What Is Your Reinvention Plan For 2009?

It is 7:21 ET on Sunday, January 4^th and I am appreciating the miracle of flight travelling to Toronto to speak at Pro-Seminars in Toronto on January 6^th and London on January 7^th. I am also appreciating a 10 hour door to door trip to finalize my planning, write this blog, fine tune my speaking presentations and more.

Everything is a miracle; it is just the way you perceive it.

Here is an excerpt from Paul Ghezzi’s most recent e-newsletter about this economy;

• Anticipated $4 to $6 Trillion dollars of global fiscal stimulus from the G20
• Rapidly accelerating monetary stimulus from central banks across the globe
• Expansion of federal government deficits across the globe to fight deflation
• The birth of the “green global infrastructure” movement and the promise of millions of new “green jobs”
• Unprecedented levels of ‘cash’ sitting on the sidelines, waiting to come back into riskier assets 
• The end of deflation in 2009
• All the bad news in the economy is already “baked into the cake” ie the stock market has factored in all the bad news to come.

As Laura and I drove to Comox, BC for me to catch my first flight to Toronto via Calgary, we remarked that this is a milestone because this is the beginning of our fourth year of speaking at Pro-Seminars Conferences.

Hard to believe that I have spoken at 100 financial planner speaking presentations and to close to 10,000 financial planners in the past three years.

This is in alignment with what Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers where he writes that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to get really good and what Seth Godin writes about in The Dip that you have to commit to being the best there is and to what Chris Barrow told me to do; go out and tell 10,000 people.

Laura and I also talked about how far we have come in a few short years.

We took the time over the holidays to appreciate 2008 and it is with great joy that we start 2009 with;

• Written 90 day goals and actions
• Our free, planning, client, speaking and product development time is planned out on a year at a glance calendar. In doing so, we have identified the 13 open speaking time slots that we will market to financial planner associations, companies, conferences, MGAs and publications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Using a hard copy, old style, week at a glance written time management system to plan our time. I don’t know about you but I can’t see my time management big picture on a crackberry or crackpod.  At the same time, hand writing a time management plan causes one to own it as it is said that if you see it you will forget it, if you hear it you will remember it and if you do it you will understand it – as in own it.
• Identified more tasks that we can delegate to our Virtual Assistants
• The intention to improve the organization of our Client Relationship Managment Software
• A brand new web site
• A published book
• A coaching practice that is 93% full
• Scores of secured speaking opportunities
• Published in the January edition of Advisor.ca.
• Published in the January edition of The Insurance Journal
• Increased income, reduced unnecessary overheads, focused on debt reduction and increased savings

All of this sets the stage for our 90 day reinvention goals to;

• Identify 13 speaking opportunities from financial planner associations, companies, conferences, MGAs and publications.
• Identify financial planner associations, companies, conferences, MGAs and publications sponsors for our new live workshops.
• Improve my blog with more references to other financial planner blogs and publications
• Improve my blog with vlogging
• Update our coaching web site pages
• Attract more financial planner publishing opportunities

If this all seams a littler much … why not? We published a new book and web site in 2008 and that was just for starters.

What are you doing to reinvent yourself in 2009?

You are either reinventing or you are ….