Over the past 16 years, we have written more than 100 articles on being stubborn.

Yet most agents, advisors and planners stubbornly refuse to believe it's holding them back from achieving all the success they desire in this great financial services industry.

Instead, all we hear every day is; “I need more sales leads.” “I’m just not in front of enough people.” Ninety-nine out of 100 of the 1.5 million agents, advisors and planners in the United States wants to believe that if they see enough people they will be a roaring success.

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What's really happening


However, let's look at what's really happening.

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