Breaking The Cycle

Introduction

YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING

EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY WAS POOR SO YOU WILL BE POOR

EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY ARE DRUNKARDS AND YOU WILL BE THE SAME

EVERYONE IN YOIR FAMILY HAS DIABETES AND YOU WILL TO

YOU WOULD NEVER MAKE IT TO UNIVERSITY - YOU COME FROM A FAMILY OF FOOLS

How many of you have heard such questions in your life?

How many of you can identify with those questions

Now let me ask you an even more important question

HOW MANY OF YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THOSE STATEMENTS?

PAUSE

Good day to each and everyone of you -

Today let those words that were said be true of others but NOT true of you!!!

im gonna repeat myself

LET THOSE WORDS BE TRUE TO OTHERS BUT NOT TRUE OF YOU

From today onwards we are BREAKING THE CYCLE

Repeat after me - today , I am breaking the cycle

a little louder - today I am breaking the cycle

One last time - TODAY I AM BREAKING THE CYCLE

What Does It Mean To Break The Cycle

Let me put it this way to you?

How many of you are always doing something that you know you should not be doing but you doing it all the time.

It has become a habit to you.

You will your mom - you say MAMMY..... I am going to study for my exams tomorrow - I am unable to wash the dishes

Guess what happens

Instead of you studying Chemistry - you are on your phone studying CALL OF DUTY!!

YOU GAMING COD

When end of term results come out we wonder why we failed our subjects??

Why did we fail?

It’s because a habit that we have that we cant seem to stop.

This habit that you have - it’s a cycle - and it needs to be broken in our lives otherwise we will find ourselves in serious problems later down the road

Let me share my experience with you

Talk about My results in Secondary School - show pic

My father had to hide my nintendo and i broke school a day

It was a cycle that needed to be broken in my life

What cycle do you need to break in your life today?

Today I want to let you know if I could do it then so can you.

Some of you may be telling yourself.

You don’t know me. I am too addicted I cannot change myself.

I like this quote I heard from Jim Rohn -

If you don’t like where you are MOVE - you are not a tree

HOW WILL YOUR LIFE CHANGE ?

WHEN YOU CHANGE!!

After seeing my results being terrible year after year I got fed up and I said

IF IT’S TO BE IT’S UP TO ME

Ain’t nobody gonna study for me!! I got to study for myself

Now if you are a fat person and need to lose weight I can’t go on the diet for you

I can’t go on the threadmill for you

You got to go for yourself

You got to break the cycle of eating poorly.

What are some cycles that need to be broken in our lives today?

Poor Study Habits - I said enough about my story which is probably your story

a lot of you may be suffering from poverty because your parents never had the opportunity to have an education

Today your parents are slaving themselves to help you get that education so you can deliver the family from poverty

But what are you doing in school?

If you would learn to study - you can bring your family out of poverty

Poor Eating Habits - Food - fast frozen or on the go

If we would learn to care about how health the way we care about our clothes, cars etc

Some people work so hard but upon retirement never got the opportunity to enjoy it

Some may ask

Why is it so expensive to eat healthy ? - having a heart attack is expensive - chemo therapy is expensive - Wait till you get the bill for not eating healthy - that’s expensive

3. Drug Habits - How many of you are from families who always drinking rum. They are always drunk. When a Father should be spending his money to provide food for his family - his money ends up going to the bar tender.

His kids have no food to eat and they end up starving. Neighbors have to send food for the kids because they feel sorry for them.

I am from Barrackpore and I see this cycle every week.

The parents love rum. The grandparents love rum. And If you don’t break that cycle in your life - the same would be said of you

4. Poor Spending Habits - How many of you get an allowance each week to take to school. How many of you spend our your entire allowance - you don’t ever save any?

Let me share something with you. If you’re accustomed to never saving any - when you get a job you would find yourself struggling to make ends meet.

If you get laid off your job - you will have no money becuase you spent it all

Some of you have parents who were layed off and have no money to care for you again

What are the cycles in your life that needs to be broken?

Everyone is different

What are some ways we can break the cycle

FIND YOUR WHY

There is a sayint that goes - HE WHO HAS A STRONG ENOUGH WHY CAN BEAR WITH ALMOST ANY HOW.

Do you know why some of you listening today cannot break the cycle?

It’s because you don’t have a strong enough reason to.

You don’t have a strong enough WHY!!!

Some of you are waiting to be thrown out of school before you decide to realize the imprtance of studying

Some of you are waiting for your parent to have a heart attack to realise the imprtance of healthy eating

Some of you are wating on a friend to die from a drug overdose before you decide to stop taking drugs

You need to have strong enough reasons

When you go home today I want you to write down some strong and compelling reasons to break the cyles in your lives

Find New Friends

PIGS DON’T KNOW PIG STINKS

I know this may be hard to do but look at what happened recently in Barrackpore

It made the news - this guy got fried up theifing cables and his friends deserted him

Those were not friends. He was hanging with the wrong crowd.

Inside the word friend is end - some people meet their end because of their friend.

Hang out with people who will encourage you in the right directions in life.

Hang out with the geeky, nerdy guy. He may not look cool but he will help you through school.

Starting tomorrow what are you going to do to break the cycle in your life

What are some simple things you can do to move your life forward?