Your "Genius Work" is what you were created to do.

In today’s podcast, I explore the importance of TODAY. (Read John Maxwell’s Today Matters.) 

Over the last 17 years, I have been fascinated with the idea that often people that appear to be sure-fire, can’t miss, recruits are gone before they even get started. And at the same time, people I’m not sure I would have hired end up being superstars. I hope you find the topic to be fascinating too! I’m convinced that it has nothing to do with intelligence, education, experience, talent, communication skills or looks.  In fact, I don’t think any of the characteristics most people would use to select a new sales candidate really hold much predictive power. On the other hand, after someone gets started in the Voluntary Benefits (VB) arena, the one thing that separates the winners from the also-rans is the way they invest or squander their time. Do they invest their time in a well thought out game plan, or do they let their day run them? My hope is that you will come away from this Podcast understanding the way top producers invest their time and a burning desire to emulate them!

The specific topics I spoke on during this podcast are below:

• Your roles in your personal life
• Your roles in business.
• The idea of work/life balance.
  • The spoke model.
  • The Venn Diagram Model.
  • The fact that Time Management is a fallacy.
    • You can’t manage time!
    • You can manage:
      • Resources
      • People
      • Success
      • Failure
      • Attitudes
      • Thoughts, etc
• The ideal calendar.
• Time and motion studies.
• Time blocking and Todd Duncan’s book Time Traps
• Schedule your prospecting early in the morning and late in the afternoon. We have learned that the majority of appointments are made between 7–10 a.m. and 3–6 p.m. Most small-business owners start their days early and stay late—receptionists/secretaries don’t.
• While these times may be the best times to prospect, in no way does this mean that prospecting cannot be successful outside of these hours.  Some successful agents have had great success prospecting on Monday mornings or even the Friday afternoon before a 3 day weekend.  The bottom line is – do not buy into what some of the other agents may be saying in your office, that you can’t prospect at certain times.  Any time is a good time to prospect, and sometimes the least popular times may be the times that yield the greatest success!

The above schedule provides 30 hours for prospecting.  Since experience tells us that these hours will yield the best results, it makes sense to protect these vital hours.

Consider the following:

Time is, and always will be, your greatest asset.  Once the time has passed you can’t get it back.  Time is the one thing that we do not have any control over.  Therefore, managing your time wisely is one of the most important things an agent can do.  Don’t squander your designated prospecting time on anything other than an ER presentation or an enrollment that will not fit in any other time slot.

I would love to help you design your perfect calendar during a free 30-minute coaching session. Just click on the button below to schedule.

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