What is your industry defining goal and do you actually know what it is?
Frank LaRosa says most financial advisors never take the time to find out.
Frank opens by sharing what he calls a workation, time away from the office where he can actually think strategically instead of just checking out. Stacey recounts catching him working by the pool at five thirty in the morning on their recent trip and Frank explains why that kind of deliberate thinking space led him to write an entire internal operating playbook after reading eight books in eleven days.
That thinking space is also where Frank landed on what he calls an industry defining goal, or IDG, a version of the big hairy audacious goal made famous in books like Scaling Up and Traction. Frank breaks down why a goal like this has to feel almost impossible to achieve and why his own goal is to be responsible for helping one out of every ten financial advisors who move firms.
Frank gets personal about applying that same framework to his own life, questioning whether the time and money he spends racing is helping or slowing down his path to that goal. Stacey pushes the conversation further into practice management, walking through how financial advisors should audit their client list by tier and why spending more time with fewer high value clients almost always beats spreading yourself thin.
The episode closes with a direct challenge. Stacey lays out why so much of your success comes down to what you can actually control and Frank adds that you cannot place blame on circumstances once you know better. Together they push financial advisors to stop chasing the next move and start figuring out the right move for their business and their life.
Questions answered in this episode include:
What is an industry defining goal and how do financial advisors find theirs?
Why do financial advisors need a place to think outside their normal routine?
How do you know if a personal passion is distracting you from your business goals?
Should financial advisors segment their clients by tier?
How do you know which clients are actually helping you reach your goals?
Why is it important to filter out negative people in your life?
What does it mean to make the right move instead of just the next move?
Key Highlights:
00:00 Introduction: Your Industry Defining Goal
02:13 Finding a Place to Think Strategically
03:34 Building an Internal Operating Playbook
09:02 What Is an Industry Defining Goal
12:48 Is Your Passion a Distraction From Your Goal
25:01 Auditing Your Clients and the People Around You
31:01 Taking Ownership and Making the Right Move
39:13 How to Reach Frank and Stacey
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