Public Speaking Opportunities
If you love public speaking then you have to love Buckminster Fuller quotes like this: ”Everyone is born a genius. Society degeniuses them.” This quote is sadly too true for far too many. We are habitual rule-followers. Both formal education and socialization work together to “drive us along with the herd.” But it needn’t be that way. We can regain our genius. But we can’t achieve it by always following in another’s footsteps. “The man who follows the crowd,” Alan Ashley-Pitts tells us, “will usually get no further than the crowd.” Writing this blog post has led me to request this of you:
Be unique. Develop your own style. Break some rules, even ones that I’ve recommended. I insist! Recapture your genius. And when we couple courage and risk-taking, that genius will manifest itself in our presentations. I like what Neil Postman wrote: “Children enter school as question marks and come out as periods.” Not good but often true. Rid yourself of “periods” and any other conforming punctuation. Dare to be different. Dare to be very different. Dare to be yourself. Read more
Honored to be a Keynote Speaker
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After I deliver a keynote speech I want to ask my audience…”So, how do you view your life now?”
I want them to be filled with possibility for the life. I want their candle of the dreams and hopes to flame into a torch. I want to invite them to ask profound questions about themselves. Has the flicker in me grown into a flame? Is the fire burning more brightly as I leave this place and consider the keynote speech
? “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.”
This quote is very important in my speaking career. I carry this with me to each keynote speech and it was featured in my first book, “I’m on Fire, watch me Burn”. I want my words to have encouraged each audience member to burn their torch just a little brighter. I want to be thankful for each listener for those reading my books. For opening their mind, and for desiring to live life to its fullest. I am honored each time I get to be the Motivational Speaker and share my life with those in listening to me. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity.