YouTube Role Models

If you want to be a great motivational speaker the good news is you have fantastic role models all over the world.

But right in front of you.

They’re at your fingertips.

All you have to do is type names in on YouTube and you can see great motivational speakers doing what they do best.

Speaking so that’s your homework here.

Go to YouTube type in motivational speakers.

If you have those you already like type them in and look at them and look at a whole range.

Look at the Anthony Robbins the zigzag lawyers look at left wing ones right wing ones non-religious ones Joel Osteen is a fantastic speaker whether you agree with his message or not.

So I would urge you to really study the craft of what they do.

Look at how they frame their arguments their stories.

More important than arguments they’re emotion and study how they pause.

The best speakers in the world typically pause the most.

That doesn’t mean you can just come out say nothing for five minutes and walk off.

But I want you to look at every single thing about how they come across.

Look at the ones you like the most.

And then watch that video.

Maybe five or six times you’ll learn something new each time when you’re not listening to the words as carefully look at how they use the whole stage.

I saw Zig Ziglar a few years before he passed away on a stage in front of 15000 people to a huge arena in New Jersey.

And he was a master at the stage he used every inch of the stage of his height.

There was just constant variation in how he looked how he moved and how he sounded.

You can learn from that even if you think the message was full of baloney.

So that’s your homework.

Spend some time on YouTube.

Seek out the best seek out people you don’t think are the best.

And you know what.

Learn from the worst two.

I urge you type in Chris Farley Saturday Night Live impersonation of motivational speaker and you’ll see something hilarious and it’s really mocking sort of the worst aspects of motivational speaker.

So that’s your homework right now.

Find some speakers cross range and then come up with two or three who we were your absolute favorite.

Try to watch every speech they’ve given.