{"id":1386,"date":"2018-05-04T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barthattorneys.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:36:45","slug":"lions-tigers-bears-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barthattorneys.com\/lions-tigers-bears-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wow! I can’t believe all the ground I have covered in the last 45 days traveling to Vistage Executive Summits across the country. It’s been a wild ride! Vistage is a leading business advisory and executive coaching organization.<\/p>\n
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Here at our firm, we have in-house experts who are Vistage members and keynote speakers to Vistage across the country. And we are a major sponsor of the Vistage Executive Summits.<\/strong> We value our relationship with Vistage in a huge way.<\/p>\n
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Traveling around to the Summits made me feel like this group, “follow the yellow brick road.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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I met so many wonderful people. From members, to Chairs to tons of other great sponsors. I also ate only the healthiest of foods which this photo from the San Diego Vistage Summit proves.<\/p>\n
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My travels took me to Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Phoenix, San Diego, Portland and Boise. Colorado<\/strong> and more still to come!<\/p>\n
At every stop I had the chance to talk with the local business leaders and professionals who were attending the event. What fantastic conversations I had. Learned a lot about various businesses and the challenges and successes these people have gone through.<\/p>\n
I got an inside peek at software companies, manufacturers, start-ups, real estate firms<\/strong> and so many others. What I found to be the case for these business owners and professionals is that all of them are thinking all the time about the growth and longevity of their businesses.<\/p>\n
They are all focused on a happy work\/life balance too. The issues they were all talking about ranged from how to pass the business to the next generation to the problems keeping great talent. From how to handle exceptional growth to social branding.<\/p>\n
Asset protection and proper estate planning was very much a hot button topic with all of the owners and business professionals I spoke with. Didn’t surprise me because I think all of us could be a bit more organized with our planning.<\/p>\n
Listening to these dynamic business leaders at the Vistage Summit’s got me thinking about the state of comprehensive planning in our country. What’s fascinating is that the majority of Americans DO NOT have any estate or asset protection planning in place. Hard to believe, but true. Here’s the reason:<\/p>\n
\nPeople don’t really have a “planning quarterback” who is helping them to get organized and updated. Nobody is proactively working with them to make sure their planning pieces are tied together. And when this is the case, it just becomes too hard to get anything done.<\/strong> You are probably in the same boat. You are busy with your job and family and don’t have the time to spend hours and hours to figure things out.<\/p>\n
The problem however, is that when life throws a curve ball and the planning needs to kick in, it doesn’t. This is when people and businesses get hurt. And proper planning can be getting your basic estate plan in place or putting a solid asset protection plan together.<\/p>\n
Our experts always pose this question to people; “Do you know what exactly would happen to you, your business or your family if life threw you a curve ball and your planning needed to kick in?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Doesn’t have to be a negative scenario. And it could be just the evolution of your life or business. I am talking about events such as these:<\/p>\n