Building A Better, More Enjoyable Business

Dear Mr. Connelly.. I wonder how many advisors will actually take your words to heart. After 40 plus good and interesting years in this business, I am enjoying myself more today than ever before. Luckily, some of your thoughts were ideas I lived by early..working with clients I liked, never promising perfection, candidly admitting mistakes. I would add one more..think of yourself as a champion pool player [and no, I have never shot a game of pool.] But my last husband was a brilliant mathematician and played pool for the Air Force. When I asked him what he meant by "championship pool" he said.."Champion players never just shoot the ball they are shooting..they know its going in. They shoot for placement on the next ball out..and the great ones go three, four balls out." It hit me that was the precise joy and pain of what we do..we never get to relax and say we did a great job..the portfolios are all up..nope, we have to shoot the next balls out. I suspect that's why some of us like this business so much. Happy sunshine, sir! Yours, Susan S