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Is Offering More Hurting You?

With the onslaught of roboadvisors and cookie-cutter portfolio performance reporting shaking up our industry, the most important, non-duplicable differentiator you can offer is personal, relationship-building time with clients. But with so much to do, how do you make that time?

Say No So You Can Give More

Anyone who’s ever traveled on an airplane has heard it: “Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” The point is, you won’t be able to help anyone else …

Don’t Touch That Dial – Keep The Important Things In Focus

Psychologists say a large part of gaining the focus we desire relies on keeping irrelevant things out of focus. How are you making sure you don’t get distracted and give away valuable time and energy to something that is not vital to your success? That’s a tough challenge for most of us.

4 Steps To Beat The Winter Blahs

So how do you deal with getting stuff done when you just don’t feel like it?

Maximize Your Most Undervalued Success Tool

One of the most powerful activities successful people do can seem rather passive in comparison: they make quiet time to think...

Small Steps Are Bigger Than You Think

After speaking to audiences, I always feel honored when people enthusiastically share their goals and ambitions with me. Often when I ask them what their very first step to reaching that goal is, they quickly breeze over it and instead want to talk about the thrilling end result of their activities. A vivid picture of what you want to achieve is stimulating and motivating. On the other end of the process, the first step is not always so alluring. It can seem tiny, insignificant, and perhaps even boring. But the first step lays the foundation for what you want to build...

Lose Wait Now

No, that's not a typo. Lose wait - as in stop waiting for the New Year to begin taking new action on your objectives. With the end of the year in sight, it can be easy to start thinking, "In the New Year, I'll...." Instead, decide what you need to change most and begin taking small steps now...

More Powerful Than Your To-Do List

We hear a lot about "To-Do" lists - checklists of tasks we'd like to complete. While there are some advantages to keeping such a list of things you want to do in the future, do you have an effective, simple way to measure your activities and the results of your completed work? Keeping a "Done" list can be a powerful tool to spur you to further action...

Connecting the Old-Fashioned Way

Instead of spending time agonizing over how to craft a response to a potentially unhappy or confused client's email, just pick up the phone and talk with them...

The Power of a Picture

Do you have a clear image of success in your mind - one that, regardless of circumstances, will never fade? Or, has the picture of success you imagined for this year in January dimmed or gotten buried in the clutter of your day-to-day busyness?