I had a friend of mine in college who was involved in student politics like I was and he once proclaimed to the school newspaper that he was \u201cthe stick in the wheels of corruption.\u201d 20 years later, I have used that line many times. In law school, I was \u201cthe stick in the wheels of hypocrisy.\u201d You get the gist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In business and life, one of my problems was having to deal with depending on others. Most people didn\u2019t have the enthusiasm that I have may have for something or trying to get work done so I can get paid. When I was working for that law firm and I had this dream of building a national ERISA practice, there was nothing worse than depending on the law firm management to approve my articles and marketing materials in either a timely fashion or in the same structure I submitted as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So many times I will hear from plan providers who lament that their work is held up by depending on other plan providers such as the advisor who has to work with a 3(38) advisor or an advisor who is dependent on a third party administrator to get back with on a proposal. Every retirement plan provider is busy, but if someone is consistently causing you to delay your work, then maybe it\u2019s time to depend on someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Time is money and you can\u2019t afford retirement plan providers that are wasting your time.<\/p>\n
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