Speaker - April 2012

RUNNING A BUSINESS ISN’T EASY.

Speakers, coaches, trainers and authors must be at the ready to help or guide others, draining our own emotional bank accounts. We spend our days motivating, training, guiding and uplifting others, but how do we motivate ourselves when no one is looking? How do we address the difficult voices in our own heads? How do we keep from inhaling a gallon of Häagen-Daz®, pretending it’s a therapy tool? If we cannot manage the conversations in our heads, the voices will become barriers to success. How do you make them disappear?

Here are some important methods to remember when you’re off the platform and the audience has left the building.

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

Turn a deaf ear to voices in your head that
are barriers to your success.

FIND A NEW THEME

Low self-worth is a familiar theme. We
teach others how to overcome negativ-
ity, but we are human and susceptible to
fear, doubt and worry. After the adren-
aline rush of a great speech subsides
and the adulations of an enthusias-
tic audience become a soft murmur,
those old themes return and get
louder when your audience isn’t
drowning them out.