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Used To

Simon Reilly

I Used To

My good friend Chris Barrow wrote a blog post called I Used To. I’m flying back from the Las Vegas 2016 NAIFA Performance + Purpose Conference and Sacramento Association of Health Underwriters via Salt Lake passing the time.

Here’s my I Used To;

  • Be a consumer
  • Be a human doing
  • Be a victim
  • Be addicted to unmet needs
  • Be angry at airlines
  • Be angry at computers
  • Be angry at God
  • Be angry at the government
  • Be angry at myself
  • Be angry at others
  • Be broke
  • Be deeply in debt
  • Be deeply in emotional debt
  • Be disorganized
  • Be distracted
  • Be fat
  • Be inflexible
  • Be lonely
  • Be lost
  • Be manipulated
  • Be more exciting
  • Be more extroverted
  • Be nervous about public speaking
  • Be overstimulated
  • Be short of breath
  • Be too busy
  • Be too motivated 😉
  • Be unable to do a frog pose
  • Be unable to do push-ups
  • Be unable to do shoulder stands
  • Be unable to touch my toes
  • Be unbalanced
  • Be unconscious of the effects of consuming things like sugar
  • Be unhappy
  • Be unknown
  • Believe I was forsaken, unloved and worthless
  • Bill clients
  • Book my travel
  • Blog every day
  • Blog too much
  • Care what people think
  • Carry receivables
  • Coach hollywood actors, librarians, Olympic athletes, photographers, realtors,
  • Create all my PowerPoints
  • Do all my research
  • Do home maintenance
  • Drink alcohol
  • Drink caffeine
  • Drink coke
  • Eat popcorn
  • Eat too fast
  • Edit my articles, blogs and newsletters
  • Expect too little
  • Expect too much
  • Fix my computers
  • Fly once a year
  • Go shopping at Costco, Home Depot and Staples
  • Have a Blackberry
  • Have a less complicated life
  • Have headaches
  • Have high blood pressure
  • Have poor boundaries
  • Hear city drunks coming home at 4am
  • Hear city sirens during the night
  • Herd cats
  • Listen to music with words
  • Listen to the news
  • Live in a city
  • Live in my head
  • Not belong to Advocis, FPA, NAIFA and WIFS
  • Not trust
  • Over eat
  • Over plan
  • Over think
  • Pay my bills
  • Push rope
  • Post blogs and newsletters to the website
  • Schedule clients/prospects and personal appointments
  • Schedule too much
  • Sleep 5 hours
  • Spend too much time creating coaching, speaking and tradeshow content
  • Talk vs listen
  • Think multi-tasking made sense
  • Try to publish videos
  • Tolerate
  • Try to make Evernote and Wunderlist work
  • Try to work without a team of 7
  • Update my website
  • Waste time with unqualified clients
  • Wake up worrying in the middle of the night
  • Watch sports
  • Watch the news
  • Watch TV
  • Wear a 48 Tall / 40 Pants
  • Wear designer clothes
  • Weigh 267 lbs
  • Worry about my email inbox being too full
  • Write all web site content
  • Write client follow up emails
  • Write off bad debt