Passion Is Key to Success
As you spend time with friends and family this holiday season, take notice of how content you are. Do you smile often? Do you frequently break out laughing? Is there excitement in the air when you are with loved ones? Is there a sense of comfort abound? If so, you most likely have passion in your personal life. Passion makes life worth living.
But do you feel that same level of excitement when it comes to your business life? Do you feel radiance as you drive to the office every morning? Do you look forward to that first phone call of the day? Some of you may, but all of you should. It can be truly rewarding (monetarily and more) to have passion in your business life.
For example, take our own W. Harold Petersen, chairman and founder of Petersen International Underwriters. Harold is 87 years old and can be found five days a week writing disability industry news articles and taking phone calls at his desk. He walks into the office with a beaming smile, lighting up the faces of his employees every morning. The key to his measurable success has been the passion he has for his business, for ingenuity, for hard work.
Harold is exemplary because he survived the momentary setbacks and business adjustments and the frequent trials and tribulations that come with starting and running your own agency as well as dealing with the bureaucratic and political nonsense of the corporate market. He has been a real success because ever since he was a young man, he has kept an immense passion for the disability insurance industry.
We hope you hold a similar passion for your career and that it has lead you through a prosperous year. We also look forward to 2016 as quite a few new and exciting projects will be taking shape in the next 12 months at PIU.
Happy holidays from Petersen International Underwriters, and may you and your family have a wonderful New Year.
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