Focus on Whole person

Apr 2020

Facing emotional volatility: How to care for yourself and your clients

MDRT 5.0

Your ability to provide clients with your best objective advice in stressful times may be impacted by what's called compassion fatigue, which happens when you care about clients and overidentify with their anxieties. This is hard to avoid when you're a financial advisor who loves helping people. In this video, two financial therapists discuss what you can do about compassion fatigue and how self-care is not selfish.

Jan 2019

Boost your energy and brain power

Matt Pais 0.0

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It's easy to get healthy by following this expert's guide to eating.

Jun 2017

Building a culture of health and well-being

Mark S. Gaunya, GBA 5.0

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How can company culture help your brand? Mark S. Gaunya discusses strategies to embrace the Whole Person concept and transform your organization to advocate for the physical, financial, workplace, community and mind and spirit well-being of your employees and family. Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting.

May 2020

Diary of an MDRT member: 5 things to do daily while at home

Lim Ren En, RF 0.0

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While we can’t go to the office to work, we can use our time at home well as our imagination and abilities allow. Read how an MDRT member is productive daily with these positive activities.

Sep 2016

When you run out of time

Adelia C. Chung, CLU, ChFC, and Stephen Kagawa, FSS, LUTCF 5.0

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When Past MDRT President Adelia Chung’s 3-year-old daughter died, it shifted how she viewed everything, including her work-life balance. She talks with Top of the Table qualifier Stephen Kagawa about the importance of time spent with loved ones and how you can work less and still thrive professionally.

Jun 2018

The power of pause

Romie Mushtaq, M.D. 0.0

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When people are too busy and too stressed, they struggle to take the time to recognize happiness, only moving from one challenge to the next. By being willing to press pause, Mushtaq says, we allow room for an open mind and heart. In this session, the neurologist addresses how to make your brain feel calm and free ourselves from the revolving door of over-scheduled lives. <a href="https://rz.mdrt.org/search/?q=2018ampro"><center><hr>Click here to find more from the 2018 Annual Meeting<hr>

Apr 2020

Stick to your goals to thrive in uncertain times

Tony Gordon 0.0

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Now is the time for MDRT members to activate their greatest attributes, self-discipline. We need it to succeed, says Tony Gordon.

Jun 2018

Increasing your brain’s performance for greater personal and professional success

Jerry Teplitz, Ph.D., J.D. 0.0

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Have you noticed how a stressful day leaves you feeling tired and drained while a positive day leaves you energized? What if you could capture that positive and productive outcome every day? Teplitz illustrates how to do just that by ridding yourself of the impact of negative thoughts and implementing a method for personal brain re-engineering, which enables you to adapt quickly and successfully to a changing environment. In this highly interactive program, Teplitz will strengthen the skills you already have and give you the mental agility to experience immediate changes in how you function at home and at work with surprising ease and confidence. <a href="https://rz.mdrt.org/search/?q=2018ampro"><center><hr>Click here to find more from the 2018 Annual Meeting<hr>

May 2020

Discovering a balanced approach to staying at home

Miliana, CFP 0.0

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Rather than seeing this virus outbreak as a great disaster, why don’t we try to see it as a great corrector that gives us the opportunity to re-evaluate our lives?

Jul 2018

5 ideas to get inspired and motivated

Liz DeCarlo 0.0

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Stepping outside your comfort zone and building trust with clients.

Mar 2020

How to be productive and creative when business pauses

Howard E. Sharfman 5.0

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You can build relationships and your skills when you're not able to meet with clients.

Jun 2018

Is your Whole Person plan in place?

Corry Collins, CLU, CH.F.C. 0.0

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Collins shares a story that provided him a newfound understanding of the importance of listening and a reminder about maintaining perspective in life. He then emphasizes the Whole Person concept that MDRT endorses to help keep members engaged and balanced. <a href="https://rz.mdrt.org/search/?q=2018ampro"><center><hr>Click here to find more from the 2018 Annual Meeting<hr>

Jun 2018

Mindful leadership: Navigating chaos to calm

Romie Mushtaq, M.D. 0.0

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Mindfulness-based practices such as meditation are now becoming a standard tool for achieving peak brain performance within corporations, professional sports teams and top universities. Mushtaq, a neurologist and meditation teacher, will explain the neuroscience and medical evidence behind meditation. Learn a mindfulness-based practice that you can start at home and in the office. <a href="https://rz.mdrt.org/search/?q=2018ampro"><center><hr>Click here to find more from the 2018 Annual Meeting<hr>