Part of the reason the Secret Society of Real Financial Planners (SSofRFP) is so secret is that what we (real planners) do is still a mystery to most people.

A big, dark mystery.

Why?

1. Real planners have been busy actually planning and have never really seen the value in spending time pulling the curtain back to show people what we were doing.
2. Some of us have been hesitant to give away the secret sauce. Worried that if people knew what we were doing they wouldn’t need us. They would just do it themselves.

Both reasons are changing. The SSofRFP is starting to get restless. We are starting to realize that if we don’t tell our story, we will forever be he defined by an industry that doesn’t look or feel anything like us.

We’re also starting to realize what celebrity chefs, and at least one very good software/design firm, realized a while ago:

“…great chefs give away their recipes without fear of competition. The explanations you get about how things work are just concepts and pointers to get the ball rolling. The actual skill, performance, or understanding comes from the long haul of practice toward mastery.”

Time to pull back the curtain!