How I Help Parents and Teams Go Beyond Motivational Speeches
I’m one of those people who can really appreciate a good motivational speech. In fact, I keep a steady rotation of motivational speeches playing nearly every single day. By far, my favorite speaker is Dr. Eric Thomas. Unquestionably, “ET” has a gift that allows him to fire up even the laziest person on earth.
However, getting fired up has limitations. Fire burns temporarily.
Correspondingly, the motivation you get from a motivational speech is temporary as well. It doesn’t matter if the motivational speech comes from a parent, coach, teacher or a professional like Eric thomas, the motivation is fleeting.
If you want a steady stream of long-term burning motivation, a speech is not the answer. The answer comes in the work I do and how I approach that work. I don’t try to motivate the parents, teams, and athletes I work with. Instead, I create the environment for my clients to motivate themselves. As a result, my coaching style relies on three things:
- Building on strengths rather than fixing weaknesses.
- Using self-awareness to discover and tap into the innate motivations that naturally make a person tick, rather than using carrot and stick motivation
- Focusing on the minimum viable change needed for progress on any given day.
Once you do these three things, you then light a steady stream of long-term burning motivation that has the potential to burn permanently.