Box Of Chocolates

It’s 1:40pm MT on Thursday and I am flying via Air Canada from Calgary to Kingston via Toronto arriving at 8:45pm ET where a car and driver will pick me up for the one hour drive to Trenton and I will arrive in my hotel at about 10pm ET.

I completed a 10am financial advisor speaking presentation ( Thursday ) for Pro-Seminars and received enquiries about coaching and members of the financial advisor speaking audience purchased 10 copies of my book.

Financial advisor public speaking is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.

One gentleman who purchased a book said “please call me, I am the regional vice president of marketing and we bring in public speakers all the time and I would like to bring you in to speak”.

I always ask the financial advisor speaking audience for testimonials by asking the following questions and here are two of the testimonials that I received;

• What did you like best about the presentation?
• What did you receive that you did not expect?

“Your energy and concise delivery of the key messages.  Some easy to do actions for 2009 planning” – Jennifer Magnard, RBC Insurance

“Conviction of the speaker. Reinforcement of how important it is to have all people in your organization do goal setting” – Barbara Kwasnik, Desjardins Financial Security

The last thing that I did before boarding the flight was have a conversation with my beloved Laura. Laura told me that there is a lot fog on Vancouver Island which means that landing in Nanaimo, BC on Friday at 2am ET my time may be hit and miss as I return from Ontario on a 4pm ET flight from Kingston via Toronto and Vancouver.

Solutions;

• Do nothing and hope the plane lands in Nanaimo or it will either turn back to Vancouver or land in Victoria. Landing in Vancouver means staying the night and catching a flight the next morning and landing in Victoria means renting a car and driving two hours north to Nanaimo.
• See if WestJet has a flight from Vancouver to Comox and cancel the Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Nanaimo.
• Take a cab from the Vancouver airport and catch a BC Ferry to Nanaimo

Lots of fun as all this will be going on when it is 2am ET for me … Ah the joys of winter financial advisor public speaking travel!

You may wonder why all the bother? 

The answer is The Rule Of 10,000 Hours that Malcolm Gladwell talks about in his new book Outliers.  Malcolm has concluded that anyone that has become extremely good whether playing hockey or violin has invested 10,000 hours.

This kind of commitment comes from living ones values, vision and plan.

When one commits to their financial advisor speaking vision they receive responses like; “please call me, I am the regional vice president of marketing and we bring in public speakers all the time and I would like to bring you in to speak”.

Have a fantastic weekend of celebrating your 2^nd full working week of 2009 … how are you doing?

Have you completed your vision, business plan and goals for 2009?

I’m settling into this flight to work on;

• This blog – which is a form of journaling for me and it helps me to stay in touch with my clients
• Personalizing tomorrow’s financial advisor public speaking presentation for the Advocis Bay Of Quinte Chapter in Trenton, ON
• My January E-Newsletter which has been 95% written for two weeks
• A marketing plan for my clients
• Marketing copy to improve the response rate to purchase the full book as a result of reading the first free 6 chapters of my book
• Write an article to introduce my new live workshop
• Update my information for The Elite Advisor