Financial Survivor Or Financial Advisor? Part 3 of 3. - Leading Advisor

Survivor Or Advisor? Part 1 provides comparisons between a financial survivor and a financial advisor as they approach ten key areas of building their business.

Survivor Or Advisor? Part 2 is about the characteristics of financial survivors that are stuck.

Survivor Or Advisor? Part 3 is about the characteristics of financial survivors that are leaders.

Financial Advisors as;

Leaders understand it is rare when it is obvious when to lead
Leaders don’t have things happen to them, they do things
Leaders crate change before change happens to them
Leaders have extraordinary thinking and a cause worth fighting for
Leaders commit to a vision
Leaders create a future that does not exist
Leaders have faith that leads to hope and positive beliefs; sun, gravity, air
Leaders have faith that they don’t have to outrun the Bear, just better strategies
Leaders have faith that they can do it
Leaders have faith that it is worth doing
Leaders have faith that failure will not destroy them
Leaders create rules to sustain their faith
Leaders don’t allow the practice of the rules to destroy their faith
Leaders create rules that will not destroy their faith
Leaders change the system to reinforce their faith
Leaders grow versus falling in love with the system
Leaders demonstrate by what they do versus getting stuck with a system
Leaders understand that imagination is more important than knowledge
Leaders understand that the barriers to leadership have fallen
Leaders understand that one person with a persistent vision can make change
Leaders making things happen and it makes them feel productive and happy
Leaders are curious about change
Leaders have an obligation to change the rules
Leaders change the status quo
Leaders change the spec because they have no idea what it is until it is reinvented
Leaders make problems go away
Leaders don’t care about how and structure
Leaders don’t care about the norm
Leaders don’t care about the official blessing
Leaders don’t seek approval, they ask for forgiveness
Leaders take responsibility and change the rules
Leaders expect resistance
Leaders create something that critics will criticize
Leaders have a willingness to be not great along the journey
Leaders turn things into what they could be
Leaders go out and do it
Leaders know what they can’t compromise on
Leaders involve others
Leaders connect others
Leaders communicate their vision
Leaders use passion to lead
Leaders seek to give more than they get
Leaders understand that charisma is created by giving
Leaders use charisma
Leaders ask what I can do for my clients versus what can my clients do for me
Leaders listen and understand that clients are more focused on being
Leaders take action – no should lists
Leaders make themselves exclusive to their best clients
Leaders are generous
Leaders inform their clients that they build their business on referrals
Leaders research what interests their clients
Leaders have nothing in common except the decision to lead
Leaders are lucky enough to have a job where they get to make change
Leaders understand that the only one that says no is you
Leaders don’t wait, waiting doesn’t pay, saying yes does