How do you give an effective motivational speech? In a sense, giving a good motivational speech is one of the hardest things you can do. Because people feel jaded, most people have heard so many motivational speakers over the years. And after a while, they all start to sound the same if they haven't seen them in person. They've seen their infomercials. The messages that come from most motivational speeches are the same.
Work hard, set your goals, overcome adversity. work every day on something you really believe in. Pick something you have a passion for. associate with people who are already successful doing what you love. All of those are perfectly good rules, perfectly good axioms, but frankly, don't mean much to people who've heard them 10 or 1000 times so if you want to stand out as an effective motivational speaker, all comes down to your stores, you've got to talk about how you personally did this, you have to reveal things that involve pain for you. You have to talk about how low you were before you overcame it.
And you have to give people a sense of how what you did is transferable to them. It can't simply be, I was having a tough day and I had a hard time with my business. I couldn't raise capital, but Oh, my dad, he's a billionaire. So I got him to give me a check for a million dollars. That's not motivational. That just creates envy.
Now, I don't want you to and some people are guilty of this. I don't want you to fabricate your biography and make yourself seem lower or more desperate than you actually were. But paint an accurate picture of where you were, what your problem was, how you overcame it, and then tie it together to how other people can do that, as well. Now, this is My own situation but I do know other public speakers and speaking experts who started off stuttering in life. So they went from speaking way, way below average, to way above average and many prominent speakers in the world. Jesse Jackson, Joe Biden, the Vice President, spent years of their lives as stutterers.
So that's highly motivational when people hear that they can go to such high levels of speakers knowing they started so far below So figure out what's your story? What have you truly overcome, that motivates people if you're born with some rare gift and everything came easily to you? might be interesting. It's not particularly motivational. People want to know how you overcame something and verse and how they can do the same thing. What is your secret?
What's your unique twist? beyond simple Hard work and focus