‘MTA Motivational Speaker Series’ – 5 Quotes from 5 Greats
More than a Motivational Speaker Series – 5 Quotes from 5 Greats
Title for series inspired by this endorsement: “More than a motivational speaker, Dean Lindsay is The DEAN of Sales and Service! Energetic, Funny and Thought Provoking, Dean delivered an outstanding presentation to our elite group of business people. We look forward to inviting Dean back to our next business event!” - Jeff Chernoff, President, Consumers’ Choice Award ®
5 Great Quotes from 5 of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Motivational Speakers, Authors and Coaches
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
- Leo Buscaglia
“Be prepared and be honest.”
- John Wooden
“The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”
- Viktor Frankl
“Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don’t get it, prune.”
- Tom Peters
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar
Be Progress.
Motive for Action – Another ‘MTA Motivational Speaker’ Blog Post
MTA Motivational Speaker Dean Lindsay VIDEO CLIP
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar
MOTIVE FOR ACTION – ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ Series
MOTIVE FOR ACTION
More than a Motivational Speaker Series
by Dean Lindsay – Author of Cracking the Networking CODE and The Progress Challenge
Watch video clips of ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ Dean Lindsay
As I mentioned in my last post, I got a great endorsement recently from the President of the Consumer Choice Award. Here is is again:
“More than a motivational speaker, Dean Lindsay is The DEAN of Sales and Service! Energetic, Funny and Thought Provoking, Dean delivered an outstanding presentation to our elite group of business people. We look forward to inviting Dean back to our next business event!” - Jeff Chernoff, President, Consumers’ Choice Award ®
It got me thinking about being ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ and MOTIVATION in general.
The word motivation can be broken down into two root words: Motive and Action.
Motive is an inner drive that prompts a person to act in a certain way. Motive is the goal or object of one’s action. Other words for motive include reasons, purpose, intention.
Action is simply the doing of something. Examples of actions include: Do, rent, read, act, try, sign up, show up, eat, move.
Motivation, therefore, is the inner drive to act, to do, to try.
Simply put:
Internalized Reasons Create Movement.
As William Shakespeare wrote in The Life and Death of King John, “Strong reasons make strong actions.” Often we fixate on a goal without giving enough focus and attention to the reasons behind the goal.
It is not a goal that motivates us, but our internalized reasons behind the goal that propel us to action.
As we connect with the fact that our internal reasons inspire our external actions, we begin to notice that our true enemies come from within. Among these resident vixens:
- Self-doubt
- Fear & Anxiety
- Impatience
- Lack of focus
- Procrastination
- Stress
- Poor self-management (time management)
- Misguided pursuit of perfection
- Fear of success
Many of us do not need to come to terms with the world around us. Instead, we need to come to terms with our own unrealistic expectations and poorly defined goals. Well-established reasons help us feel the internal pressure needed to focus.
We must dig to the roots and remind ourselves of the benefits, the reasons behind the actions that will move us forward. We need to do this for those we wish to inspire to action also. Being able to share with customers, clients, coworkers, and employees how they will be able to move forward by partnering with us is a major key to working and winning in this challenging world of change.
There is always some movement, but it is not always forward. Strengthen your commitment by continually reminding yourself of the personal benefits that reaching your and/or your company’s goals will have in your life.
Each day we have the choice to move forward.
Be Progress.
More on ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ in future posts. Thanks Jeff, great endorsement!
Be Progress.
Watch video clips of ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ Dean Lindsay
More than a Motivational Speaker…
More than a Motivational Speaker …
by Dean Lindsay – Author of Cracking the Networking CODE and The Progress Challenge
Watch video clips of ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ Dean Lindsay
I got a rocking endorsement a couple of days ago from the President of the Consumer Choice Award that got me thinking. Here is is:
“More than a motivational speaker, Dean Lindsay is The DEAN of Sales and Service! Energetic, Funny and Thought Provoking, Dean delivered an outstanding presentation to our elite group of business people. We look forward to inviting Dean back to our next business event!” - Jeff Chernoff, President, Consumers’ Choice Award ®
Awesome endorsement, right? Thanks Jeff!! Like I said it got me thinking: What does it mean to be ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ or ‘More than a Motivational Business Consultant’ or ‘More than a Motivational Teacher’ ?
What does is mean to create more than a motivational teambuilding experience, or to be more than an expert at motivational business coaching?
Several times over the years I have been referred to as a Motivational Speaker and at first I really didn’t care for it. I had this image of a Motivational Speaker as being a kind of smarmy, slightly plastic and over-the-top “people person,” who sprinted through crowds giving everybody high fives, before ascending to the podium to share his rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story. He or she might then encourage seminar goers to turn to their neighbor and repeat a soulful mantra like, “I am. I will. I can,” followed by a cleansing breath, a mindful hokey pokey, the sharing of a deep secret and a good cathartic cry.
I even read a funny cartoon in Fast Company magazine a good while back. It was of two fish swimming next to each other. One of the fish had a hook dangling from its mouth. That fish said, “Oh, it was a scary couple of minutes, but now I am making a fortune as a motivational speaker.”
But as I sought the fundamental meaning of being motivational, I came to realize that each of us has the need and the opportunity to be motivational every day of our lives. 
- Good sales professionals are motivational speakers
- Good customer-service representatives are motivational speakers
- Good leaders are motivational speakers
- Good Human Resources Professionals are motivational speakers
- Good parents are motivational speakers
- Good teachers are motivational speakers
I sure as heck better be a motivational speaker. You better be, too. Why else would others listen to us, utilize our services, hire us, be led by us? But we have to be MORE…
If we are going to have impact, true connection we must have the audience focus on how they can progress by taking the actions we suggest. We do that with great storytelling, creativity, and even humor. Whether you are doing a sales presentation, hoping to become a business author or public speaker, running an hr meeting or presenting a motivational speech, we must work to focus on the audience’s attention on how they benefit from taking ACTION.
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” – Stephen Covey
We each may be motivational, but the decision to be motivated is a personal choice. I can’t motivate you and you can’t motivate me. I may be motivational. You may be motivational. But truly, no one IS a motivator. The only person who can actually motivate you is you.
More on ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ in future posts. Thanks again Jeff, great endorsement!
Be Progress.
Watch video clips of ‘More than a Motivational Speaker’ Dean Lindsay
Endorsement from President of Consumers’ Choice Award!!
“More than a motivational speaker, Dean Lindsay is The DEAN of Sales and Service! Energetic, Funny and Thought Provoking, Dean delivered an outstanding presentation to our elite group of business people. We look forward to inviting Dean back to our next business event!”
- Jeff Chernoff, President, Consumers’ Choice Award ®
Rock and Roll. Thanks Jeff!!
!! Dean’s Video Chosen as one of ’100 Most Inspiring’ on YOUTUBE!!
Motivational Speaker Dean Lindsay was chosen as having one of the ‘100 of the Most Inspiring Business Videos on YouTube’ by Zen College Life, the #1 Destination for College Information Online. Others chosen for this honor include Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, President Barack Obama and Jack Canfield (author of Chicken Soup for the Soul). Cool, huh?
Book Review – Cracking the Networking CODE
New Business Networking Book Review for the CODE
Gotta LOVE Google Alert. Look what popped up in my In Box. Thank you Beth!!
Book Review – Wise-Cracking About Cracking the Networking CODE
By Beth Bridges 
My copy of Cracking the Networking CODE was loaned to me, appropriately enough, from a friend of mine while we were meeting to talk about networking. Dean Lindsay, Progress Agent™, had conducted a training session for my friend’s company. The first thing she said as she handed me the book was “Dean was so funny!” He writes the book in the same way, with a lot of humor and light-hearted stories. But he’s serious about helping people build their businesses through networking.
The book’s full title is “A Progress Agent’s Guide to Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships.” It’s a quick read with five main sections, broken down on the four parts of the C-O-D-E. Each section is full of lists, tips and deeper ideas. If this weren’t a borrowed book, I would go through each chapter and check off each item as I either developed the skill or worked on the attitude that Dean suggests.
For example, in the second section, he provides a list called “37 questions for defining a powerful networking plan.” You could use this in the same way that a small business uses a template to create a business plan. Answer the questions, one by one, and you will have an incredible blueprint for building a powerful business network. If you can’t answer some of these questions, then you are going to waste time in your networking. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a lot of time to waste.
Here are some of the questions that you absolutely must know the answer to:
- Why do you want a larger or better network?
- Who can help you build your business or develop your career?
- Why would anyone want to remember you?
- What do you have to offer the people you need to help build your business or career?
The questions build on each other, the answers to one providing the steps to the next. If this is the only thing you take out of “Cracking the Networking CODE”, you will be a far more powerful networker than almost anyone you know. There’s plenty more in the book, though, from the funny definition of a “mumpsimus” to a very serious discussion of understanding personality styles to make a great first impression.
Dean’s last chapter suggests finding a networking mentor, someone who can help you set your goals, show you how to network and encourage you. If you’re wondering why someone would help you in that way, Dean reminds us that most successful people have had mentors. I’ll bet he’s mentored plenty of people himself. You can get the same feel – of Dean encouraging and help you – when you read “Cracking the Networking CODE.”
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Beth Bridges has attended over 2,000 networking events in the last 7 years as the Membership Director and Chief Networking Officer of a large west coast chamber of commerce. She has invested in building a very large business networking library. You can enjoy Beth’s enthusiasm and use her experience to help you increase and improve your networking and grow your business. Try the Networking Motivator Newsletter for free at www.TheNetworkingMotivator.com. Get daily networking tips and connect with like-minded networkers from around the world with the Networking Motivator ™ on Facebook Copyright Beth Bridges, 2010 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Beth_Bridges Link to Original Post: http://ezinearticles.com/?Book-Review—Wise-Cracking-About-Cracking-the-Networking-Code&id=5498881 _____________________________________________________________ Be Progress.New Business Networking Book Review for the CODE!! |
Funny Sales Training Cartoon
Funny Sales Training Cartoon – ‘have sales do that thing’
Found this funny sales training cartoon today while doing some research for a new sales training program.
‘Sara, have sales do that thing where profits go up.’ – love that, funny and profound.
Question for sales professionals: “ What is ‘that thing’ you could do today for your profits to go up?
Be Progress.
www.DeanLindsay.com
Sales Training Speaker offers Dozen BAM Sales Questions
Sales Training Speaker offers Sales Questions for Becoming a Business Attraction Magnet
(Excerpt from The Progress Challenge by Dean Lindsay)
The BAM Dozen: 12 Solid Open-Ended Questions
Please find your own voice when asking these questions. We must be truly interested in finding a way to help.
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 1. How did you get interested in your line of work?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 2. If a journalist were to write about what’s been happening in your industry over the past six months, what might they write?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 3. I connect with new people all the time; how would I know if someone qualified as a solid contact for you?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 4. How would you define progress for you/your business?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 5. What major shifts do you foresee in your industry?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 6. Where do you see your greatest challenges?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 7. Why do these challenges persist?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 8. What difficulties will you face if you don’t meet these challenges?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 9. What actions are you taking to overcome these challenges?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 10. What results are you expecting?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 11. Who is involved in the decision-making process?
Sales Training Speaker BAM Question 12. If you could solve these challenges, what kind of progress would you make?
Also, encourage prospects and clients to expand on their answers by asking:
Sales Training Speaker BAM Bonus Questions
Would you tell me more about that?
Could you please elaborate?
Could you clarify…?
How so?
What did you mean when you said…?
Do not ask too many questions or ask them at a rocket-fire clip. People should not feel they are being interrogated. Being interrogated is neither attractive nor enjoyable.
Be Progress.
(Excerpt from The Progress Challenge by Dean Lindsay)
Motivational Leadership Quotes from Vince Lombardi
Motivational Leadership Quotes from Vince Lombardi
Coach Lombardi offered us many many great quotes. Here are many of my favorites.
“Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote-
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” - Vince Lombardi Motivational Leadership Quote
