The Financial Advisor's Success Manual

Acknowledgments

I was proud and inspired to have received a wonderful mention from Mitch Anthony. Mitch’s comments made me believe it was my responsibility not to lose what I have learned over a lifetime if it could be of value to others. This was my motivation for this book. A Forbes article that I read stated, “But for all the good intentions, only a tiny fraction of us keep our resolutions; University of Scranton research suggests that just 8 percent of people achieve their New Year’s goals.”¹ In their book Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start, Steve Levinson and Pete Greider say, “According to some estimates, 90 percent of the books purchased in bookstores never get read past the first chapter,” and ...