Motivational speaker Orna Drawas delivered the keynote address to the 2017 Student Achievement Conference April 5, encouraging all in attendance to make small changes in their lives that over time would allow them to “unleash your inner rock star.” Her stories and messages involved some of her “rock star rules”:

1. Never let anybody else determine your future – only you control your destiny.
2. Network, connect and use the power of others.
3. Never lose sight of the few things that are important to move yourself, your life, your career forward.
4. Control the noise and distractions in your own environment that may be preventing you from succeeding.
5. When working with a team, make sure everyone is singing from the same sheet of music.
6. Be assertive when the time is right — but say what you mean, mean what you say and don’t be mean when you say it.
7. Create a goal, and then to one thing every day to make it happen.