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Professional Speaker Manual #5 – Motivation

1.Intro
a.Hook
i.How much is your health worth? More than your money? Is anything more important than well being?
ii.Most people live the way want until their health interferes – then they just want to escape the disease that came from their lifestyle so that they can hurry up and get back to the way of life that made them ill. There’s more to life than health and disease. Wellness is an even higher standard of comfort, peace, and physical and mental capacity. We can admit wellness is important, but few of us have realistic goals toward achieving more well being, and even fewer of us put it high on the daily priority list.
b.I want to suggest three things to you - that you:
i.Face the facts about wellness and your state of health
ii.Create wellness goals
iii.Achieve them
c.We have some Common Values and Beliefs here at TMLJ:
i.Self improvement is essential to a satisfying life
ii.Persistence and Discipline are essential for success in any endeavor
iii.I’d like you to apply your interest in self improvement to your well being, and do it with discipline and persistence.
2.Preview
a.Tonight, I’m going to give you some insight on the difference between avoiding disease, and striving for well-being.
b.I’m going to clarify for you what well being is, and what the benefits of striving for it are.
c.I’m going to make it crystal clear why it’s common sense to life in a way that prevents disease.
d.I’ll give you examples of wellness goals, and then tell you
e.how to increase the chances you’ll achieve them.
3.Stories
a.First, let’s talk about a famous writer who had a life-changing experience.
i.Norman Cousins
1.editor/author
2.life threatening disease, laughter
3.Anatomy of an Illness - "the life force may be the least understood force on earth" and that "human beings are not locked into fixed limitations. The quest for perfectibility is not a presumption or a blasphemy but the highest...