You need Fire to Become a Professional Speaker
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Do you want to learn how to be on fire as a speaker and become a professional speaker? I like to Burn candles.
You’ll be amazed at what candles can do! Candles create such atmosphere and beauty instantly. These little flickering flames can change my mood.We have a picnic table on our back patio where, on many evenings, Tanya and I relax, play cards, and listen to Pavarotti. We watch the radiant California sun setting in the distance. And you can bet on it – the candles are burning! I travel a lot, as you may have guessed. Even on the road, some candles and nice music can turn even the most drab hotel room into a glowing retreat center. You can gaze at a candle and see it as a metaphor for your own “life torch.” A candle is luminous only when it’s burning…and so are you. When you become a professional speaker you have the royal opportunity to light a flame in a audience each time a speak. As a professional speaker I get to bring some truth and light up new thoughts and possibilities for the company when I stand to the microphone. I’m humbled by this thought and everyone who’s thinking of becoming a professional speaker should consider it sacred. For me as a professional speaker the following quotes summarize my thoughts here in this post.
“There isn’t enough darkness in all the world
to snuff out the light of one little candle.”
– Author unknown
“How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
– William Shakespeare
Loving your Professional Speaking Job
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“There are two great moments in a person’s life:
the first is when you are born; the second is when
you discover why you were born.”
– Author unknown
I had not always known that I was suppose to become a professional speaker. It became clear to me in my early 30’s that I had this “calling” or gift inside that wanted to speak and impact people’s lives for good. I did not know it was to be a motivational speaker at first but I knew it had to do with a becoming a speaker of some kind.
Did you ever notice how close design and destiny are? Your destiny is not just something that happens to you. You are its designer with interior motives.
I remember a time in my life when I was a marketer for a physician recruiting company. I was making more money than ever before, yet something was missing. I was reluctant
to change careers because I was over 40 years old, with daughters soon to be in college. For two more years I continued, trying to ignore the nagging of my conscience,
“Are you sure this is your calling? Is this what you were born to do?” When I could no longer ignore my spirit, I chose to pursue my passion. I wanted to have a motivational speaking career. That decision included giving up a steady salary and insurance benefits. That first year I made less than half of the prior year. Some of my friends questioned my choice. Even I questioned my choice.
Within two years, all that had changed. Today, I am living my dream. Both of my daughters are in
college. My work is “on purpose.” And I no longer haunting cries of a displaced spirit. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for,no wind is the right wind.”– Seneca
Here is a good exercise for personal growth. Ask yourself, “Why am I here?” Listen to your answer and take action. If you are ready to become a motivational speaker then attend our motivational speaker training course.
Authentic Professional Speaker Training
If you were to ask me what is one of the most important keys to success in a motivational speaking career this would at the top of the list. This is one of the first topics I address at my motivational speaker training course. This point is very dear to my heart as a professional speaker. I don’t even like the word “conformity.” In fact, I despise it. And yet it’s rampant. I think it starts in our school systems. We seem to have it on straight at the Preschool and Kindergarten levels. Children come in, they have fun. They eat snacks. You get to sit wherever you want on the floor. Little bit tired after lunch? That’s fine! Lie down, take a nap. Listen to stories? Play time? What fun! It was in such a flexible, dynamic environment that some
of the most eager learning of my life occurred. Hmmm… When we get to First Grade, the change begins.
“Enough individualism,” I believe they’re saying.“It’s time to conform!”
We now must sit in our chairs. The chairs are in rows…and every room looks the same.The conformity has begun. A child laments, “No nap time now?”“No, just pay attention and sit up straight in your chair!”
“No, you may not go to the bathroom without a lavatory pass!”It goes on.“Did I hear someone speaking or whispering? You don’t speak in this class without permission.”“Who brought these crayons? This is no place for crayons. You should have outgrown them by now. And by the way, the
only pencils you’ll use are #2 pencils!”(I don’t even see #1 pencils in the stores – I think they’ve actually been discontinued due to all this conformity!) We’re not all #2 pencils. No wonder Neil Poston wrote: “Children enter school as question marks, and exit as periods.”
In his motivational book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz concludes: “All our normal tendencies are lost in the process… We create an image of how we should be in order to be ac- cepted by everybody.”
In becoming a professional speaker you must-Be yourself. Be your authentic self as motivational speaker. Here is my shameless plug. Attend my Motivational Speakers Training school and I promise you it will be the most authentic and real training course you’ve every been apart of.
“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates
when he becomes a conformist.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grateful Professional Speaker
As a motivational speaker trainer I spend a lot of time on the road. Being away from home and family is the most challenging part of my motivational speaking career as a professional speaker. However, gratefulness is like a spiritual Prozac for me. I mean, I think it’s nearly impossible to be depressed when we’re busy being grateful. What is depression if not repressed anger? Gratitude extinguishes anger…and fuels the fire in that torch we all have inside. Gratefulness has been a key element I teach in all my speaker training classes for various companies. When professionally speaking to employees and managers I like to ask them to think about being grateful for where they live, what they
do, and who they serve. Yes, who they serve! In all my professional speaking jobs it is important to remind myself who I serve each time a step to the microphone as a motivational speaker.
I now live in Southern California, and if you’ve known me for more than five minutes or so, you will have heard me rave about how beautiful it is here. I always say, “Los Angeles is the best place I’ve ever lived!” One time my wife reminded me that I’ve said that about all the places we’ve lived…Boston, London, Phoenix, and Atlanta. I guess I’ve been purposely looking for the positives, no matter where I am. It is important to be grateful for your family and friends, for your job and co-workers, and for where you live. Thank people who have helped you, and give credit to others when it’s appropriate
(and, by the way, it’s always appropriate). Be grateful for your pets! Be grateful for a good movie on a rainy day. Be grateful for a good roof on a rainy day. Be grateful for rain……be grateful.
“What a wonderful life I’ve had!
I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
—Colette