By: Detri L, McGhee, CLU, ChFC
Some of you consider yourself qualified as a truly savvy investor. Others likely feel stressed when someone wants to talk about investing. There is a plethora of investment options and opportunities that can propel us to financial security or force us to bankruptcy. Likely, the majority of us are somewhere in between.
Free advice abounds! And soon, I will offer you a little more. But for now, let’s look at some free advice that turned out badly if followed.
Thomas J. Watson, IBM Chairman in 1943, said: “I think there’s a world market for about five computers.” (OOPS!)
James Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, said in 1975: “I don’t need bodyguards.”
In 1911, France’s Marshal Fouch said: “Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.”
H. G. Wells, in 1902, said: “My imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and foundering at sea.”
Men the world deemed as high successes made massively errant judgments concerning the value of certain opportunities.
There is one very wealthy man whose advice you might be wise to heed. “The most important investment you can make is in yourself,” Warren Buffett is known for saying. That includes choosing the right education, training, and professional development to propel you forward in life and business.
Investments in developing your own personal emotional intelligence can bring a massively successful ROI! Learning how to handle criticism, benefit from advice even from someone you do not particularly like, developing elephant-hide toughness when corrected and dove-gentleness on reactions to problems are just a few of the skills you can sharpen when you have the right tools.
Criticism management skills are available and well worth the effort to acquire and implement. While you wait for the full C-A-T Training to be published, I will share just a few results of applying the system to your everyday personal and professional life.
1. Upon implementation of the system in daily life, you will develop the ability to more objectively assess any and all comments concerning your personal and professional actions.
2. What starts out awkward and tedious can become FUN and PROFITABLE.
3. CM training helps conquer fear of failure AND fear of success.
4. CM enables you to harness this energy to infuse life, amaze your critics, control your destiny, and energize your daily walk.
The FREE advice I promised you earlier is this: Invest in your Emotionally Intelligence. Go to www.criticismmanagement.com. Learn all you can from the site and watch for more information on the full program.
Detri would love to hear from you! How do you develop your EI? Especially your thoughts on how to handle criticism, or problems you would like to get feedback on from others. Email: detrimcghee@gmail.com or Facebook: Criticism Management by Detri. Free outline for Criticism Management available at www.criticismmanagement.com
By: Detri McGhee – CLU, ChFC
March 21, 2025
