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Gotcha

I'm very good at being inconspicuous with my camera phone. I got some pictures from the last two weeks.
Here's Michael debriefing with Josh about his enrollment.

This is Michael at his first enrollment.

Here's Sol making her first appearance on the blog. She helped Michael with the Spanish-speakers.

Michael has been the hot agent the latter part of June. He's up for his fireball award this week!

Diana starts her third week and her first enrollment!

Josh hit his FAME award with 5-6 weeks so we've been cruising this quarter. I want to say that Ted is on track for FAME. I think Regina is too. Congrats!

GoKarts Again

We had a contest for getting PAA's signed and the winners would race GoKarts! So a few weeks ago, the winners donned the jumpsuits and the ninja-like headcovers to see who is the best driver.

We are not ninjas, rogue agents, or bandits! I'm going to guess on the names but here I go. From left to right: Hortencia, Nathan, Eric, Guillermo, Isa, Jason, Pat, and Brent. Josh showed up later.

It's difficult to take pictures of the racing because the action is fast. Here's one picture that turned out decent.

Here's what part of the track looked like.

The winners: 1st place: GERONIMOOOOOOO! 2nd place: Nate 3rd place: Brent

I will admit that Guillermo is a much better driver than me and the rest of the group. I will go on record to say that I think Eric got an early jump on a yellow flag that turned to green but he got what coming to him later in the race with a spin-out. Honestly, Eric was a good driver too.

Ok, I've got the blogging up to date I think. It's been a long while since I did this.

The Next Generation

The first week of May marked my one year anniversary with Aflac! I am happy to be here.
The first week of June marked my one year anniversary of the week I wrote my first policies. My first policies were direct policies on a guy that walked into our office for coverage. You know that doesn't happen often, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it! One year isn't a long time, so I honestly do not feel like a veteran, but in a way, I am. The next generation is here.

I wanted to brag on three new members of the Abstract Team. Michael used to be the newest member to the team (he is still the youngest though). Now we welcome Diana as our newest agent as well as Tom, our intern! Welcome aboard.

Michael has caught fire this week! He's got his 1st re-enrollment on Thursday, his 1st group enrollment on Friday, and he has got many other writing opportunities that are lining up for the next few weeks. His activity level is high. Great work dude! He has three weeks to hit his fireball. I believe he can do it.

Diana finished her second day with us and she is already going to be on the weekly premium board with 3 policies written today! She might not feel comfortable with the procedures or the scripts or the products, but that is ok. We got some sales for her and I believe she is going to be a primetime player for our region. She has only just begun...

Tom is our intern and I'm really glad that he is with us too. Tom set at least 5 appointments and I honestly think he has a knack for this! Don't let the ponytail fool you, he's the real deal on the phones. I think he makes a great addition to the team. Now Tom, when are you going to go for it and go for your license???

There are two -three more people that have gone through the interview process and now are awaiting the insurance class and the licensing. I believe they will be on board by the end of July! Jason has one person in the same position. Team Abstract and the Giants region continue to grow! Yes!!!!!!!

I'm really sly with my cell phone camera. I'll get pictures of the next generation up here really soon!

Randomness

Accidents happen. No, that's not a pen mark on my face. That's a scab on my cut. So, my brother is cleaning out the refrigerator and find something hidden in the back. He knows it's moldy, smelly, and outright nasty. My younger brother then has a bright idea of sharing his findings with me. He puts the container right up to my face to let me inhale the fumes. I immediately have to turn my head because I just can't stand the smell. Well, as I turn my head away from the container, I have a close encounter with the elliptical machine. Bam! Need I say more? I didn't seek medical treatment for the cut because it's a superficial wound. It takes more than a small cut on my face to go to the hospital for emergency treatment. Since I didn't seek treatment, my accident plan does not kick in. Oh well. I'm fine. The cut on my face definitely makes a good conversation piece though.

This is my phone book ad! Cool huh? I'm going to try it out to see if this is a good way to market my business. It's compliant. I had to go through the proper channels to get it approved and I'm satisfied. I got a corner page which I am very happy about and it is the biggest ad on that page! When I saw it I had a flashback to a 1979 movie. There was a funny scene about a phone book. If you saw the movie and remember the scene, you'll laugh at the quote.

"The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes me somebody! Things are going to start happening now." from the movie The Jerk

This is me and a policyholder! In this group, I gave away a iPod shuffle as an incentive item. I have one and I think it's a great for people on the go and for people who like to listen to music when they work out.

Finally, in other random news, I was reviewing some resumes online and I came across a peculiar one. The guy is a yoga instructor/gardener! I think he was looking for yoga gigs.

Josh's Desk

For your entertainment pleasure... here's the security duck riding the two goats on Josh's desk.

Aflac on Nightline

Here's a link to an article: http://abcnews.go.com/nightline/story?id=3265903&page=1

I stayed up to watch the clip. I thought it was a very positive story and really puts Aflac on the map as a cutting-edge business.

FAME Party @ Ted's

Janice took some real great pictures of our 1st quarter FAME Party! Here they are:

How many Aflac people does it take to take the blade out of a margarita machine?

DSC Forum/Santa Clara

On Thursday night at the DSC Forum, they had a hypnotist come in to entertain. I haven't laughed out loud so much in a long long time. The stuff our fellow DSC's were doing were absolutely hilarious. Everyone in the audience was asked to participate in seeing if any of us were good candidates for hypnosis. The guy did one hypnosis exercise and unfortunately, Guillermo and I didn't pass. Bummer. However, from our office, we had two representatives: Marie and Josh. From our state, we had Amy, Stephanie, and Sally. The picture above is everyone in their trance.

I want to say that this picture was when everyone on stage was thinking there were at a funny movie with friends or they were on a rollercoaster.

This is Marie at the movies. The guy next to her, Quentin, was the star of the night. He danced around like a runway model, he was a three-year old with his baby, and he was James Bond.

Here's another large group shot of people in a trance.

This is a picture when they were told they were cold and had to get cozy with their neighbor to keep warm.

Let me list off several good things about the DSC Forum. It was good to see and meet some of the successful DSC's outside of our State. There are a lot of them. Another thing I enjoyed was to hear some of the SSC's share their expertise. My favorite was Jim's talk on day 2 about accountability. I also appreciated the time away from the office and field because I've been feeling like I needed a time to regroup my thoughts and breathe!

The highlight of the forum was my time spent with Guillermo. What was suppose to be a 1/2 hour chat, went on for at least 1 hour. It was good to brainstorm with him and set up some accountability with him. We've got some great ideas to be the biggest districts in our state.

Guillermo...I hope you can envision what you want on these barren walls. I can.

A Different Office Modus Operandi

It's Monday. Guillermo & Brent's M.O.'s will change.

There's going to be a new office culture. It will be a process. But it will help our region succeed.

Gotcha!

I took a few pictures of Regina in the office without her even knowing I was doing it! Hehe!

New Incentive Items

Here are some new incentive items. This is a cool neon clock. A golf putter.

A cool personalized golf bag.

A flex-fit hat. I like to wear hats and I got one for myself.

Another style of hat.

And another one!

This is just weird!

I found this on YouTube.

A Loooonnngg Day

I had to close my eyes this morning because I was just so tired. They were bloodshot. My day started on Friday morning around 6 am. My day ended at 1:15 am on Saturday. I stayed with Francine to provide support with the noc-shift at one of my group's locations. She wrote 3 policies so it was well worth it.

We had a lull of 2 1/2 hours. We were just hanging out in their dining room vegging. This is Francine checking out that calfa soft program.

Earlier in the day I went to San Leandro to give away one of the TV's! This is Fel. She won the TV! So let me tell you the story because it is a good one.

I got there and they were doing karaoke. One of the employees asked me to sing and I said "no" because I was there on business. It seemed to me that every employee had to go up there and sing a song for the clients. It was pretty cool. I heard songs from Moon River to a Brittany Spears' song which I don't know the title of.

So I meet the associate director there and we are going to do the drawing in front of everyone in the living room area where they are doing karaoke. The executive director gave me a bag to put all of the employee info sheets in so we could mix them up. We then had one client pick the name of the winner. She came up and the first thing she pulled out of the bag was a piece of popcorn! How that popcorn got in there, I haven't got the slightest clue! I told her to pick again because there was no one's name on the piece of popcorn. So she went back into the bag and picked two sheets. I told her to pick one of them and Fel's was the one! Fel was in the room and when the associate director called her name, she ran up and couldn't believe that she won. She had to look at the sheet of paper to see her name to believe it! She said that she was planning to buy her father a TV and how appropriate that she won a TV on Friday! A few people teased her and asked her if she was going to keep the new TV and give her father the old TV! I think she was going to buy him a new TV anyways.

I was going to sneak out but I got caught and then volunteered to do karaoke. I wanted to sing an older song to appeal to my crowd. I sang a do-wop song by Neil Sedaka called "Earth Angel." The key was too high for me but I managed to make it through without totally embarassing myself.

I had a good feeling leaving that location. I felt like we helped them with Aflac, we built great rapport with the employees, and we made the enrollment process fun and nothing like anything they have experienced before.

Here's the team in San Jose before the start of the enrollment. In the front is another TV I am giving away. I'm planning to give away 5 32" LCD HDTV's! As you can see, my big duck is guarding the TV.

Guillermo, Marie, and Jason filling out PDA's and SRA's.

I had to get some action pictures of my team. What is really great when you work with other teammates is that you get to watch and hear how they present and educate. Everyone's style is different. One of the commonalities was that my teammates are animated and use hand gestures. I've got evidence. Here's Guillermo! It looks like he is explaining how to catch a football.

Here's Jason. It looks like he is explaining how big the fish that got away was!

Here's Marie. It looks like she is talking about how Palmolive dish soap keeps her hands soft!

I thought that our time together working as a team was very helpful for me as well as my teammates.

Here's another picture of Marie in action. I like my cell phone camera. People don't know when I am taking a picture of them!

Jason doesn't like my card analogy. Jason...I don't care! hehe So here's another one for ya!

I can say that my week felt like playing with "big slick" in poker. I felt like I had a strong hand this week and that I was going to win. I did win because this week I wrote over $12K but I only personally wrote just 1 policy! All the rest of it were splits that I earned passively from other agent's business. It's a great feeling. I almost feel guilty. Nah. Not that guilty!

New experience this year: I have never bought 5 TV's in one day. I have never bought 5 TV's in my entire life! I could barely fit one of the TV's in the backseat of my car.

Today felt like a 2,7

I tried to make the most out of my day today. I came in late because I wasn't feeling so hot.

But I was productive in the field as well as back in the office. I got organized, thank goodness!

My day was like playing a 2,7. I was trying to ride it out long enough to see a flop. I am hoping for a pocket Aces day tomorrow! :)

Oh yea, I forgot to mention that I thinking I am going to take some golf lessons. I am honestly not really into golf but what I would like to do is to be competitive. And when I'm competitive, I would like to win friendly gentlemen's bets on the golf course! That would be my sole reason for picking up the game.

I prefer a game of poker or some ultimate fighting.