TOP 5 LIES MOST MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS TELL ASPIRING ENTREPRENEURS

Last night, I sat in front of my desk analysing how far I have gone with my entrepreneurial dreams and I quickly remembered a lot of seminars I had attended as a teenager back in secondary school and a growing youth in my university days. There is this Mr Peter that always organises seminars in the university with the aim of selling a “get rich quick” booklet. Ah....there were plenty of his kind and you too can remember them. Most of us were desperate to get rich before 21 with these top lies;

1.     Buy this book and get rich overnight

 This is a very common talk that takes close to 45 minutes out of the one hour talk they have with you. every paragraph of their statements has “buy this book, it will make you rich overnight” attached to it. The motivation is more on the buying and making sales than telling the real truth and impacting lives. When you take a look at these set of speakers that sell these “get rich quick” books are themselves looking wretched. Let’s don’t get this wrong; a true motivational speaker won’t force you to buy a book promising you to get rich over night. Most of them will sell to you reasonable books that will truly impact ino your lives but they won’t force you either.

2.     You don’t need money to start a business

This is another popular line that is out of reality. No matter the kind of business you want to go into, there is always a start up capital. Most businesses can start up with very little capital while others need massive capital at the end of the day, this destroys their statement of “you don’t need money to start a business”.

3.     Business is not difficult to start

 This statement gives potential entrepreneurs false hope and when they start and see how difficult it gets, they give up. The truth is, the road to entrepreneurship is not easy at all but it is very rewarding at the end. There are many oceans one needs to cross, mountains to climb and battles to fight when it comes to starting your business and breaking even. When we have that mindset of going to win battles in the business world, it makes it easier not to give up.

4.     If you do not start a business before you are 40, do not bother starting at all

 This makes me laugh a lot. Just like education do not know one’s age, so is entrepreneurship. It’s never too late to start living your dreams in the business world.  Martin Luther had a dream and forty years later, it became a reality.

5.     Just start whether you know it or not

there we go again....another false hope. You can’t start a business not knowing at least 10% of what you’re going into except you want to be a blind business man. Before you venture into a business, learn a thing or two about the business. We all know learnng is a process; the few things we know about the business before we start and the ones we learn through experience while doing business.

These are the few talks I can vividly remember and I am sure we are getting to an entrepreneurship age where all these talks are bignning to be obsolete but still, we need to be careful. Filter what you can. Read great books. Learn from experiences. Listen to experienced businessmen or people in the career you are passionate about. You can comment on any other talk you think I missed out. Cheers