Authentic Professional Speaker Training

December 1, 2008 by admin
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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

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