When I was working in the field training advisors, I was struck by how often they would arrange a conversation with a prospective client only to end up at a home with a dark porch or with an office no show, or that dreaded last minute cancelation. Branch managers would actually tell new advisors not
By now, you’ve been working on implementing that plan to make 2021 a great year. But inevitably, while you’re trying to accelerate your business growth, there will be times when you’re overcome by any or all of these feelings and emotions: Anxiety Fear of the future Overwhelm Feeling that you’re “not enough” Feeling that you’ve
I want to share 10 random thoughts about your business that may help you as the new year rolls in on us: 1. If you make ‘security’ or ‘certainty’ your goal you’ll be a failure. Security and certain are the lowest forms of happiness. 2. A major reason advisors are not successful is that they
The ideas here and, admittedly, a lot of the language, have been borrowed from my friend, colleague, and sometimes mentor, author Steve Chandler. But they’re completely in line with what I coach advisors on every day: A lot of advisors have “shiny object” syndrome. They’re continuously pulled away from the prosperous business they want to
If you are struggling with something—STOP! Hard work is often necessary if you want to succeed at something. But struggling usually isn’t, and doesn’t generally get you what you want any faster. Stop struggling and try instead to focus on the belief that you can have it. You have to be willing to allow yourself to have it.
Almost 30 years ago, my Thanksgiving dinner was only homebaked bread – not because I loved bread, but because I couldn’t digest anything else. I had lived through a horrific automobile accident, a diagnosis of colon cancer and the news that it had started to spread, two major abdominal surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and
