Motivational Speaker

Maintaining integrity can be costly. But it's worth everything we expend to hold on to it. Personal integrity is the framework for all moral and ethical norms.

Dr. Armour's presentations on this topic show a deep passion for the subject. For decades he has coached executives through difficult ethical decisions. And since 1998 he has helped educators in Russia and Ukraine rebuild the moral foundation of their culture. These experiences have armed him with penetrating insights into what happens to individuals, organizations, and communities when integrity is no longer honored.

What ever else goes wrong in life, he has learned, we can hold our head high if we keep integrity intact. This richly illustrated, highly practical presentation lays out specific principles for doing just that.

What holds us back? What curbs our potential and motivation? The most common culprits are self-limiting rules — our personal hard and fast rules about what's not possible for us. How easily such rules go unchallenged, for they cleverly masquerade as statements of fact, as reality!!

Closely examined, however, they have little to do with reality. They are merely self-limiting beliefs accepted uncritically from the world's input. If anything, they are rules someone else has foisted upon us.

In this motivational presentation Mike shows how self-limiting rules anchor themselves in our thinking. Then he provides keys for replacing unhelpful "rules" with beliefs that are more healthy, empowering, and enriching.

Lost effectiveness usually means that one of three things has occurred. Either we've lost a singular focus on our PURPOSE. Or we're no longer relentless in our quest for EXCELLENCE. Or our PRIORITIES are no longer properly aligned. Purpose-Excellence-Priorities: the PEP formula. Work the formula, find the problem, and you won't need a pep talk to get you out of the doldrums when things go awry. (Which puts motivational speakers out of business.)

We often base our self-worth on how well we control things. As a result, when things go wrong, self-worth takes a battering and motivation plummets. Unfortunately, we have no ultimate control over all the people and circumstances that can sabotage almost anything we undertake – which means that there are ultimately few things we can control. In fact, there are only four. This motivational presentation identifies these four "controllables" individually and shows you how to make them the basis of your self-worth.

Every person you meet today is asking you one of three vital questions. Their sense of self-worth and motivation will depend on the feedback they receive. This presentation examines each of these three critical questions one-by-one. Mike then lays out practical ways to respond to these questions in ways that enrich the self-worth of people all around you.

We're usually pretty clear about what we don't want. We can picture it plainly. But when it comes to what we genuinely desire, our picture may be somewhat vague and fuzzy. Unfortunately, given the choice between a fuzzy picture and a clear one, the unconscious mind tends to steer toward the clearer image. Which is why we often end up with the very thing we set out to avoid!! So how do we make sure that we don't get what we don't want? In this motivational presentation, Mike shows you the secret of getting what you want, not what you don't want.

We often insist on telling ourselves lies. Lies about what we can't do. Lies about what we can't change. And once we accept the lies as truth, we clamp a lid on our potential. If we're going to insist on lying to ourselves, why not tell ourselves some "good" lies? Lies that strip all limits from how high we can rise or how far we can go? Now, there's a lie worth believing!!