Beware of Motivational Speakers’ Success Stories
Motivational speakers are in big demand as many people seek to realize their dreams. They may be aspiring actors, writers, or entertainers. They may simply desire freedom from the iron grip of extreme poverty or deliverance from recurring, persistent health problems. Whatever their dreams or aspirations may be, they often seek encouragement in the speeches of motivational speakers.
While it’s a good thing to seek encouragement, if one seeks it in desperation, or naivety, he will often end up wasting his time and energy which leads to frustration on top of frustration.
Many of the success stories told by motivational speakers and in motivational programs, lack credibility due to the many missing elements that are never revealed. The speaker or the host tells of how someone trapped in poverty attained riches, being against all odds. Motivational stories usually involve the attainment of fame and or fortune unlike inspirational stories that tend to give an account of a miraculous rescue, escape, or achievement in the midst of adversity.
A good number of inspirational stories reveal facts in detail of how the person or people were rescued, escaped, conquered, survived, or overcame their obstacles. However, there’s hardly a motivational story that enters into detail regarding just how someone made a financial success of themselves–at least not within the last fifteen years. Listeners will hear claims of how someone started a website to get the word out about his product or service and how the responses came pouring in. This is just one example of how it appears that details are being given, but aren’t. Audiences would do well to scrutinize motivational speeches that take them from point A to Z skipping points B thru Y are missing.
To better illustrate this example, one may find himself motivated to have a website done promoting a truly worthwhile service or product after hearing of the success of someone who did similarly. Nevertheless, he will be in for a very rude awakening when, after his beautiful website has been launched for some years, no one but himself and some of his family and friends know that it’s there. When he checks to see how many visitors the site has received, he finds only one–and that one is his own visit.
What the motivational story left out are the details of how to get a multitude of visitors to the website to see the great idea, product, or service. Unfortunately, this is something that most people will learn the hard way as they attempt to copy not only this “suggestion” for success, but many others that, were they that simple to implement, numerous individuals would have long ago said goodbye to their money woes.
Although it’s good to motivate someone towards an achievement, it’s better to give them real tools they can work with in the pursuit of success.
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