Mrs Motivation?

Work poses new challenges everyday, It's almost tiring really. I often feel out of my depth and brief thoughts run through my head of running away and finding a quiet corner to hide away in.

However, I can't, I must keep going.

This particular challenge comes after some meetings in work. I work with some challenging young people. Some because their behavior is difficult, and others because they are the most apathetic people I think I have met. It's heart-breaking to see young people uninspired, with no aspirations who just exist. Funnily enough it is these young people I find the most challenging. How on earth do you motivate an apathetic young person? I feel at the moment its quite impossible.

How do you get them into stuff, how do you get them realising what they are good at, how do you get them excited by life? How do you inspire, when someone appears to be happy withering away in unrealised potential, dieing in apathy.

Of course, I'm not saying that unless they are aspiring to be a doctor or a [insert typically successful job here] I'm talking about them feeling like they have purpose, and something to offer the world, gifts and talents they are necessarily career makers, but they help to give direction and hope.

I know that there's no clean cut answer, all young people are different and so adding that factor to the pot makes my dilemma even more difficult. I don't think I'm doing a very good job of it at the moment. I am not Mrs Motivation, although, I'm not sure I'm meant to be.