A New Direction

Success Blueprint for Life and Business – The Oxcart Technique If I were to ask you if you wanted to be successful? Most all of you would say “yes”. If I were to ask, would like to be more successful than you are right now? Again, most all of you would say, “yes”. The fact is, success looks differently to different people. And we look at success differently if it is p...

Leading Change in Your Business or Organization Change is inevitable. It’s one of the guarantees we have in life. Even in our businesses and organizations, we must deal with change. The fact is no one likes change. We have a built-in mechanism to resist it. On some level, change violates our sense of comfort and freedom. If you are in leadership, what can you do to help make the change in yo...

Owners Prison: 3 Levels to Breaking Free If you are an owner of a company there is one thing that is absolutely true.  You are responsible for everything!  There is always a fire.  And there are no days off. But is that the way it should be?  When entrepreneurs start with an idea, they want to change the world, but as the owner of their own company eventually they make themselves a prisoner to the...

Breaking the Procrastination Habit Let’s be honest there are things that you don’t want to do, that you know you should do, but don’t do. And the reasons are many. You may say, “I don’t procrastinate, I never do that in my job”! Okay, well how’s that eating right thing going for you? How about those workouts you said you would do…someday. Oh how abou...

How Navy SEALs and Entrepreneurs Bend & Break the Rules for Results! Get a job at any business and the first thing you are told is the rules. “This is how we do things here.” As we age we get even more rule oriented. Less dreaming, less risk taking, less creative thinking, and God forbid that you should challenge convention. The fact is we are a rules driven society. The fact is th...

Resilience, You, Your Work, and Your Life More and more people in the workforce including executives are starting to realize the toll that wellness, stress, and severe health issues are taking on their jobs and their families. We all feel it, and we need answers.  And that is where this week’s book Resilience @ Work comes in. Four people sit around a fire at the beach after taking lessons to...

Your Energy Determines Your Success Every single day we bring some sort of energy in to our work place, home, and every conversation. Our energy is rarely if ever neutral. In fact, it typically is either destructive, or constructive. And that energy comes at different levels. But…what if we could harness the constructive energy, and understand that even destructive energy could have a place...

You Need to Find Your Authenticity to Find Purpose The famous sociologist Erving Goffman in his dramaturgical theory suggested that we are all actors on a stage, and we wear masks so people will perceive us the way we want them to perceive us. In today’s world and the party that is social media we see more masks as people present themselves behind screens where we often will not see the trut...

Increase Profitability with the Right Marketing Message We all know marketing is important. But is your marketing positively influencing your profitability? Often times in business we just turn things over to a marketing department and we hope for the best. And often times marketing is filled with jargon that sounds great and impressive, but there is no direct causation to profitability. Instead o...

60% of Sales People Never Meet Their Quota… The Question is “why” and what Can You as a Sales Manager Do about it? Well here it is episode 300! Wow!  I can’t believe we have been doing this show for 6 years.  It has been an awesome time.  And you know what?  I LOVE IT!!! So in this 300th episode we talk sales with our friend Steve Weinberg and his latest book.  Join us! Did...

Get 101 Lessons from an Entrepreneur Who Made It Big! I think all of us dream of working for ourselves at some point or another. We all like the idea of being an entrepreneur. But let’s be honest, being an entrepreneur is not easy. In fact it takes a lot of guts, a lot of resilience, sleeplessness nights, and spending a lot of your time alone. But one of the ways you can get through it is wh...

Build Wealth Through a Franchise There are tons of people out there who want to tell you how to build wealth. Some are successful and others…not so much. But perhaps one idea of wealth creation has been overlooked by you and others. And that is owning a franchise. Look creating your own business can be difficult, but you can still own your own business by investing in a franchise. Perhaps on...

14 Mindsets and Behaviors to Live Your Most Successful Life We all have different definitions of what a successful life looks like. But there are specific ways of thinking and acting that lead to a more successful life. So why do people not make these changes if that means a more successful life is in store? It really comes down to one thing…a resistance to change. Sadly we have all develope...

Learn to Create a Marketing Message that Really Resonates with Your Target Audience There are so many marketing messages coming at us from different directions. Everyone is after our attention. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, finding the right marketing message can be a tremendous challenge. What is more if you are that small business, trying to compete with the “Kings of...

Is It Time for Your Business Health Checkup? Can we be honest for a moment? Does any of us really know what is going on in this world when it comes to business? It’s crazy isn’t it?  And it not only affects our personal health, but our business health as well. Whether you are a huge corporation or small family-owned business figuring out strategies of growth, can be a challenge to your...

Live a more Thriving and Successful Life! It doesn’t matter how old you are, we all want to live a life that is thriving and successful. Who doesn’t want to be live a healthier, happier, more prosperous life? We all do.  Who doesn’t want to be more successful? How do we get there? What must you and I change to take our lives to the successful life? In this episode of A New Direct...

The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings That Build Productivity and Success How many times have you heard, “we have too many meetings”? How much thought have you given to that statement? Let me ask you this if the meetings were both personally and professionally meaningful to you, and they were productive would you say the same thing? Probably not. Then there is the 1:1 meeting. Sadly, whe...

There’s a New ROI in Town and It’s Called Return on Individuals There is a saying in business that goes “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”. I would also add, “You can’t manage what you cannot define”. Are people valuable? Are not your employees people? And yet the fact is we manage people, but what is their measurement? What number do yo...

Want to be an Entrepreneur…It’s about your mindset So many of us dream of being a successful entrepreneur. There is such an allure of owning your own business, being in control of your destiny, and knowing it is yours has quite the appeal. And while most all of us have had dreams of being an entrepreneur, most of us will not do it. Why?  Because to be a successful entrepreneur requires...

Is It Time to Change Your Career or Change You? Are you one of those people who when Sunday evening comes around you are already dreading Monday morning? Do you feel like you are stuck? Like you need the job because you need the money, but you really don’t want to be doing what you are doing? Have you thought about trying to go on your own, but the fear of failure is keeping you from trying?...

Having a Creator Mindset that Will Change Your Business and Your Life It seems you can look at nearly any online magazine or traditional magazine or news paper and somewhere you are going to see the words AI…Artificial Intelligence. Sadly the world of AI and our own laziness is robbing us one of the most fundamental and superior abilities we have over the AI/Computer world…our creativi...

Business Kung Fu – 5 Elements that Will Change Your Business When you think about business and entrepreneurial success and what it takes to get there, the principles of the fighting style Kung Fu probably do not come to mind. But if you think about it a bit more deeply when you consider it what it takes to become proficient in a fighting style like Kung Fu, your business often will have a si...

How Will You Become Invaluable? What is your worth? Do you know your true value? How are you measuring it? Is it money? A title? Stuff? Does it go deeper? Are you invaluable? And what is your purpose? Do you know what it is? How about your values? Can you list them off? Would those that know you agree?  Again, finding your purpose and knowing your core values, contributes to becoming invaluable ....

Moving Past Your Past So You Can Move Forward in Your Leadership Most of us have a tendency to ignore our past. We try to make light of it as if it has no effect on us. Here is an undeniable truth, your past is affecting your leadership. You cannot escape that fact that how you lead is a result of the way you were raised. And while for many of you there may have been much good, because our brains...

The Alchemy of Successful Sales When it comes to being successful in sales it takes a little knowledge from many disciplines. It is a little science. It is also a bit of art. Then let’s not forget the disciplines of psychology and philosophy. And for many people they may say there is a little magic too. In fact, one could say that to be successful in sales is little alchemy. What can you do...