Collection of Motivational Speakers

Q: I know I am being impatient but I am tired of being single. I am so desperate to be with someone that I would be willing to take anyone right now! Why am I like this? A: Listen to your instincts great man, they are trying to protect you. Yes, there is a force driving to meet the desires of your empty heart; but, are you dropping the true authenticity of your desires to in order to fulfill it? For my full response, watch the video and read the whole article on The Good Men Project, right  HERE . As their newest columnist, you can continue to find amazing articles likes this and more so continue to check out my column Awaken Your Badass Nobility. You can many of my Q&A videos on YouTube, so please be sure to subscribe to  my channel ! Also, If you have a burning question about love, dating or life in general for me, comment below, or ask me on Twitter  @AllanaPratt  and just use #AllanaQandA. The post Too Desperate for Love appeared first on Allana Pratt . via Allana Pra

Q: I can’t believe my husband was home for five hours and didn’t even take the time to help out around the house. Don’t get me wrong, he is a good man but completely blind to doing anything that would help me. Are men truly this oblivious? A: Sweet sister, I can feel your frustration. I honor that you do so much for your family; however, it looks as if you may be projecting the lack of acknowledgement onto your husband. For my full response, watch the video and read the whole article on The Good Men Project, right  HERE . As their newest columnist, you can continue to find amazing articles likes this and more so continue to check out my column Awaken Your Badass Nobility. You can many of my Q&A videos on YouTube, so please be sure to subscribe to  my channel ! Also, If you have a burning question about love, dating or life in general for me, comment below, or ask me on Twitter  @AllanaPratt  and just use #AllanaQandA. The post Doesn’t Life a Finger to Help appeared first on

Q:  Allana, I went to reconnect with an old girlfriend and discovered she was married with two kids. The crazy thing is, I felt like she was happy to see me and felt the same way. Am I crazy? A: I believe I understand that there was a connection between the two of you; however, you are wondering if the spark you felt when you reconnected was true or something you deeply desired, yes? For my full response, watch the video and read the whole article on The Good Men Project, right  HERE . As their newest columnist, you can continue to find amazing articles likes this and more so continue to check out my column Awaken Your Badass Nobility. You can many of my Q&A videos on YouTube, so please be sure to subscribe to  my channel ! Also, If you have a burning question about love, dating or life in general for me, comment below, or ask me on Twitter  @AllanaPratt  and just use #AllanaQandA. The post Secretly Married with Kids appeared first on Allana Pratt . via Allana Pratt http:

On Sunday my cousin, my aunt and I walked into the ocean to hand my grandmother’s ashes to the waves. (I’m on the right, the one who opted not to pack a bathing suit.) Grandma was the matriarch of the family. Now the three of us share that role together. For many decades Grandma (who was a pioneer in American Modern Dance in her youth), was teaching geriatric water aerobics at the Hollywood YMCA. Of that class, Grandma would tell me that Americans are “too uptight” and need to use their pelvises more. About two years ago a new manager at the Y suggested she refrain from saying “Fuck.” My grandmother responded “Fuck that” and quit. Her departure caused a near riot at the Y. They begged her to come back. Grandma declined. Her reasons were: 1) She was neither Young, Male, Christian, or an Association. 2) She liked sleeping in. That’s how bad ass she was. Here’s a photo of grandma on her 93rd birthday, October 2016. We had watched Hillary Clinton’s 3rd debate against the sexual p

Last weekend I visited my dad in Ohio. He was moved recently from his home of the last 40 years in Los Angeles to a live-in Alzheimer’s facility clear across the country. So far away. And a week earlier my grandmother died. This month has been a real exploration of the depths of feeling love can bring up. Lots of tears. Lots of gratitude. Really difficult, but worth it. I’m treasuring every moment, and my heart is breaking into a million little pieces. Honestly I am so exhausted I can barely write this, and all the while life goes on. I found myself in the strange position of promoting my newest coaching program in between visits to comfort my grandfather and aunt, and flying to Ohio to spend days reminiscing with my father over old photographs. (Photographs are like MAGIC to fill in the pieces of his life that have gone missing. I love love love going over photographs with Dad.)   Why I’m writing to you now: I was leading my Walk Thru/Goal Setting/Q&A webinar for my new

You can learn more about Claudia in her bio below. Claudia is passionate about helping people improve their relationships (and lives) through better communication. As the author of French Seduction Made Easy and a regular guest blogger on well-known websites worldwide. With almost 20 years of expat experience, Claudia teaches the universal communication principles she has learned from talking, texting, and interacting with people from different cultures and walks of life. Modern communication is here to stay. Let her provide you with the tools to start using it to your advantage. Find out more here:  http://ift.tt/2hQYQ94 The post Intimate Conversations with Claudia Cox appeared first on Allana Pratt . via Allana Pratt http://ift.tt/2yTXPrE

The fear of rejection and failure is the single greatest obstacle to success in adult life. Taken to its extreme, we become totally preoccupied with not making a mistake, with seeking approval for security above all other considerations. The experience of the fear of failure is in the words of “I can’t”, I can’t.” We feel it in the front of the body, starting at the solar plexus and moving up to the rapid beating of the heart, rapid breathing, and a tight throat. Fear of rejection interferes with performance and inhibits expression. We learn this when our parents make their love conditional upon our behavior. If we do what pleases them, they give us love and approval. If we do something they don’t like, they withdraw their love and approval-which we interpret as rejection. As adults, people raised with conditional love become preoccupied with the opinions of others. Many men develop Type A behavior which is characterized by hostility, suspicion and an obsession with performance

Execution. This is the first principle of success in the Book of Proverbs.  The Bible says, Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty! (Proverbs 14:23 NLT). It also says, Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth (Proverbs 10:4 NIV). Here’s proof.  Get a pen and paper.  Take one minute to list down every successful person you know.  In any field—Business, or Ministry, or Sports, or Family.   Successful people you actually know—people you talk to.  And successful people you know from afar—through books or seminars or websites. Do you notice something? What is common among them?  I bet you, every single person in your list is someone who has a bias for action. Success is all about execution. Brilliant Ideas Are a Dime a Dozen Sometimes, people come up to me and tell me—under strict instruction I don’t share what they will reveal to me to anyone—their brilliant business idea. They say, “Brother Bo, I have an idea that will make me a multimillionaire

I have a question for you. Are you drowning in your problems? Or are you walking over them with peace, and victory, and joy in your heart? My dear friend, if you focus on your problems, you are going to drown. You are going to sink and it will all be over. If this happens, you won’t be able to see the goodness of God. I invite you today: Focus on Jesus. How did Peter walk on water? He focused on Jesus. He looked only at Jesus. In spite of the strong winds and big waves, he only heard Jesus, when He said, “Come.” How can you overcome your struggles? Focus on God’s faithfulness in your life. Maybe at this moment you’re filled with financial problems, and you are too focused on those. Maybe somebody died in your life — a loved one. Maybe a very special person passed away. Maybe you prayed for healing but the healing did not happen. And you’re drowning right now in misery and sadness. When Peter lost his focus, he fell into the water and almost drowned. This is what happens when w

If you want to be successful, you need to learn to see a vision and plan accordingly. Proverbs says, Plan carefully and you will have plenty; if you act too quickly, you will never have enough. (Proverbs 21:5 GNT) Successful people plan ahead for the coming winter. Proverbs says, Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live. They have no leader, chief, or ruler, but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter. (Proverbs 6:6-8 GNT) Big Question: How Long-Term is your thinking? The longer-term your thinking is, the more successful you are. When I was serving in the slums, I noticed that people think only for the day. A few think of tomorrow, perhaps next week—but that’s about it. They can’t think anything longer than that. The poorest of the poor think of where to get food for the day. But when I talk to very successful people, they’re always thinking 5 years from now, 10 years from now, even 20 years from now. A Harvard sociologist, Dr. Edward

Yesterday I held my grandmother’s hand and told her I love her while she took her last breaths. My cousin Angela held a phone to her ear playing Bach (her favorite). Grandpa, my aunt Lisa, my cousin, and I held her, stroked her, and told her how much we loved her as her breath slowed and stopped. I feel infinitely blessed to have known her, to have been loved by her, and to have been there for her final moments. My grandmother has been one of the biggest influences in my life. She invented the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, where I was conceived and had some of my best childhood memories… I can thank my grandmother for my own background in ballet. She was a groundbreaking dancer in the history of American Modern Dance and Ballet, teaching Alvin Ailey, performing in the premiere of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” at the Hollywood Bowl, and scandalizing critics with an interracial love ballet. (That’s grandma, probably 15 years old, in the front row, to the right of the guy in the

Persimmagedon: it’s raining fruit! Morgana ties the lessons of nature to the cycles of business and life, with a huge shout out to Harvest Partners of Long Beach for sharing our bounty with the hungry: Persimmageddon Transcript: Hi. This is Morgana. Like I think every one of you human beings out there, I am a mess today because of the Vegas shooting. I wasn’t done crying over Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, and all the other stuff going on, I’m like watching compulsively for the volcano in Bali. I thought “Hey, let’s do a Facebook Live about something completely different.” Since buying this house and getting a garden and getting fruit trees and planting things and weeding, I’ve become way more in touch with seasons and cycles than ever before in my life. What I’ve noticed is there times when things are looking really sickly and slow.Then there are times when things just are bursting and growing crazy. Here is the funny thing, and this is where we get to Persimmageddon. “Persimm