Becoming The Best Financial Planner Includes Giving Thanks

The subconscious mind remembers and repeats the last thing that it hears.

The negative ego mind is part of the subconscious mind and the negative ego mind is addicted to being right about what is wrong.

This is why it is so important for financial planners to give thanks at the end of every day to end the day on a high note.

Better still; take a 5 minute break every two hours to write down what you are thankful for in your journal. This includes both your personal lives and the business lives of financial planners.

Giving thanks in your journal is the number action that you can take to become a better financial planner. Giving thanks in your journal should be the first thing on the list of a financial planner training program on how to become a better financial planner.

You will note that I always blog about the positive things that are going on in our personal life and our financial planner coaching business and some could assume that our lives are a bed of roses.

Giving thanks along with prayer and meditation keep me from getting sucked into the negative thoughts of the negative ego mind which would fool me into getting angry and fuel all the negative emotions that could relate to the challenges that we faced on our trip;

• Whoosh, we are hit with 109° heat as soon as we arrived in Las Vegas and this would take its toll
• The air conditioner in our hotel room started to squeal at 10:30pm on the first night
• Two very polite engineers where in our hotel room at 10:45pm with the air conditioner pulled out of the wall and in pieces to change the compressor and belt
• Our days started at 4:45am to enable us to get ready, have breakfast and be at the tradeshow at 6:45am
• We forgot to pack our baseball caps to enable us to walk to Starbucks in the early AM with bad hair … I mean, we really have it rough
• We didn’t pack our workout gear because of the baggage weight restrictions and not working out along with 109° heat and failing to hydrate made me feel like my mind was in quick sand the day of my main stage speaking presentation
• During my main stage speaking presentation, I couldn’t see the my power point slides from the stage because the laptop was too far away from the stage, the projection screens were too far away from the stage, the stage was too small to walk over to the projection screens and the stage was too shallow be able to walk out far enough to see the projection screens. Even though I spent time the day before to orientate myself with the stage, the laptop and the projector screens, it did not dawn on me how all of this was going to work out until I went live.
• How To Thrive In A Recession was a brand new presentation for me and I did not take the necessary time to memorize the presentation because of pouring my extra time into my clients and my book … Are you getting fed up with my whining yet?

I can’t see my power points, at least I have a glow.

• I forgot to pack enough underwear so we had to take a trip to The Miracle Mile
• I made the mistake of packing new shoes to a conference where I would be in the new shoes for 15 hours a day. My little toes are twice their size, the color of rose buds and have blisters on 60% of them
• Air Canada still managed to lose our luggage even after we cleared customs with our luggage in Vancouver two hours in advance of our connecting flight to Nanaimo

I suppose you are tired of listening to me by now but I have to tell you, I am feeling better now because I took the time to clear my mind of all the little negative things that happened during our trip to Las Vegas.

At the same time I am being very honest with you that our business and personal lives are not a bed of roses even though my little toes are the color of red roses.

If it were not for giving thanks along with prayer and meditation it would be very easy to get sucked into the negative thoughts of the negative ego mind that would prevent us from attracting the record breaking results that I wrote about in yesterday’s blog.

Please remember to take the time write a list in your journal of everything that you have to give thanks for in both your business and personal lives because;

• The subconscious mind remembers and repeats the last thing that it hears.

• The negative ego mind is part of the subconscious mind and the negative ego mind is addicted to being right about what is wrong.