The thought of Inspirational Speakers immediately conjures up a
swift thousand dollar attendance fee and pompous lecturers who go
on and on blowing their own trumpet!
But who says that you have to shell out a lot of money and catch up
with the latest gems of wisdom spouted by an obscenely wealthy
‘life performance coach’? A cover-all speaker may not always help
your specific field of creativity. The Internet is the New Seminar Hall
for the world today. Trawl your favorite search engine and you will
get up to ten-minute long videos on You Tube, which cover every field
on earth (and probably the moon too)!
If you are a writer, listen to Ray Bradbury, Stephen King or the scores of
successful authors who share their inspirational stories with viewers in
cyberspace. If you are an actor or singer or poet, there are thousands of
clips and interviews that you can benefit from. Make sure you keep a
writing pad handy to make notes and grab that one idea that strikes you
real hard. Listen to the audio or video clip with as rapt attention as you
would pay if you were in a five star conference hall having paid a thousand
dollars for exclusive attendance! Just because it’s free does not devalue
the advice in any way.
Many adults of today grew up reading Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to Win Friends
and Influence People’ and ‘How to Stop Worrying and Start Living’. Stephen
Covey’s bestseller ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ is a
modern classic self-help book. But numerous self-help books standing on
your shelves should not lull you into a false sense of security. Absorb and
practice what you read. Else all that you ingest will be merely excreted
without enriching your soul.
Some worthy names stand in the modern hall of motivational fame: Wayne
Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Anthony Robbins and Mark
Victor Hansen (Chicken soup for the Soul). Do not forget that the oldest
wisdom is the soundest wisdom. Holy books and tomes of philosophy may
be difficult to wade through, but if you take the trouble to get to the gist of
their messages, you will be richly rewarded.
