Daily Inspiration: "You don't need a motivational speaker. You just need a motivational future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
When people ask me what I do for a living, I will often offer up that I'm a speaker - after all, sometimes it's hard to explain what a 'futurist' does. The question inevitably comes back, "Oh, are you a motivational speaker?" To which I respond, "Not really." This leads to a rather quizzical look.
Am I a motivational speaker? Not at all, I guess. I will note that I think I can be pretty inspirational and motivational on stage. I have never quite understood why people need a 'motivational' speaker. Isn't knowing about the wonders of tomorrow good enough to get you going?
Ah, motivational speakers. it's certainly a world very different from what I do.
Have I told you about the office of Tony Robbins? They reached out to me. Tony, of course, is the most motivational of all the motivational speakers out there. His team asked if I might fly to Miami to participate in one of his 'Power Within' events.
Sure, I wrote back in an email; here's my fee. They never responded. I took a look at the Website for the event and saw that he was charging about $10,000 for people to attend. He's probably pretty motivated with fees like that, particularly if he can get others to help him out in some sort of motivational serfdom.
I wasn't very motivated to help him earn that $10,000 by working for free, LOL.
