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Alex Ellis, Ph.D., said his keynote speech to 120 middle and high school students from across New Mexico included “tools they can use that will equip them to fulfill their dreams.”
Ellis was speaking at the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Conference held June 1-4 in Las Cruces.
Ellis also spoke about the power of affirmations, asking students, “What are you saying to yourself?” Resilience is essential to success because “you will get more noes than yeses, Ellis said. It’s important to learn when you receive a no, to say, “’Okay. Thank you,’ and move on,” telling yourself, “You just weren’t the one to give me the yes,” he said.
“Your dream has got to be bigger than you,” Ellis said, using Martin Luther King Jr. as an example.
“He achieved his dream liberating people and fighting for justice,” Ellis said, as he told students to “make sure their dream is big enough … it benefits someone other than themselves.”
Ellis is a transformational speaker based in Brunswick, New Jersey.
Speakers at the conference’s closing dinner, held Saturday night, June 3, at Amador Live, included New Mexico Black Education Act liaison Kim York, New Mexico Martin Luther King Jr. State Commission Executive Director Leonard Waites and Anthony Kennedy of the Good Humans organization.
Conference participant Pierre Williams won an X-box during the dinner, as he correctly recited from memory all six of Martin Luther King’s principles of nonviolence.
