SO…YOU
KNOW YOU WANT TO…
YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO…
MAYBE THE TIME IS NOW…
Hey, you have been working hard in a very tough
profession for a long time now in a very stressful position: that of building
as an entrepreneur in the life, health, retirement planning, and client
advisory business. You
have had to put in long hours while wrestling two completely different
alligators.
The first is the “learn it from the bottom up” approach
that you had to take a blank calendar and fill it with appointments and
activity that would allow you to ask the right questions of the right people,
people of character, and then design and present financial solutions to
generate an income to pay for you and your family to live.
The second was the constant schooling and retraining that
was essential to keeping up in this crazy, ever changing world of tax, legal,
regulatory and insurance product design and everything that goes with it.
Ever feel like a one armed paper hanger? Ever had a stressful day? Week?
Year? Sure; me too.
So now why not take advantage of a little bit of the
upside of this business? One thing about
it: you do set your own schedule. If you
really want a day off, and you’ve earned it, go ahead and take it. The important thing: tell the truth – you have
had to earn it, otherwise you’re just cheating yourself.
OK. So now
what? If you’re Dave T, you grab your
sticks and play a round of golf. As much
fun (?) as golf can be, I have never been able to eat a golf ball, so I prefer
to pursue big salmon and halibut in the Pacific. You have heard or seen reports in magazines,
etc. all about the exotic trips to Alaska and elsewhere, but…isn’t that a
little crazy? Is this like “Deadliest
Catch” where we might not make it back alive?
Not at all. This
July 1st, I am heading up to Bristol Bay, Alaska, flying into
Dillingham. There I will be picked up
and take a scenic 15 minute float plane trip to a Lodge along the Nushagak
River, which holds the distinction of having the largest King Salmon run in the
world. Hundreds of thousands of salmon
return each year. Since we are in calm
waters in the river life is almost comfortable, except for the pandemonium as
you are constantly hooked up to 25 to 35 pound kings all day long…
When you get tired of catching Chinook salmon, then we
can run up the river to fish for bright rainbow trout, grayling, char, and even
northern pike as we get close to the Lake Aleknagik…
Everything is included in your stay: all meals, lodging,
guided fishing, fishing gear (or flies for fly fishing) and bait, cleaning and
vacuum packing/freezing and shipping your catch, everything you need.
So, if you’ve never done this before, and would really
like to try it, and want to know more, contact me by email alanz@groupservicesnorthest.com or
call me 253-606-4280.
Warren Miller, the great Pioneer in Skiing and Skiing
Movies, said that “If you don’t fish for big Kings in Bristol Bay this year,
you’ll only be one year older when you do.”
Recently we have had some dear friends and relatives pass away, and we
are reminded that life is precious and we only have so much time, and we don’t
know the hour when we will be called away.
So if you haven’t seen your kids or grandkids, go see
them. But if you have and have a little
spare time and want to hear more about fishing Alaska, call me!
Their web site is: http://bristolbayadventures.com/bristol-bay-fishing-lodge/
Al Zalewski, CLU, ChFC
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