If you've done what I've asked so far, you should have five messages, you should have stories for each one. You should have one signature store that really spells out your biggest point. And you should have a sense of how you can help people what the process is that you've done to help you overcome challenges and how other people can do it too. You should have all that, well, now, it's time to give a speech. Now, stage craft, meaning how you look, move sound on the stage, even if you're just in a small room at the same level of people is insanely important for a motivational speaker. Now, the reason for this is that so many motivational speeches have essentially the same message.
And that is I had a challenge. I had problems I overcame it through X, Y and Z working hard surrounding myself with this people being disciplined. So So can you the message So similar in many motivational speeches, it's the stage craft that will differentiate you. So, it's not enough to be competent. It's not enough to have your jacket buttoned and go through PowerPoint slides professionally. I don't know.
You gotta be compelling. You got to be interesting. You've got to be dynamic. How do you do that? Well, let's start out slow. Simply give your speech, videotape it, and take a look and see what you think.
Because if you're just standing there, or if you're grabbing a lectern, or you're reading notes, or you're reading bullet points off of a PowerPoint, it ain't gonna work. By the way, today of using PowerPoint, fine. You better not be reading text off of your PowerPoint. You have to be focused on On your audience, you got to be looking at your audience at all times, or at least 98% of the time. And you need movement, not pacing, not fidgeting, but you need to move around the stage and appear to be surprisingly comfortable, confident, relaxed. I'll give you more tips on your stagecraft.
But for now, I want you to give a speech. And it can be just in your own room, your bedroom, your office, and it can be just putting your cell phone on the wall capturing it, or a friend doing it. But I want us to do this first draft together. And I want you to watch how you look at how you sound and grade yourself. And after you've done that, watch it again without the audio on and tell me what you think.