January 8, 2024 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments
For challenging endeavors in which people seek to achieve a level of performance beyond their current capacity – such as sports, weight loss, or running a business – they have a better chance of getting over the top by working with a coach. Even successful business executives and sports figures recognize the significant gap that separates a plan from action, theory from practice, and activity from results.
For most people, it often takes an external force to push them beyond their comfort level. That’s what a coach does. The top athletes in the world hire a team of coaches because they know they can’t get to the next level without them. In complex and vital endeavors, we could all use a coach to keep us detached from our emotions and accountable to our goals when our discipline fails.
Ask any professional athlete, corporate executive, or entrepreneur why they hire a coach, and they’ll tell you they want to increase their earnings by improving their performance. It’s no different for financial advisors.
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Why Financial Advisors Need a Coach
January 8, 2024 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments
For challenging endeavors in which people seek to achieve a level of performance beyond their current capacity – such as sports, weight loss, or running a business – they have a better chance of getting over the top by working with a coach. Even successful business executives and sports figures recognize the significant gap that separates a plan from action, theory from practice, and activity from results.
For most people, it often takes an external force to push them beyond their comfort level. That’s what a coach does. The top athletes in the world hire a team of coaches because they know they can’t get to the next level without them. In complex and vital endeavors, we could all use a coach to keep us detached from our emotions and accountable to our goals when our discipline fails.
Ask any professional athlete, corporate executive, or entrepreneur why they hire a coach, and they’ll tell you they want to increase their earnings by improving their performance. It’s no different for financial advisors.
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Read This if You Need a Boost in Self-motivation
July 18, 2016 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 0 comments
At some point in your career as a financial advisor you will experience a lack of motivation. When this happens you can either stay unmotivated and fail, or develop a new course of action and succeed. The following post includes some tips to help you do the latter.
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Success as a Financial Advisor Is Easy to Explain, but Difficult to Replicate
November 4, 2013 / by Don Connelly / Best Practices / 4 comments
The good news for every Financial Advisor is that how one becomes a Top Tier Advisor is simple. The bad news is that it is not easy.
To rise to the top one begins by doing things right, by doing the right things and by working hard.
We lose a lot of people in the first twelve months.
The reason they fail is that,
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