Motivation Strategies

I am giving a speech in two weeks on Positive Self Motivation Strategies. This is a speech that I have given many times and is always well received. I like to review my speeches and enhance them each and every time that they are presented with the goal of continual improvement in my own speaking abilities and in the material that I present.

Over the next 2 weeks of blogging, I am going to do that very process of review here in this blog. It will provide some interesting reading both about the process of speaking for pay and self promotion and the process of tweaking material.

For today, I will just begin by looking at the topic...Positive Self Motivation Strategies. I like to gift the world with this material because I see so much negative motivation being used by virtually everyone that I meet or consult with. Stress, working under constant stress, doing things you hate because you must, these are the kinds of strategies I see being used around me all the time by very smart people to get themselves to take action. They use the best strategies that they have been given or that they have modeled or learned. Understand me, negative motivation works...it works really well...and used consistently it has the power to destroy you...to really kill you.

Negative motivation has its place. It is powerful, compelling and immediately gets your adrenalin flowing. It is also instinctive. We are born, particularly men in my experience, knowing how to react to negative motivation. Keep your head down on the battlefield or it might get shot off. Do this, or you'll be demoted or fired. Be late one more time, and don't bother to come in at all. These are messages that are clear and they are negative...do this or else...do this, or terrible things will happen.

So, enough of a review of negative motivation for now.

Will I talk about negative motivation in my speech? Always just a bit to make sure that the audience knows that I understand negative motivation and I feels, just for a moment, the uncomfortable feelings of operating from that place.

I will have a complete slide or sheet about negative motivational statements and feelings...this will be new for this presentation.

Enough for tonight...the positives are coming...Jack