Lesson from Barack Obama keynote Speech in Scranton

Amazing Barack Obama keynote speech in town hall meeting in Scranton, PA on April 1, 2008 about working with Republicans. Let’s check out this Barack Obama keynote speech and find out why he is emphasizing about changing!

Barack Obama speech is very straight to the point. Sometime we really need to ask ourself that, when is the last time we checked what we have overcome? If you have a dream to become successful in your life, we need to have the ability to change - that’s changing our thought, words and attitude.

I do understand that, people do not like to change because that is the nature of human being (and i am also struggling with some of my bad habits). So what shall we do if we decide to change? Don’t worry, let’s find out how to overcome it by asking yourself these 3 simple questions.

1) What are you focusing on?

2) What does it means to you?

3) What are you going to do?

Let’s do a practice here:-

1) What am i focusing on?
- i want to quit smoking

2) What does it means to me?
- Because i want to have a healthy life
- Because my girl don’t like it
- Because smoking is wasting money
-….. (jot down as many reasons as you can, minimum 10 reasons)

3) What am i going to do?
- Reduce the smoking amount from 10 times to 2 times per day
- completely quit smoking within a month
- …. (you need to set goal and start reduce the quantity or replace it with other activities,do not rush into it)

Lastly, you have to believe in yourself that you are changing. Every great histories started with the small changing by somebody.