My observations, for the last ten years, on what resources are available for personal and professional growth, and how people use them have led to one key conclusion. To a great extend, people don’t succeed because they ignore the most available and accessible resource—other people’s experience.

Name any human enterprise and chances are that someone has done something on it. Whatever your life’s endeavor is, there is somebody with knowledge or experience, and mostly likely both, that you can use immediately and start living the life you have envisioned. The use, expounding on existing knowledge and experience is the shortest and least bumpy path to your goals.

A few months ago, I wrote about how Lewis and Clark benefitted from a resource, Sacajawea, that they had not planned on when the left for the uncharted west. They benefited from her experience. How many doctors, engineers, lawyers or researchers just show up for work and expect to have spectacular performances without ever observing some experienced professionals

How do you make it a practice to benefit in life by using other people’s experience?

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It seems change happens before we learn about it and can adjust to what has just changed. You purchase new software and before you become comfortable with it, a newer version enters the market. For example the Idaho Statesman was sold by Gannett to Knight-Ridder Newspapers in August 2005 only to be sold to McClatchy Newspapers in August of 2006.

In the late 80s, I used to pay $12 to speak with my parents, in Kenya for three minutes. I would have paid $240 to speak for 60 minutes. In the last five years, a $5 calling allows me to speak for over 60 minutes, if I call landline.

What has caught most of us unawares is how fast the world is no longer “a small world” but a small village I used to call someone (not the operator who connected my calls), inform him/her when I was to call my parents and hope that the information would reach them so they can be at the telephone booth. Cell phones have solved that problem.

Change occurs with or without our approval or participation. Any efforts to resist the perpetual motion of change is like driving in a dead-end street—you run out of room to move ahead, and it may be hard to back-up. Workplace change has been hard as organizations keep reshaping to fit in a speedily changing world. The pain has come in the form of damaged careers, lost loyalty to organizations and distrust of decision makers.
 

Before you read what you will learn or the dates and times for the last seminar of 2006, take a moment and read what Clay Corner, a participant in the last seminar said. Here it is:

“Hi Vincent,

I just wanted to share with you how blessed I was this week by your seminar. The difference between Wednesday and today is that I now know:
1. That it is OK to get paid to speak
2. How to understand and engage my audience to create amazing results
3. How to market my services 24 hours per day

Thank you. It was worth a fortune.

I gladly committed to the next level of training and look forward to learning and applying all that I can. Just to let you know, I have received a bargain and would have easily paid twice or more of this amount or more for your services.”

Just a note—Clay is an accomplished national consultant with years of training in public speaking.

Dear fellow speaker, what do you make of a case like Jennifer Christiano’s. Jennifer got results from what she learned immediately. She attended the seminar and in three business days (seminar ended on Saturday), Jennifer appeared in the Idaho Statesman (100% free of charge!). In addition to the description of her accomplishments and services, her picture was also printed. This was just one of the tips Jennifer picked up from the seminar. Here is what she wrote after the seminar: “Vincent,…it was truly an experience that will enhance not only my career, but also my life in general , even my marriage. The marketing information you shared with us alone was worth many, many, times the financial investment I made to attend…you are truly an “Angel Along the Path” who is making a tremendous positive difference in my life.”
 

“Dear Vincent, I can't thank you enough for the opportunity to attend your "How to Speak and Get Paid" advanced workshop this past week! Your willingness to share your "tips" "strategies" and "must knows" of professional speaking was invaluable. The stories and examples made it obvious that every bit of advice had been time-tested as you learned the business. More important than just the practical information though, was the sincere encouragement you always offer. It is a reminder that success in a field we are passionate about must be shared to make us truly successful. Thank you for your warmth and wisdom! All the Best - Always!” Marsha McKinney, ARM, Owner, Simple Safety

There is one thing I guarantee my students—you will learn practical tips that will allow you to propel your fulfillment (success is not only elusive but also very deceiving) into new heights. You will live consciously aware of why you do what you do, the impact it has on the lives of other people’s professions or personal endeavors and the tangible and intangible rewards you derive.

Further, you will learn how to speak so that people want to hear you and pay (very well) for your words. The second part is to teach you how to let people know what you do faster without you investing thousands of dollars. In fact, I teach participants how to market with a zero budget…that is where I started and still use it.

NOW here is information about the seminar. We have about 40% of the participants already registered. DO NOT WAIT!

This course is designed for participants who want to get paid as professional speakers/trainers or consultants. You will not only learn your speaking strengths, but also how to make them financially profitable. Not everyone QUALIFIES for this course. It is for professionals who are want to make a SIX figure income, and have fun doing it.
 

As a leader, trainer, teacher or spiritual mentor, you want your audience to be informed, riveted and remember what they learned. I strive to create a positive and inclusive learning environment where each individual can participate and connect their past, present and the desired future. I do this with stories. Storytelling is not only my strongest presentation skill, it is my business’s life thread. The ability to touch listeners’ hearts and mind with stories is a powerful uniqueness that separates great speakers from the rest.

Here is an example:

Once upon a time, there was an ancient Far East community with a unique practice. Elderly folks, when about to die, were picked up and carried to the top of a hill surrounded by a thick forest. The top was relatively flat and had little vegetation. There, the elderly folks passed on in peace and tranquility.
In the community lived a young man who was an only child. His father had died. One day, he noticed that his elderly mother was failing in health. So he prepared to carry her to the top of the hill.
The agony of parting weighed heavily on him. As he carried her along, he occasionally felt something pull him back and then release suddenly. After a while, he looked behind to find out what was pulling him back. He was surprised beyond comprehension.
His mother was pulling branches off trees and leaving them along
the path.
He could not discern what this meant: A customary practice he didn’t know? Or something significant only to his mother?
But he knew that he had to learn the meaning of this peculiar practice so that he could pass it along to his own children.
He asked her why she was leaving branches along the path. His mother, already weak and now fatigued by the journey, with faint voice said, “Son, when you leave me on top of the hill, I won’t need directions any more. However, you will need to find your way home. I have left those branches to help you find the path.”
With that he finished the rest of the journey, said his sad farewell, left his mother atop the hill and sorrowfully walked home, guided by the broken branches in the path.

Few eyes are still dry when I finish this story. I build my speech on how each of us need to find out the branches that will help us live a life of fulfillment along our own paths. Here are a few, but most important branches. Because this story is too emotional, I tell a personal experience that moves my teary audience to laughter.
 

We discuss self-acceptance. Acceptance of oneself uniqueness regardless
of culture, gender, social status, educational background, ethnicity or any other narrowing identity is a beginning point. Participants learn how each is creatively created to be creative in a way no other person can live, act or
be them. One’s uniqueness should enrich the world differently from anybody else.
 

In this we discuss spiritual, professional and community related relationship, how we can enrich them as we derive inspiration, support and guidance in
the professional and personal path. Relationships provide the inward
tranquility and ensure our uniqueness an environment in which to soar,
to be beneficial to all.
 

To be successful spiritually, professionally, emotionally or in relationships,
one has to learn to move from a drawback (may it be loss of a job, death of loved ones, broken relationship, unfulfilled dreams) with enthusiasm, determination, new vision and restored hope. Past failures or loses should
be a point of reference but NEVER anyone’s residency.
 

At this time, I have one objective: to make sure that my participants will change to better their lives using what they have already. (I tell a story of when I bought a car with an “A/C” button. I never pressed it on for years because I had learned in African that A/C means alternating current. Then
one day a family friend convinced my to push it…and life changed). Participants identify their own “un-pressed” professional and personal “A/Cs.”
 

This is the conclusion for my speech, but the beginning of my audience’s
life after the speech. I want to tie in all my points with my audience’s immortality. I ask my audience well known names like, the first president of the United States of America. Then I ask when those famous people were born or died. The room becomes quiet, and people turn to see if there is anyone who might know the answers. No one does and the audience is relieved when I say, “I also don’t know.
 

Then I say that a dash connects birth and death dates on grave markers. It is what is within the dash that is important. Participants leave the room projecting on how they can enrich their dashes.
 

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