{"id":11786,"date":"2024-07-22T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cainwatters.com\/digitalblogs\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2024-07-22T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:32:09","slug":"lessons-earned-over-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cainwatters.com\/digitalblogs\/lessons-earned-over-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Move The Big Rocks First"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lessons Earned Over 40 Years in Business <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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When CWA Founding Partner Darrell Cain<\/span><\/a> started the firm in 1984, he had a goal of helping his clients accumulate wealth. One year later, in the trenches of working with his first 30 clients, he was frustrated.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

He could divide his clients into three groups: those who didn\u2019t follow any of his advice, those who followed some, and those who followed it all. The ones who followed all his advice were doing great. But what made someone follow his advice?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

He realized that the truly successful clients understood and believed in the principles his advice was based on. That epiphany changed how Cain Watters works with its clients. In the first three hours of meeting with a new client, Darrell simply educated people on how money works. With this knowledge, they became empowered to work with him toward the same goal.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The goal of accumulating wealth evolved into an ongoing mission that focuses on education, rather than money, as the catalyst to change.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Darrell reminisced, \u201cIt takes time to slow down and teach, to where you are not solving the problem, but setting the context for how to go about solving the problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

It was this and other lessons that Darrell earned over the last four decades. Like many before him, some lessons he learned the hard way\u2014and these he felt even more compelled to share.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

LESSONS EARNED OVER 40 YEARS <\/strong><\/h5>
1. Move the Big Rocks First\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>

When we have a lot of tasks and to-dos in front of us, we tend to clean up the easy ones first. But the most effective and efficient way to make tangible, stress-relieving progress is to tackle the big rocks first\u2014the ones that are hard to move, time-consuming, and, many times, confrontational. More often than not, when you push a big rock over, it takes other rocks with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0<\/span>The essence of this lesson \u2026 Addressing the complex issues first makes the easy issues easier.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Watch Darrell Cain share this lesson in his own words.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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