Do you have a passion for public speaking?

Do you
want to get your message out to people and companies
but arent sure where to start?

Ive had a wonderful speaking career that has spanned

for over 30 years. Im going to tell you about how I
became a public speaker, and give you some tips Ive
learned along the way to help you do the same.

An enormous number of professional speakers start off

the same way:

They start off speaking in their organization or in their

company or sometimes will be asked to talk on their
subject to a small group of people within their
industry. They put together some notes and share what
they know.

When people respond positively, the speaker will

suddenly realize that they really enjoyed it too. And that
is one of the main reasons people want to get into
speaking.

Keep reading and let me give you some tips I learned on

the road to becoming a motivational speaker:

1) You Have To Really Want A Public Speaking Career

My friend Bill Gove who used to be one of the top
speakers in America, would be approached by people
all the time telling him they wanted to be speakers.

He would ask the question, Why?

Often they would tell him they wanted to be famous, or

make a lot of money and be a star on the stage.

He pointed out that these were not good enough

reasons. Just to want to make money and have fame
were not good enough reasons.

The reason why successful people are successful in

speaking is because they have a burning message that
they want to share, that people can really benefit from.

2) How Zig Ziglar Started Speaking

Zig Ziglar, who is one of the great and legendary

motivational speakers, used to say that he gave 3,000
talks before he was paid for the first one.

I worked with Zig for years, traveling and speaking

together. I finally found out that what he meant was that
he started off in sales and then trained sales people
for a decade or more.
Every morning he would give a little sales talk to his
people. He would tell little stories and give little
motivational and sales tidbits, and that was his
beginning.