The 3 Myths about Beginning a Motivational Speaking Career
It’s time to debunk some of those false ways of thinking and bits of information, because like in any industry, myths tend to precede real knowledge. Myths often present themselves as barriers for a growing and thriving business that will hurt any public speaking career.
People often ask me the same kinds of questions over and over – how to make more money with motivational speaking or how to get bookings for motivational speaking. What these people don’t realize is that the answers to all of these questions come when they deal with the three myths listed below.
The first most common myth people in the world of professional speaking have is that money is bad. These people end up picking only low paying speaking engagements or worse yet working for free because it’s all they think they can get. These are the same peoples who are asking me how to get bookings for professional speaking. There is a difference between these people and the ones who use free speaking gigs as leverage to get their foot in the door or to build credibility and notoriety in their niche as an expert. These are the people who seem to think that money will come to them despite not ever being paid before.
Here’s what I learned. When I got serious about learning how to make money with motivational speaking, I decided to get “myself” out of the way. Once I got old ways of thinking and doing out of my motivational speaking career, I found that there were people who were willing to pay me a ton of money just to speak. That’s the revelation I got and the revelation you need to receive today!
The second most common myth in public speaking is that motivation is all you need. This is wrong! I teach an acronym to people about that kind of thinking – MDPYM (Motivation doesn’t pay your mortgage). Just because I was motivated didn’t mean I could pay my bills was one of the things I learned early on in my speaking career.
Now, I teach people to get rid of this kind of thinking because it simply doesn’t do much for them. In fact, I teach the people I mentor to get motivated by finding different ways to get people to give them money. As they learn how to make money with motivational speaking they essentially learn to start the cycle of earning to help more and more people.
One must work harder in order to make more money is the last public speaking myth I hear most often. This kind of thinking is incorrect! The hardest workingman I knew in my life was my Dad who never made more than $29,000 annually. My Dad was the model hard worker, but he didn’t get the kind of pay that he deserved.
You most learn to work smart, but that’s only half of the picture. The other half is working right. You cannot just be working smart, you have to be working right as well. People often are try to fulfill their egos instead of filling their pocketbook in this public speaking industry. Sometimes people are unable to market themselves correctly in their niche because they don’t have a clue about the kinds of needs that their target niche market has.
Get your motivational speaking career off the ground by dealing with these three myths in your mind!
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