Next week I have my first speech on my 10th season of Motivational Speaking and it’s hard to believe that the summer is almost over! This has to have been one of my busiest and yet most bland summers of recent memory. I didn’t do much in terms of outdoors activities, vacations, etc. Spent a night camping, a night at a cottage, but outside of that it has been WORK, WORK, WORK!
I’ve always made the claim that the summer is my busiest time despite the fact that I don’t actually do any speeches and there’s no doubt that this has been the case. The past few weeks I’ve been working 15 hour days, 7 days a week in an effort to get the schedule booked up for the year. I’m happy to say I have some MAJOR (haha pun) speeches booked for the new year including a trip to Texas for the Texas Association of Student Councils’ Annual Advisors’ Workshop. This will mark my first advisors exclusive Conference and I am VERY excited! It’s a new field to break into and should be a great group of people to work with over a weekend. I’ll also be giving a talk to advisors at the Maryland Association of Student Councils’ (ASC) State Conference in February when I keynote for the crowd and potentially for West Virginia’s ASC in October. If the West Virginia Conference comes through, it will mark my 3rd time in less than a year that I’ve been the keynote for a MAJOR (haha) Conference in West Virginia, having spoken for the SADD Conference last fall and RAZE (tobacco prevention) in June. It looks like it’s going to be the year of the advisor as I’m also in discussions with California to bring me out for the California Activity Directors Association (CADA) for their spring Conference in Reno–no Vegas, but somehow I’ll manage! 
All in all, I’m excited. Some great opportunities in some great new places and a great opportunity to improve myself as a speaker and as a fountain of student leadership information. My goals for my 10th year are 100 speeches in 20 different States/Provinces and to develop 1 new speech…a combo healthy living/Motivate Yourself talk that will combine my original speech and my new passion…HEALTHY LIVING! To find out more about my newfound love of working out and eating right, tune in next time…
Back to the grind!