Motivational Speakers are Fraudsters?

Do you agree with the post title? I think I do partially.

It's Wednesday baby. I slept, slept and slept yesterday. I'm still feeling sleepy. After, somebody will say rest small o. I am tired of this rest. This is not my kind of life. Okay, I wasn't even able to work on the script yesterday. That reminds me, I'm crushing on a character in my script can you imagine. The character's name is Mofe and he is not a demon o, he is not a Yoruba demon, lol. Vivian's electric cooker has been saving lives. I planned not to fill my gas again and that plan is still in place. I've been using her electric cooker. It is not as fast as gas, but It's not bad. Every home should have an electric cooker. It is economical. I don't know why my mum doesn't share this idea with me. We use gas and stove at home. Oh, I forgot, she stopped using the stove in January, lol. Mummy, you need an electric cooker in your life, 😁.

Wait o, who asked me anything now? Some people just like to write what they did not ask them.

Dear blog readers, how are you doing o jare? Don't mind me and my plenty talk. I hope you are going to have a productive day today. Don't be like me o. I'm not even proud of me right now. Today, we are going to talk about Motivational Speakers.

You have met them somewhere. You admire them. Their tongues are coated in beans and potatoes (this is sugar and honey to me). They talk to you. They make you feel useful, they make you feel better. They talk and you can totally relate. You say 'he/she is speaking directly to me'. You are happier, you thank God for the fact that you did not miss this seminar. They ask you to pay #1,000 for the certificate, you do just that. I have no wahala with their hustle o, but once you start talking about sowing seeds, my chest starts to pain me. Thank God for my church o, people that used to sow seeds in their churches every now and then, how do you people use to do it? Hewu! It is not me that will sow a seed into the life of a motivational speaker that is driving an on point jeep while I am trekking to class. Why will you use your olugbu-coated tongue to tell broke students to empty their accounts and sow a seed into your life. When they do that, you will zoom off in your jeep and they will trek to their hostels and houses hungry waiting for the seed to manifest? Call me stingy, but I am not sowing shishi into any rich motivational speaker's life.

So, in May, I anchored my faculty symposium with David. We had one motivational speaker that gave us a mind-blowing seminar. Everything was fine till he started urging people to sow seeds. Telling us that he sowed a seed to a man of God and God blessed him. Hian, Chineke ekwela ihe ojoo. So, because you sowed a seed to a man of God, you are not telling me to empty my account and sow into your own life? Is motivation now the new oil? Let me join o, it's like I can motivate well-well. He said if you have #10,000 come out and sow it, God is going to do a new thing. People came out. He did the same for #5,000, #3,000, #1,000, I didn't come out. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I didn't have money o. That was not one of my bad periods, but he was stylishly begging for money.

Amara told us of a certain Ken ****** that came to their school. After the long motivation seminar, he urged them sow a seed, if they want to make it or so. She said he last card was #800, but she sowed everything. The Ken guy is actually a rich man. She said she was hungry throughout the week. This happened in her secondary school. He had the effrontery to collect money from broke secondary school students.

Now, I want to ask, why do these rich motivational speakers ask people to sow seeds every damn time? I mean you are supposed to motivate not extort stylishly. Personally, I think after ponzi schemes, motivation is the biggest scam of the year. The only exception is when you motivate your own without telling people to sow seeds and the amount you want them to sow or telling me to empty my bank account, I will not. I am an Abia girl, it is not my sense you'd use to drink ijebu garri without milk, sugar and groundnut.

What do you think about the topic at hand? The comment section belongs to you all. Have a fab day ahead.

Comments

Unknown said…
Not all motivational speakers are fraudsters, why would a motivational speaker ask one to sow a seed?
Then that is not a motivational speaker.
A true motivational speaker won't ask for your seeds to sow in his farm yard.
Instead he would ask you to so such seed in your own farm yard.
A true motivational speaker gives u a reason to stand and move on. He makes u see the potential is your seed and compels you to use such seed to advance yourself.
Chinaa said…
Perspective you may say.
Personally, i won't pay someone for his time then have him extort my guests.

That money stays in-house.
Ihezie Ebere said…
I thought I was the only who disagreed with what that speaker at the faculty program did.. I was so mad.. And the worst part is that they make it sound as if something bad will happen to you if you don't sow into their ministries or maybe your problems are because you've refused to sow into their lives.. Anyway, not all of them are bad but majority of them are like that. Congrats Gift.. Officially a graduate huh?
Imagenaija said…
Dear Jojo, not all motivational speakers are fraudsters, but once you tell me to sow a seed, you have lost me. for Christ sake, you are paid to that.

Dear Chinagozi, lol. I don't even know what to say anymore.
Imagenaija said…
Dear Ihezie, I disagreed with him o. I sat tight on my seat. The man was inspiring at first, but he lost me when he started telling people to sow seeds. That's not all o, he was actually telling them how much they should sow. #10,000, etc. I was so pissed, ehn.

Oh, I am officially a graduate o. I'm so excited. I can't even shout.