{"id":7347,"date":"2025-01-20T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/blog\/calm-down-its-not-what-you-think\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:18:08","slug":"calm-down-its-not-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/blog\/calm-down-its-not-what-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm down, it&#8217;s not what you think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Calm down, it&#8217;s not what you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The financial world in a meltdown&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a movie you&#8217;ve seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know how it ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why are you focusing on the scary bits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the media is whipping you up and pushing your clients out on a ledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if they focused on the facts, they wouldn&#8217;t get eyeballs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facts are:<br>\u2192 This is normal market behavior.<br>\u2192 EVERY financial plan accounts for it.<br>\u2192 Client money \u2260 the market, should be less volatile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now is the time to remind yourself and your clients that their plan accounts for this and they are on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be proactive, email them all right now with your version of a &#8220;Stay calm, carry on message&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the times that separate great advisors from all the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the times that separate successful investors from the &#8220;Buy high, sell low&#8221; panic crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which side of that separation do you want to be on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re an advisor, don&#8217;t wait, communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re an investor, remember this has all happened 1,000s of times before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you ride out volatile markets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calm down, it&#8217;s not what you think. The financial world in a meltdown&#8230; No. This is a movie you&#8217;ve seen before. You know how it ends. So why are you focusing on the scary bits? Because the media is whipping you up and pushing your clients out on a ledge. Because if they focused on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,140],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas","category-media","tag-client-communication"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}