Amsterdam was a blast
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008My motivational speaking job in Amsterdam were a ton of fun here is picture from there.
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My motivational speaking job in Amsterdam were a ton of fun here is picture from there.
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Remember your passion.
“We choose to forget who we are,
and then we forget we’ve forgotten.”
– Gunther Bernard
There is a horrible disease in the world today. It attacks
people of all ages. I have coined it, “Passion Alzheimer’s.”
It’s a condition where people can no longer remember their
passions or their dreams. They can no longer recall their
desires or their purpose.
The fantastic news is that this ailment is curable!
Do you remember your dreams?
Can you recall your passion?
If you need a refresher course, read the book Discover Your
Passion by Gail Cassidy.
And scan over again some of the tips in this book. There’s a
lot of passion glowing on these pages.
Find the spark that will rekindle your passion. Rejuvenate
yourself.
In one of his last interviews, the truly inspirational
Christopher Reeve talked about the frustration he felt when
he saw an able-bodied person who was paralyzed in other
ways. He said that he wanted to tell that person to just
get up and go for it!
Remember your passion. Watch my video on being Passionate Professional Keynote Speaker.
Remember your passion.
“We choose to forget who we are, and then we forget we’ve forgotten.”
– Gunther Bernard
There is a horrible disease in the world today. It attacks people of all ages. I have coined it, “Passion Alzheimer’s.” It’s a condition where people can no longer remember their
passions or their dreams. They can no longer recall their desires or their purpose.
The fantastic news is that this ailment is curable! Do you remember your dreams?
Can you recall your passion? If you need a refresher course, read the book Discover Your
Passion by Gail Cassidy. And scan over again some of the tips in this book. There’s a
lot of passion glowing on these pages. Find the spark that will rekindle your passion. Rejuvenate
yourself. In one of his last interviews, the truly inspirational Christopher Reeve talked about the frustration he felt when he saw an able-bodied person who was paralyzed in other
ways. He said that he wanted to tell that person to just get up and go for it! Remember your passion.
They say it’s harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. So,
whenever I get a chance, I visit comedy clubs so I can improve as a Conference Keynote Speaker. When you go to a club, don’t let your personal hang-ups keep you from learning from these experts in humor. Can you look past the swearing, the off-color jokes, and even the occasional novice who tries to embarrass you? If you can, you win. The masters of comedy that I yearn to observe are the experts who allow me to relax, have fun, and to laugh—even at myself. Learn this magical technique and good
things will come your way. Think about it…one of the great pleasures from speaking is
to see an audience smiling and laughing, and ready for a truth. I’m there to study how a comedian makes an the audience laugh and imitate that in my conference keynote speaking.
As Professsional Business Speaker one skill and potential power you possess is the power of your subconscious. Overstatement? I don’t think so. Consider a few of the empowering thoughts found in my favorite book on the subconscious, Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by James K. Van Fleet:
• …[Your subconscious] is a source of energy stronger than electricity, more powerful than high speed explosives. Your subconscious mind is unlimited, infinite, and inexhaustible. It never
rests, for it keeps right on working for you even when you are asleep…
• …Of all the creatures on this earth, man is the only one who does not need to depend upon past experience to control his future. Another way of saying this is that man is the only one of God’s creations who is allowed to finish the act of Creation himself… …Your subconscious mind will react automatically to give you whatever you program into it, either real or imagined…
• …It is important to point out to you here that your subconscious
mind will not take the trouble to work for you if you do not believe in
it. Next, it is also highly important that in transmitting your message
to your subconscious mind, you should do so in the spirit that the
work has already been done.
Let’s apply these concepts to being a Professsional Business Speaker. To maximize your abilities, you must not just hope that one day you will be a better speaker, but already believe that you’re a
good conference keynote speaker. This is the key!
The vast majority of people I train and coach do not think this way. They come in with the belief that they’re not very good keynote speakers and are just hoping for some improvement. Of course, this belief is the opposite of what is needed to activate your subconscious mind to produce positive results. For most of my life, I’ve wanted to be a Professsional Business Speaker. Yet, I found that
when people would ask me what I did, I’d say something like — “Oh, you know…a little
of this and a little of that…oh yeah, I also enjoy speaking…maybe, one day, I’ll be a
professional speaker.” Even in the last five years, after having been a corporate motivational speaker in my company, I’d still tell people that I did training, worked for conferences, and sometimes
dabbled as a professional business speaker. But this past year, something phenomenal happened. I was on an airplane when a gentleman sitting next to me began talking with me.
“What do you do for a living?” For some reason, I looked directly at him and replied,
“I’m a professional business speaker.”
I amazed myself when I responded with those words. “professional business speaker”?!
Never before had I answered the question that way. And, even more amazingly,
my schedule soon started to shift. Fewer meetings, fewer trainings, more conference keynote
speaking. I had never done conference keynotes speech before, but that’s what I do all the time now.