Having studied the motivational seminar market over the last few years, I have to share my view of these and the chances they have of really helping people. I tend to break these down into basically Motivational and Action strategies Camps. Some of them does try to blend the two but for this post, I will look at the strategies mostly as separate.
Motivational Strategies
The majority of training and seminars out there that speaks about success generally falls into the arena of motivational at least for me. The big names such as Tony Robbins and the likes tries to speak about how you can do better. On the one hand, it may be hard to hold a motivational speaker to anything as in the end, its always dependent on you. This is why most presenters focus on this side things for legal and long term business point of view.
What can you get from this motivational phase? generally this is where you get the zest for life to be more positive about things, to think that you can be anything that you want in life. In fact if you don’t get this aspects right, the other stage may not go well for you. The next important lesson at this stage is how to look at failures. Most times people approach this thing as smooth ride but not prepared for setbacks especially related to failures etc. They need to see failure as feedback. There is something that will work but you have to be willing to take action and learn from the actions.
In the end, motivation should get you to think big. To put some of my religious belief into this argument, I believe God made us to be God ourselves. This means we can get the whole universe if we do what is right in our lives. Notice that CEOs and executives are not pound for pound the brightest people in any organization but they had the confidence to step up to the plate.
Action Strategies
These programs are focused on specific strategies to generate wealth. A good example would be Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki with their focus on Real Estate strategies. This one is harder to pin down for each individual as its the stage where you should focus on what you really love.
The main thing to get out of these programs is how to go about starting a venture and managing it. The key is to learn leveraging. The bigger you want to get, the more leverage you need to have. This leverage is in terms of skill people and capital.
You can approach action strategies in two ways. The first is in the context of you being actively involved in a venture to bring it to realization and it becomes part of your everyday life. Example of this is when you decide you want to be CEO of a company, you need to do things that will allow you to make strides within the company or the industry. The second approach is where your general interest does not make money itself but you need some means to generate an income. This is basically approaching ventures as an investor so to speak.
Summary:
In the end, the key to get from all of these is that you have a great potential which means you should change for the worrisome and can’t do attitude to a world of possibilities. Now this possibility could take time to happen based on your circumstances but you need to realize that moving in a certain direction is critical.
All of this needs to be done in a moral context. Don’t try to sell ice to Eskimos as something else or trade illegal drugs etc. Do all you want to do above broad and in fact you will feel much better spiritually with your success.
The one generic thing you can get from these is the discipline to succeed and develop habits that leads in that direction. lets be fair, sometimes success is just to feel good about yourself regardless of where you are in life.
