When someone talks with passion and talks from the heart, you can feel it.
 
When they can talk with passion and from the heart, and they know how to drive knowledge into your mind such that you not only get it, absorb it, and internalise it, but you don’t even realise the process is happening - that’s motivational and inspirational.
 
That’s the kind of person I want to be.
 
I forgot that for a long time, but recently I’m remembering it. It’s why I started Lick The Lard, to get people who want to lose and maintain weight but are failing, to look at their lifestyles from new angles and have “Eureka” moments, because I have presented thoughts and ideas in ways that strike home to them.
 
That desire was fired even further today, when I attended a training course. It wasn’t a boring “let’s sit in front of books” passive training course, but an active, involved session, using a variety of techniques and analogies to drive messages home. I remember sitting at break time thinking: “Damn it, do you remember when you had a plan to be a motivational speaker, Alan?”
 
And then suddenly I realised: It’s not outwith my reach. I’ve done something about it.
 
I am starting to be someone that motivates others.
 
Lick The Lard may not seem much at the moment, but I have written (on paper) pages and pages and pages of techniques, ideas, stories, angles to make people think differently, and succeed where they have failed before - assuming they want to succeed, that is. It is the start. It is a seed.
 
My plan, until today, has been thinking as far as the website only. In the other side of my brain, I’ve also had the thought of wanting to create and do something that will become an alternative career to me, something that I enjoy. I realise now that they are one in the same.
 
Done right, I can take Lick The Lard - and some of the other projects I’m working on - forward to motivate, and develop motivation into a career that fires me inside, and fires others into action.

Side not: I never realised that “outwith” is Scottish English. Just shows that I’ve not lost all of my Scottish roots ;)