any exempt?

Are there any who aren’t CALLED TO:

Be more giving…

Be more Unselfish…

Be more doing for those who can’t do back…

Be more Daring…

Be more observant of others needs/concerns…

Be more blind to ourselves…

I never once received a text or a CALL that directly told me to do THIS rather than THAT!

You?

Maybe there’s a real good reason for that….

IT’S NOT NECESSARY! We already know What to do, How to do and Why we should always be about IT!

No matter what our vocation, our career path, our years of experience or most of all, our age, we all have within us to not just DO, but to BE About Others.

It’s our truest of all Callings.

You don’t have to wait to start. There are no Degree’s or Certifications. No need to wait for any one to choose you or offer you a Position.

You don’t even have to be an expert or very good at IT.

But maybe, maybe that’s NOT our biggest of problems. Maybe the biggest of all problems is Not getting The Call…but just simply Answering IT…

Every Time!