Being The Best Financial Advisor – Finding The Energy

Last Thursday was a travel day and we could not do much else given that we had a 4am wake up to catch our flight home from Las Vegas and our lost baggage didn’t arrive to our home until 5pm. 🙂 Thank you to Air Canada for delivering it. But we came out a winner with our Las Vegas business results and I played one dollar bill on the slots, won five, cashed in and walked away.

We took Friday, September 12th off given that we had been going … I was just going to say since Saturday, September 6th … now wait a minute … the week of September 1st was a coaching week and a short one at that since Monday, September 1st was Labor Day and a holiday for some … but just a second … ( now you are getting an example of why I believe in journaling and using my blog for personal examples at times. I am just starting to get something here ) … and given my celebration of my goal of completing my end of the book writing by Labor Day was short lived on Thursday, August 30th when my book publishing project manager asked me for six stories to complete the end of each chapter in the workbook part of the book … and I wrote most of the weekend and into Labor Day to deliver 20 pages and 19,000 words in six stories to my editor on Tuesday, September 2nd … we have been going 12 days with writing, coaching and speaking … isn’t that what it is all about? 🙂

This review is inspiring for me and helps me to wake up a little bit more to become aware about where all my time and energy have gone.

Our time over the last 12 days wasn’t all work and we did take time to kayak over the Labor Day weekend, see a few shows in Las Vegas and we cycled on Saturday and Sunday September 13th and 14th.

Not so fast! I forgot to tell you that my editor retuned the edited book to me on Thursday, September 11th and I invested 14 hours over Saturday and Sunday September 13th and 14th and the book has been returned to the editor for what I hope to be the final editing.

The weekend work on the book wasn’t all editing and included work on the closing story, cover, back cover, illustrations, testimonials, book sales pages and marketing strategies.

So off we go. Today, Monday September 15th is a buffer day / planning day where I get the chance to clear my mind and empty my head into a project management system ( which I am in the process of right now – you get it, demonstration by example ) to enable me to refocus to move forward with confidence and conviction.

At this point in time you may be thinking, where he finds the time. As Chris Barrow would say, I don’t, I make the time.

Then again, you might be asking where he finds the energy. Read the book.

Tuesday – Friday are coaching days along with fitting in;

A’s

• Preparation for client calls for the week
• Conversations with new clients and prospects from Pro-Seminars Las Vegas
• E-Mail follow up to Pro-Seminars Las Vegas – Whoops!
• A conversation with Kim Black to learn how to publish Flip Videos that I will be using for Vlogging
• A conversation with Kate McCaffery the Practice Management Editor for Advisor.ca
• Updating my How To Thrive In A Recession Power Point for Pro-Seminars in Edmonton
• Speaking at Pro-Seminars in Edmonton on Wednesday, September 17th
• Meeting a COI in Edmonton on Wednesday, September 17th
• Speaking outlines for The Independent Financial Brokers Summits in Calgary and Toronto

B’s

• Contacting COI’s for testimonials for my book
• Complete How To Thrive In A Recession Booklet
• Working with my editor on the book and new web site copy
• Working with my book publishing project manager

C’s

• Study viral marketing
• Writing the September edition of our E-Newsletter

Research indicates that 82% of the population is affected by fear and the fear of change at least some of the time, so why not create a lot of change and focus on the things that you can change for the better and stop worrying about what you can’t change.