Some love motivational speakers, others can’t stand them. But you can’t say they aren’t helping anyone. Anthony Robbins practically sells out stadiums and I’m sure has change more than one person.

What is it that millions of people are drawn to them for? They hold hope for the future and answers to the most pondered questions. Would you like to be able to empower and inspire people? You probably don’t want to go cross-country and give talks to huge audiences but maybe you’d like to become a “mini” motivational speaker to assist your friends and family to follow their dreams. If so, then here are some tips on how to do it.

Open up

Let your friends and family know about your success and failures. Tell them about your dreams and desires, no matter how crazy they may seem.

Discover their dreams

Find out what type of goals and dreams your friends and family members have. Even if they are shy to tell you or don’t really respond, keep asking. They definitely have big dreams but might be embarrassed to share them.

Ask

Ask why they aren’t chasing their dreams. You’ll get many excuses, from “I don’t have enough money” or “I had kids”.

Explain

Explain that they are limiting themselves and deferring their life until it’s too late. They need to chase what they want NOW.

Plan together

Help create a plan with your family or friends. List all your dreams and keep it visible to everyone. Create a plan for the next year or for the next five years.

Take action

Empower everyone to take action towards their goals and do it together. Check up on them often to see how they are doing.

Tell some stories

Tell your family or friends about success stories you have heard or read about. Motivational speakers always give real life examples of people chasing their dreams and succeeding, so you should as well.

Make it fun

Motivational speakers are always energetic and fun. You will need to be too. None of your friends or family will want to hear from you if you’re irritating them.

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“Nothing endures but change.”

Heraclitus

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All right, so it’s the beginning of a new month. Maybe in March you didn’t accomplish everything you wanted to. I know I didn’t. Since we can’t go back in time let’s look to this month and make it our most productive month so far. Here are the steps you can take to do so.

Reflect

“Look” to March or to the past few months and recall what you didn’t accomplish. Try to remember everything from the biggest tasks to the smallest.

Plan

Get yourself a piece of paper or open up a document on your computer. List numbers 2 through 30. Since April 1st has passed, we’ll skip that day. You can start at any day as long it’s somewhat early in the month. Make sure you give yourself plenty of room between each number.

Now, for each day write a goal that you want to accomplish on that day. Start small and then every 5 or ten days list a large goal to accomplish. You can write several goals for each day if you truly wish to. But it’s better to stay with one task and stay focused on it.

Okay, so after you have all your days filled up (even the weekends) it’s time to plan on how you are going to get each of these goals done. Under each goal, add baby steps that you’ll need to walk to reach your goals.

Act

This is the most important factor to being more productive. Take Action! Get things done. Don’t hesitate. Jump right in and get things going. Once you get one goal done you’ll be quickly moving onto the next ones on your list.

Review

After a few days go back to your plan and see how you’re doing. Cross off what you’ve accomplished and adjust your plans if need be.

Get back to work

Get back to getting things accomplished. Don’t stop, at least not yet.

Stop

Okay it’s time to take a break. Every time you accomplish a task reward yourself. Make sure your rewards are proportionate to your accomplishments.

Repeat

Next month repeat all these steps. Maybe even increase the stakes, make the goals even bigger than this month’s.

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“Why do so many…settle for so little? I don’t understand why they’re not greedy for what’s inside them.”

Jack Gilbert

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