End of Year Motivational Speaker Reflection
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community…as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life, for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a splendid torch, which I’ve got hold of for the moment. And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible, before handing it on to future generations.” George Bernard Shaw
As you enter the new year and complete another year it is good to reflect. I have a question for you that may help guide you in this exercise. How do you view your life today? Is your life like a candle…or is it a firey torch? How would your partner or close friends describe it? Is it just flickering or is it burning brightly?
Throughout your life, we’ve all had many opportunities and privileges of life in such a free land as America. As a motivational speaker you will experience some of the most rewarding work in speaking to people and helping them find motivation and inspiration in their lives… to help light their flame. In becoming a motivational speaker you get impact the lives of others and share hopes, fears, strategies, laughter, and warmth with your audience. All men and women who enter this profession will not only be a giver but you’ll receive countless, remarkable blessings and you absorb the qualities in others that you meet along the way. Do you make an effort every day to make sure your internal flame is burning brightly? When you do this people take note and it will be the key to your success as a motivational speaker. Olympic flame gets passed on from one person to the next, I, too, in my speaking job want to honor others and hand to them some of the inspiration I’ve been given.
Crafting a Killer Motivational Speech
A big common misconception of becoming a motivational speaker is that a lot of people feel like if they have the right information, and have enough knowledge in any particular area they have a keynote speech. What I have learned is having knowledge and wisdom is part of being a great motivational speaker. How it is presented is every bit as important if not more important, than the information you present as a motivational speaker.
First, you must understand that you are not an information speaker but a motivational speaker. It doesn’t matter what your speech is about as much as how your speech touches people. How it is delivered and how you say it. Let me illustrate an important point about being in the motivational speaker business.
Did you ever see the documentary that came out about the Titanic a few years before the blockbuster movie did? The documentary was unbelievable. Someone had spent a lifetime of research, and found out every fact, detail, that involved that ship. This is new stuff that a lot of people hadn’t even heard before. It was an incredible two-hour documentary, but you havn’t heard of it and neither have I, and it didn’t make any money because no one really cared to see a documentary on the Titanic two or three years after that the Titanic movie comes out. Was the movie true in every sense of the facts, no. Did everything happen the way the movie said, no. The difference in the two films was that the Titantic movie won more Oscars than any movie in the history of cinema. There in lies the Read the rest of this entry »
Funny is Money for Motivational Speakers
This will sound a bit over-simplified but one reason motivational speakers get hired is to make audiences laugh. As is often said in the speaking businees and among speaking bureaus is that If you are funny keynote speaker then you are a money speaker! The last time I spoke internationally was in Amsterdam and I did my keynote speech in english with an interpreter. You guessed it…. I not only used motivational quotes but I used humor in my speech and got a roar of laughter even through an intepreter who translated my jokes into Dutch. Some people are not naturally funny nor do they have humorous personality. But you can’t settle for that because, like it or not, speaking is the entertainment business. You can be trained to deliver great humor each time you speak and audience will fall in love with you. One solution is to find a successful motivational speaker and study how they use humor in their speaking. Let me say it a different way if those keynote speakers can’t make people laugh then they will not be as successful in their speaking career.
Here are 5 Reasons why you need to make your audience laugh as motivational speaker. Read the rest of this entry »
The highest paid employees are speakers
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