Episode 60: How Quality over Quantity Impacted my Professional Life

I’ve said before, nothing had a greater impact on my ability to achieve my goals than simplification. My recent episodes have focused on personal life and the benefits of fewer material things to reduce the cost and complexity of my life and how this freed up space for my growth and development. This week I want to look at how this impacted my first business and former profession as a financial planner. Like most businesses, the beginning was very much a somewhat desperate time.  I had no clients, no income and needed to find lots of the former for the latter. The failure rate in that business was extremely high. The company I started with told me that after the first year only 1 of 3 new planners would still be around and by year three, on a third of those who survived the first year would still be in business.  I was 24, married and a father so failure wasn’t an option. I was determined to be in the small group who made it, and I’m grateful that I was. The problem was that each year I had this huge internal and external drive to “grow”. To get more clients.  To make more money. It always felt like there was no end in sight.  It all about growth, more, bigger, better. Plus the complexity, materialism, and expense of my personal life was driving my professional life and thus stress. Read the full blogpost here. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carlopodcast/support