Charlie Reading is a chartered financial planner, entrepreneur, speaker, and author who has a passion for amazing retirement planning. He runs the successful Chartered Financial Planning practice, Efficient Portfolio. Based in Rutland and London, his firm specialises in investment and retirement planning, with focus on investment management, wealth protection, and retirement strategies.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Dan Sullivan
Steve Jobs
Richard Branson
When business started difficulties overcame:
“When I fell into the world of financial services, I came into a very hungry sales driven world but it was fully self employed, it was one week sales training, one week technical training, off you go. They didn’t hand you any leads you had to try and phone your mates to book them in for appointments, if they didn’t want to buy anything you had to get referrals out of them to go off and try and do the same to them”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business book by Gino Wickman
Favourite Quote:
“I can do 9 press ups when I think I can’t do anymore”
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be really clear with your goals, write down very specific goals and rewrite them time and again and they have got to be hand written, I am such a big believe that writing down goals regularly and creating accountability is the main reason I have achieved what I have achieved”…[Listen for More]
More About Charlie Reading:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.” Ronald Reagan
Other Quotes From the Chat with Charlie Reading:
- “What makes me tick is being able to help other people”
- “I love helping people, there is nothing more satisfying than to be able to meet someone for the first time and start to, you know a lot of people don’t plan their lives, they don’t have goals, so to really start to think about what those are for the future”
- “No decision is always the wrong decision”
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