Financial Planner Speaking – Just Another 23 Hour Day

I’m catching a flight ( I intend  that the plane is going to take off in the fog ) at 9:30am PT from Nanaimo to Edmonton via Vancouver on Monday morning.  I’ll be tele-coaching from Edmonton on Monday and Tuesday morning, speaking at Pro-Seminars in Edmonton Tuesday afternoon and then fly on to Winnipeg where I will be tele-coaching on Wednesday morning and speaking as Pro-Seminars and returning home on Wednesday afternoon.

I wrote this blog entry starting at 2:23pm ET on Friday, January 16^th in the Kingston, ON airport.

I’m awaiting a 4pm flight to Toronto and then on to Vancouver.  We vetoed the Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Nanaimo in favour of a Central Mountain Air flight to Comox as many flights are cancelled due to the fog.

Entered Monday morning, January 19^th – Both the Nanaimo and Comox flights were cancelled due to fog and I wound up taking a BC Ferry at 10:45pm PT … I didn’t get home until 2am PT / 5am ET on Saturday morning … given I woke up at 6am ET in Kingston, that is a 23 hour day.

My financial advisor speaking presentation to the Advocis Chapter Bay Of Quinte must have been a hit as I sold all the books that I had with me save for one.

By the time this is posted it will be Monday morning and I will have had two days off away from the business and at home with Laura and I am really looking forward to this.

As I was waiting for my Thursday, January 15^th flight to Kingston from Toronto, it dawned on me how much progress we have made in the first two full working weeks of 2009.

I recommend that one takes the time to give thanks in writing and I’m using the blog to do just that;

• In advance of 2009, I Finished The Year With An Empty Head and I cleanup up my office, archived files and through away out of date files
• Laura and I completed our 2009 planning process on January 2^nd & 3^rd and you can read about how we did it in A Strong Start For 2009
• I’m using the Empty My Head Process and the Week At A Glance Time Managment systems
• All our clients are off to A Strong Start For 2009 through the best service possible
• All Advocis chapters, life insurance companies and managing general agencies have been contacted about financial advisor speaking presentations
• We are starting the year with significantly more Advocis, life insurance company and managing general agency financial advisor speaking bookings
• We are on the short list for many major financial advisor speaking events
• We are committed to selling out the 12 remaining financial advisor speaking dates that we have left for 2009 by March 31, 2009
• We have 500 Curing The Unmet Needs Disease books in print
• My book has been sent to every financial advisor publications that I could find in Canada, the UK and the US and I want two articles, book reviews or mentions in their what’s new section as a result of our work
• We continue to contribute to Advisor.ca and A Strong Start For 2009 was published on January 2^nd and I’m told we made the January edition of The Insurance Journal
• I have a draft / outline of the new live coaching workshop that I am working on I want to attract four sponsored workshops with 20 attendees each in 2009
• We continue to enhance our web 2.0 marketing that includes web improvements, e-newsletters, blogging and key words.

As a result of stopping to acknowledge what we are accomplishing we confirm what we want to attract and the results that we want to accomplish and I feel certain and confident about 2009.