Sometimes You Just Get It Wrong!

It was a mere 7 months ago. Mid-December 2024
The days short and grey. The nights early and everlasting.

One pitch-black 5:00 pm, I shuffled down our garden path, from my office. As I plonked myself down, my wife, Wendy, said…

“Whatever you’re doing in that ShedQuarters of yours…
Please STOP!
Every evening lately, you’ve been coming in… miserable!”

Ouch!

Sometimes you keep ploughing…at something that isn’t working.
Yet the harder you push… the more it fails to work!

I was pushing hard at regularly launching our 24-month Soul Millionaire Programme for financial planners.

I was furiously ploughing the Linkedin Marketing furrow.

I was putting in the hours (and some).

At Christmas it all came to a head.
“I CAN’T DO THIS ANYMORE!” I wailed.

So… I didn’t.
I STOPPED all Linkedin activity.
(And cast aside vanity metrics – like ‘Likes’ and ‘Follows’.)

I STOPPED the complex Webinar launches of our Programme for Financial Planning Leaders.

I STOPPED putting in that Extra Hour each day.

In the quiet space that emerged, I recommitted to my emotional & spiritual ‘Roots’. Infusing every decision with a long-term, joy-creating perspective.

“Do I LOVE doing this?”
“Will this BLESS someone’s life?”

Encouraged by my coach… clients… colleagues… wife…

I started by changing my PHYSICAL routines:
More time outside, in Nature (starting first thing after waking).
Stopping work before I’m grindingly tired
Avoiding processed food (especially sugar)
Increased swimming… walking… rowing… weights.

I changed my EMOTIONAL drivers at work:
I returned to CONNECTION and CONTRIBUTION as my priorities
Not trying to impress. Rather, seeking deeper relationships… new and old.
Guided by those ‘drivers’, marketing took on an element of FUN.

I changed my SOCIAL routines:
I joined friends in adventures… like climbing Snowdon.
In January I joined an invitation-only business group called ‘Business is Personal’
(Unparallelled business education… connection & collaboration… emotional & practical support)
I spent more time with Wendy – simply LISTENING.

I changed my INTELLECTUAL routines:
I read more widely: business, spiritual, gardening, science
I studied new things (including diving into AI)

Now, when I blog and post, I’m often saying …

“Let’s look at the real-life, pain-to-joy journey of running a business.
If that resonates with you… d’you want to talk?”

And that has generated open, vulnerable conversations with financial planners I’d never have met otherwise.

Sometimes, CHANGE is the only option.

Because Sometimes… We Leaders Get It SO Wrong!

Our Soul Millionaire ‘Tribe’ loves to gather monthly.
To learn, connect, support and coach each other.

If you want to know what that looks like…
You can “Come and See” right here…