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Changing Behavior

Simon Reilly

I am a great believer in taking the time to appreciate ones blessings by writing out the things that one is thankful for in their journal.

This has been a bountiful month having had the privilege to travel nearly 27,000 km to speak with hundreds of financial advisors in 6 cities right across Canada receiving loads of great financial advisor speaker testimonials. There’s a load more to say about what we can celebrate.

By far, the biggest success at the advent of this New Year was my behavior change with time management and with what I call OCTDLD; obsessive compulsive to do list disorder.

The time management change came about as a result of refining our vision at the beginning of the year, setting 90 day goals not getting overwhelmed with 1 year goals and scheduling the actions into time blocks.

It’s my view that time management should be relabeled attraction management because when one has a 90 day goal, determines the action and time blocks that action and makes a 101% commitment to focus on nothing but that action within the designated time block, the attraction towards the result magnifies one thousand fold.

Our evidence is the financial advisor speaker dates that we have booked for 2009 with an increase from last year from zero Advocis and MGA financial advisor speaker dates at the beginning of 2008 to six Advocis and MGA financial advisor speaker dates at the beginning of 2009. At the same time, we are on the short list for a least 10 more Advocis and MGA financial advisor speaker dates.

Best of all, I have eliminated; OCTDL; obsessive compulsive to do list disorder by only using a journal – no other to do lists, notes or sticky notes which I through away at least ten years ago.

Everything goes into the journal and the journal is updated weekly in an Excel list to reprioritize the many ideas that I have for inspiration, vision, clients, marketing, and articles and so on. Read more in Finishing My Year With An Empty Head.

Not using one source for all my writing and stopping to reprioritize set me up for the following;

  • Overwhelm
  • Too many files to file
  • Unable to find anything
  • Feeling helpless
  • Feeling incomplete
  • Feeling and believing that I had no time
  • Making myself wrong and beating myself up
  • Despair
  • Taking too much time to get organized

The price;

  • Less time for my family
  • Less time for myself
  • Less time for inspiration because the most important messages could not get through the sea of overwhelm
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