In March, I had a spectacular honour: my alma mater the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto invited me to deliver a speech to the 2010 graduating class.

This speech is called the “Last Lecture,” and is a tradition at many universities stemming from a famous, inspiring speech professor Randy Pausch gave at Carnegie Mellon.

At Guelph-Humber, one professor, one graduating student and one alumnus are chosen each year to deliver some inspiring words to send the graduates off on their life’s journey. You can watch my speech in the player below (or view the speech on vimeo if you can’t see the player). It runs 19min15; so pour yourself a coffee.

You might know that I’m a writer and have done speech-writing before; but not many of you have seen me deliver a speech. I hope you like it, and I hope that the speech might be inspiring to you as well. I’d love to hear your feedback.