{"id":9581,"date":"2024-12-10T13:16:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/on-the-way-to-professionalism\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:16:30","slug":"on-the-way-to-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/on-the-way-to-professionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"On the way to professionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Professionals make choices. Including:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t exploit friends and family. Surgeons shouldn&#8217;t do surgery on their kids, and investment advisors shouldn&#8217;t manage their dad&#8217;s retirement fund. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re sure you&#8217;re the best in the world. Swap with the person who&#8217;s second best.<\/p>\n<p>Demand that clients ask hard questions. Don&#8217;t be offended if they shop around or ask you about your training and performance stats. In fact, that&#8217;s precisely what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; Then find out.<\/p>\n<p>Embrace technology that amplifies your judgment while increasing benefits to your constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Call out the bad actors and the forces that push you to do a lesser job for the people you serve.<\/p>\n<p>Eagerly refer people to someone more specialized than you whenever it makes sense for the client. &#8220;I&#8217;m not for you,&#8221; is a symptom of care and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t show up because you feel like it. Show up because you said you would.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professionals make choices. Including: Don&#8217;t exploit friends and family. Surgeons shouldn&#8217;t do surgery on their kids, and investment advisors shouldn&#8217;t manage their dad&#8217;s retirement fund. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}