A New Direction

So you are a leader.  Maybe you are a team leader, or perhaps an owner, a manager, or maybe you are an entrepreneur and you are your own boss.  The fact is you are doing the best you can to lead.  You are challenged by the everyday busyness.  It seems like you are putting one fire out, and another ember starts and boom!  Another fire needs to be put out.  You have caught your self feeling busier and busier, you are feeling overwhelmed, the emails keep piling up, you cant catch up.  You are so caught up dealing with the day to day, minute by minute hassles that you know you are losing sight of the big picture.  Sound familiar?  So what do you do?  Well if you are like most people you probably cut out something you really need like sleep.  There is another answer.  And it flies in the face of conventional thinking.  It is counter intuitive.  You can even say paradoxical.  The answer:  Slow down to Speed Up.

Dr. Liz Bywater joins us on this episode of A New Direction with her book, Slow Down to Speed Up: Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World.  It may not make sense when you first hear it, but then as Dr Liz Bywater starts explaining why it works it comes to make sense that in reality slowing down will actually allow you to be more effective, more efficient, and more successful as a leader.  Slow Down to Speed Up is like having a complete tool box that has practical applications and exercises you can do look at why you do what you do, learn about the real you to be most effective, and give you the tools and techniques so that you can truly be the leader you always knew you could be.  Slow Down to Speed Up is a great book, short read, and a game changer for anyone who wants to grow in leadership and be more successful.

Please say thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors:  We are so grateful to them for their support of A New Direction.  They are internationally recognized as the leading experts when it comes to selling businesses.  If you are a business owner at some point you are going to want to sell your business, and you are going to want the highest market value and you will want it done with complete confidentiality…and that completely describes Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, for 35 years they have the world wide reputation of having legendary customer service in the real estate space.  They have helped people all over the world either find the right real estate professional to help sell their home, or find their next home.  And if you live in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area you can stop by and learn first hand about why people choose Linda Craft & Team as their real estate expert.  Head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Also make sure you check us out on The Oak 93.5 where you can listen to A New Direction Thursdays 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT.  Just click on over to www.OAK935.org and LISTEN HERE!

Did you know it is more common then ever to become a millionaire?  Yep…if you are in the middle class you too can become a millionaire.  But it is not going to happen over night, and it is not going to happen without some work.  Becoming the middle class millionaire is going to require some steps.  Saving money, spending below your means, investing money wisely, and time.  The fact is as humans we struggle with all of these to some level.  In a society that wants to feel good now, saving money is not on our radar.  And because, as humans, we can be concerned about what other people think, we buy the most luxurious things we can to make us look like we are successful.  And when it comes to investing, we do not always listen to professionals like Clark Kendall because we often think we know what is best and we fail.  Then, finally there is time…we do not want to wait.  We want what we want now.  And yet these four ingredients are crucial to our financial success.

Clark Kendall is a Certified Financial Advisor, and founder and CEO of Kendall Capital.  He has written what I believe to be the most practical, realistic, understandable, quick reading guides to financial wealth that I have seen to date entitled “The Middle-Class Millionaire: Surprisingly Simple Strategies to Grow and Enjoy Your Wealth”.  In this episode of A New Direction we cover only a few of the topics that the book covers:  Having the mindset of a saver, understanding good credit versus bad credit, how to make a better vehicle purchase decision, investment risk, should you retire, and giving.  In this interview with Clark Kendall, not only will you become more financially literate, but you too will be on your way to becoming a Middle-Class Millionaire.

Please reach out and thank the sponsors of A New Direction:

Thank you ENLIGN Business Brokers and Advisors, when it comes to selling businesses no one does it better, more expertly, and with complete confidentiality like the internationally recognized business broker experts and Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  When it is time to sell your business start by going to www.ENLIGN.com

And Thank you Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS wherever you are at in the world they can help you find the best expert to sell your home, or help you buy your new or next home.  In the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park area you can find them locally and understand why for 35 years they have “Legendary Customer Service”.  Just click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

This week’s t-shirt shout of the week goes out to the folks at EPIC Physical Therapy.  I use them and they get me better than I was before doing the things I enjoy doing and more.  If you want to be your best…be EPIC…EPIC PT.

When we talk about leadership it seems it is invariably linked with success.  When you start to consider what it takes to truly be a great leader…well…success is right there.  But the opposite is true, the more successful one is…well…the more leadership responsibility that they either take on or is thrown at them.   Because of these two terms are so connected it only makes sense that if we talk about how to one the fact is we are also affecting the other.  When  book comes a long that recognizes their connection, well then it becomes a must read.

What then stops any of us from being the leaders we could be?  If it is true that anyone can lead then why don’t we?  What is the missing link in our personal system that keeps either from becoming leaders or being the best leader.  It is time to LEVEL UP!  Author Royce Gomez joins us on this addition of A New Direction (AND).  She has written an inspirational, fast reading, and personally challenging book entitled “Level Up!  Visioning Your Leadership DNA“.  Filled with not only encouraging and challenging practical tips, but Royce Gomez also shares part of her personal story to explain how she became the CEO, Entrepreneur that she has become.

Not to be a spoiler, but the reality it is all of this starts in the first chapter of the book and carries us through out both Level Up!  and this show…and that is…”Dream” and not just dream…but how big is your dream?  Have you stopped dreaming?  Why?  And if you want get back on track in the success of life and leadership get back to dreaming and DREAM BIG!

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Please say thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and advisors, since the beginning they have sponsored A New Direction and we are grateful for their sponsorship.  If you own a business, at some point you are probably going to sell that business.  Well then you need to contact the professional experts and Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Internationally recognized as getting business sold with the highest market value with complete confidentiality.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

…and Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS, when you are in the market to sell your home or buy a home, or even invest in a property start with the team that has “legendary customer service”.  For 34 years they continue to work improving the customer experience and create “raving fans”.  If you are looking for the authenticity when it comes to real estate look no further…contact Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS by going to www.LindaCraft.com

People will say to the people who do not watch the news, “you are uninformed”.  However, to those of you who are watching the news regularly the facts are “you are misinformed”.  We want to believe that the consumption of news media has no effect on us.  We make claims that regardless we need to know what is going on in the world.  However, the research demonstrates time and time again that the news media is affecting you.  It is not simply telling you what the news is, it is telling you how to feel about the news they are reporting.

Jodie Jackson from London England has written a phenomenal book exposing the realities of how the bias of the news media is negatively affecting you and offers a solution to balance how the news is being presented.  The book is entitled “You Are What You Read“.  Jodie exposes the media bias when it comes to negativity…as they say in the industry “if it bleeds, it leads”.  She digs into the psychological and emotional aspects that you do not even realize is happening to by consuming it.  This media negativity breeds, hopelessness, helplessness, raises anxiety, creates contempt, stirs hatred toward others, creates a belief that the world is a worse place and yet it really is not.  “You Are What You Read” even exposes the bias the editors of the news outlets when it comes to choosing stories, what pictures are used, what words are spoken all to do one thing influence what you think and believe.  Still in denial.  Well Jodie Jackson has done the research and the facts are staggering.

In this episode of A New Direction, Jodie on do discuss a great deal of the negative effects the news media has no people, but then Jodie proposes a solution.  A solution that has been met with sometimes ire and anger from the new media.  She suggests “Solutions-Focused News”.  It is not the type of news that a fireman saves a puppy.  No this investigative journalism that faces the problems head on and further investigates the people who are solving, and following up with how well the solution in reality solves the problem.  Of course even this thought process is met with “it will never work” or a verbal lashing by a media professor.  Yet through it all Jodie perseveres with her message of not replacing the current media but coming up with a balance that will give people hope, optimism, and increase their self-efficacy.  And as we all know we can all use more of all three to change he world.  So now you know why “You are What Your Read“.

Please say thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, Internationally known and recognized as the leaders of selling businesses.  When it comes to getting your business the highest market value with complete confidentiality, no one does better than the experts at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, when it comes to real estate they are known for their “Legendary Customer Service” for 34 years they have been helping people sell their home, or buy their home, or finding the right real estate professional in your area.  No matter where you live if you are trying to find the best, start with the legends, start with Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, go to:  www.LindaCraft.com

The t-shirt SHOUT OUT goes to EPIC Physical Therapy in Raleigh, North Carolina.  When it comes to getting you to perform at your best, be EPIC!  They have the absolute best therapists that can help you not only recover from an injury, but most cases get you back better than you were before.  I cannot recommend them enough.  Be EPIC and check out EPIC!

We can look in our business, our relationships, our careers, our lives in general and say, “things need to change”.   None of us want that change to be for the worse, so we try to take control.  We decide quite often that if we have the power to change things we will.  So we start handing out orders, making edicts, creating systems, sometimes creating systems for the systems, get angry, get bossy, start pressing harder, and yet in the end not much really changes.  Oh things may change a little, but not enough to make a difference.  The fact is you are still stuck.  All the control that you took back didn’t add any positive or significant value.  Instead, you became more isolated, more frustrated, and the people around you don’t want to be around you any more much less help you.

Welcome in Brian Dixon.  He is experienced in helping people solve their biggest problems, overcome their greatest challenges, and just gets people “unstuck”.  He discovered a secret to successfully navigating positive change.  Instead of trying to control everything around him, he made a daily decision to start with his people.  Dr, Dixon has written an amazing book that gives us true insights into life, purpose, and profitability by truly serving others, entitled, “Start with Your People”.

In this episode of A New Direction Brian Dixon takes on a journey from how he vulnerably allowed people he knew and or worked with tell the truth about who he was, and that transformed him to understand that he needed to start serving.  From his wife, to his friends, to his employees, to his clients, to the dance instructor studio for his children.  He truly served them all and demonstrated how to “Start with Your People“.  In Start with Your People you will learn practical applied lessons in dealing with topics such as “who your number one client is, how to deal with difficult people, what it takes to create a master mind group, discover your purpose, use your passion to your advantage, have a better relationship with money and more.  This is one of those episodes of AND that will inspire you and empower you.

Please say thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, known through out the world as the leaders in business brokerage they have literally helped thousands of business owners with the selling and buying of their businesses…and they do it with complete confidentiality.  So when you are ready to sell you business call on the experts at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Head on over to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, Realtors…for 34 years they have served and led the real estate profession in the greater Raleigh, Durham, Research Triangle Park Area of North Carolina.  But they can help you find the best expert in your area as well.  So no matter where you are, contact the Legends of Customer Service, contact Linda Craft & Team, Realtors.  www.LindaCraft.com