IOS 5, iCloud, iPhone & iPad x 2, iPatience, iPractice, iPerfect, iTried, iTired, iOptimistic

This is the first selfish blog that I have written about myself or Leading Advisor since the end of August while cutting back blogging to once a week at the beginning of the week and making the blogs about the personal development and practice development issues that financial and invest advisors are facing.

I’m writing this selfish blog as my first blog direct from my new iPad 2 using the onscreen keyboard and acknowledging that after a few days of on and off working with the iPad it’s going to take a little bit of iPatience and iPractice to make iPerfect.

In a few minutes I will cut and paste this blog from the iPad Notes into WordPress and I’ve no clue how that will go because I have to set WordPress up on the iPad … I suppose you will see if I am successful if this blog post arrives.

Even with the genius of Steve Jobs, I still have the old TV generation attitude that I want to push a button as soon as it comes out of the box and have it all work.

This is ludicrous given that I’ve never experienced this from my first 1980 Wang PC days that turned out to be non-IBM compatible after thousands of dollars and weeks of programming to create my own CRM system as there was no CRM software in those days.

But not so fast.

This could have been the case if Laura and I had not purchased our iPads right at the same time that Apple had done the IOS 5 upgrade which included the iCloud.

So first steps were to upgrade our iPhones and new iPads to IOS 5 and iCloud and the whole process went well considering there we’re millions of Apple customers doing the very same thing at the same time.

Happy to say that I didn’t have to pay Microsoft a fee for an operating system upgrade through from Windows 95, 98, NT, XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Getting the IOS 5 and the iCloud for free seemed a bit strange.

My experience seemed rather ironic considering there were millions of BlackBerry customers all doing something else this past week.

All in all, the iPad set up went seamlessly and happy to say that I didn’t have to summon our IT team to set the iPad and things like e-mail accounts which is always the case in a PC world. It has always been buy a computer and call our IT team to help to set up the PC, the e-mail, the data sharing and a whole lot more.

( for the record, I’ve just switched to the wireless keyboard that I bought with the iPad as the onscreen keyboard is too sensitive for my impatient clumsy fingers just at the moment )

My plan for using my iPad is a follows:

On a business note I’ll use it as a Business Organizing Tool so that everything related to creativity and planning is in one place to include things like:

• Leading Advisor’s One Page Business Plan
• Projects List
• Budget Cash Flow & Sales Activity Calculator
• Apps like Dragon Dictation, Evernote, Mind Mapping, WritePad etc.

On the Social Media side of things, the iPad fulfills a dream of having a one place tool to easily read, mash up ideas and write articles, blogs, e-newsletters and social media posts from:

• Business magazines
• Financial advisor and investment advisor publications
• Social media groups

My final thought is another reason that I am doing this is for the challenge to embrace change.

“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

The only thing left is to create the iTime, the time blocks to make it all real.

So in closing on the; IOS 5, iCloud, iPhone & iPad x 2, iPatience, iPractice, iPerfect, iTried, iTired, iOptimistic … how did it all go?

I couldn’t get WordPress to accept my login and password from the iPad.

So I tried to e-mail this blog to my main computer and the e-mail would not go through from the iPad.

I sent up a free @me.com e-mail that came with the iCloud that would not send e-mail so I deleted it and then my regular e-mail account worked just fine.

So I’m just about to post this blog to WordPress from my main computer.

I just received an e-mail from Liz Urichuk my Virtual Assistant, to let me know that iPad has a WordPress App so I’ll try the App another time as I am going to leave the iPerfectionism for now as I am iTired and feel good that iTried and remain iOptimistic.