Success – Jay Izso

We live in a world today that makes it easy to blame others for our success or lack of success.  Most people want to believe that somehow those with great success have been given a break, or they have been born into privilege and that is the reason why they are successful.  However, the facts are that the overwhelming percentage of successful people are self made.  So what do these self-made successful people have that others don’t?  Nothing really, except…they make better decisions.  Learning to make decisions is not something to take for granted, because as Dr. Cie Allman-Scott tells us every decision no matter how small builds on itself.  if we are not careful with the small decisions soon they can loom to create consequences that we never wanted.

Dr. Cie, as she is called, joins us on A New Direction to talk about her book DECIDE YOUR FUTURE.  The book is full of inspiration, practical application, research, heart, encouragement, and empowerment.  Dr. Cie enlightens us to the research as to why we are motivated to make poor decisions and then gives a practical 7 step process to help us make a far better decisive choice.  DECIDE YOUR FUTURE delves in to why we procrastinate, how complaining solves nothing, why laziness kills our success, and taking responsibility for our own emotions, confidence and self-esteem.  DECIDE YOUR FUTURE is a book that will lead you to greater success in your life, your career, and your business…I guess you could say it will definitely give you A NEW DIRECTION.

Thank you to our Sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, if you are a business owner at some point and time you are going to need the services of an experience business expert.  That describes the professionals at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, they have literally helped thousands in the sales and purchase of businesses.  And they do it all with complete confidentiality…that is their trademark.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, helping people world wide with their real estate needs.  No matter where you live they can help you find the right professional in your area that can help you sell your home or find your new home.  Located in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill (Research Triangle Park) area, for 35 years they are know as the “legends of customer service” when it comes to real estate.  You can find out why by going to www.LINDACRAFT.com

T-shirt shout this week goes to EPIC Physcial Therapy.  If you are EPIC then stay EPIC and use the professionals that the college and professional athletes use…EPIC Physical Therapy.

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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!

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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

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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

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What positive lessons did you learn as a child that you still hold on to today?  It seems that so many things that we do as an adult are so directly from things we learned in the first two decades of our life.   So often we walk around this world and do not even realize that the things we do naturally have been burned into our mind and behavior from events, places, and people in our childhood past.  This certainly was true of Jay Izso.

Jay Izso is a speaker, executive coach, podcaster and author who was raised as a farmhand in a small town called Ithaca, Nebraska.  If you think you were raised in a small town, imagine being raised in a town with slightly more than 100 people.  It was for sure a farming community.  Jay’s parents were from New Jersey so when they moved to this little town when Jay was but a baby, they had no idea or even a vision that as Jay grew older he would find his first real career working on a farm.

In this episode of A New Direction Jay talks us about why he wrote The book Lessons from the Farm: Essential Rules for Success and shares with you a few lessons he learned along the way that will encourage and inspire you.  Lessons from the Farm are 20 lessons that Jay learned while growing up a farmhand.  The lessons are perhaps not new, but they shed a light on 20 ways that you can apply these lessons to become more successful in your life, develop leadership in yourself and others, and encourages you that you too can be all that you were created to be, but it is going to start with the fact that sometimes you must do things afraid.

Thanks to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Internationally known for the way they handle the confidentiality of selling your business.  The experts at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors are the truly the “real deal” team when it comes to getting the most value for your business.  Please tell them “thank you” for being a sponsor of A New Direction, and learn more by going to www.Enlign.com

Thank you Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS  for 34 years they have demonstrated why they are the legends of customer service when it comes to real estate.  Regardless of where you live, if you want the best professional to help you sell or buy your home, start with the experts at Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS.  And if you live the greater Raleigh North Carolina, Research Triangle Park area stop by their office and they can help you in person.  Surf on over to www.LindaCraft.com

The t-shirt shout out this week goes to Yardology (yes, the study of your yard).  From large developments to specialized hard scape.  Yardology is ready to make your home or development look amazing.  Head on over to Yardology.

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Let’s be honest with each other. We are all in sales. Seriously, we are all in sales. Even if your career title does not say, “sales” you have to sell. You have to sell your boss that you have value, you have sell your spouse or significant other on…well you. If you have children you may have to sell them on doing their homework. Then there is selling your parents on well what ever decision you want or need them to make. And if you are in sales, well, then, you know all to well the difficulties in getting people to make up their mind, commit to a decision, make a change from where they are today so that they can be in a better place tomorrow. And the end of it all we all want or need someone to “change their mind.

World renown Speaker and Author Rob Jolles discusses the process of “How to Change Minds”. We are not talking about manipulation here. We are talking about influencing others for their good, not for our gain. Rob carefully makes sure throughout his book that we clearly have it within our own mind we are not manipulating we are helpfully guiding.

In this episode of A New Direction “How to Change Minds” will be a book not only you will want to read, but because of the comprehensive nature of the process you will need to read again, and again, and again. Make no mistake about changing minds is not an easy task, and it is beset with some trials, tribulations, and objections, but Rob Jolles walks us through it all to change your mind…after all he wrote the book…”How to Change Minds“

This week’s sponsors of A New Direction, Rob Jolles and his book “How to Change Minds” are:

ENLIGN Business Brokers and Advisors have been the sponsor of A New Direction since day one. And we could not be more grateful. Internationally recognized as the leaders in business brokerage if you are looking or know someone who is looking to sell their business go with the experts that thousands of other business people have used ENLIGN Business Brokers an Advisors. You can learn more by going to www.Enlign.com

When it comes to real estate there is no one who has demonstrated the consistency of excellence as Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS. They embody the concept of “Legendary Customer Service” and have been doing it for 30 years. They truly do “Know Their Business”. They understand everything from how important your decision is to ensuring that you have the latest and best knowledge to make the best informed decision for you and your family. Learn more about the real estate experts and www.lindacraft.com

This weeks t-shirt shout out goes to Note in the Pocket in Raleigh North Carolina their Mission says it ALL:
Our Mission
We provide clothing to impoverished and homeless schoolchildren in Wake County with dignity and love. Note in the Pocket believes that it is unacceptable that children are limited in their educational and social development because they do not have appropriate clothes for school. Learn more. www.noteinthepocket.com

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Success is a funny word. It can mean so many different things depending on who you ask and what day of the week it is. However, if we were to look at success as improvement upon what ever it is you are, whether that be your life, your career, or your business, then there are certain principles that apply regardless of your overall definition of success.

Enter John Foley. He may be a highly sought after speaker and author, but he also flew as one of the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s most elite flying demonstration team. In his world success was defined in multiple ways, making sure you land being the most primary ways of defining success. Through out his career as a Blue Angel John discovered specific principles that lead to not only what makes individuals, teams, and businesses successful, but what makes them elite.

In this episode of A New Direction John Foley and I discuss his book Fearless Success. You will learn of his story from the time he was a child and seeing his first Blue Angel performance to becoming one of the Blue Angels and how that experience has translated into a practical guide to helping people become more elite and successful in their lives, careers, and business.

Fearless Success is a took book that I believe is indispensable for any person regardless of your station in life. And if you will purchase Fearless Success from his website, he has a special offer just for A New Direction Listeners so CLICK HERE!

Thank you to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Internationally recognized as the leaders in business brokerage, when you want to sell your business with complete confidentiality, contact our friends at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Just click on www.ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS find out why they are the legends of customer service when it comes to real estate. Located in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill North Carolina they can help you find the best professional anywhere in the world. Just head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

This weeks t-shirt shout out goes to Tony Fink Real Estate Expert with Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS. A Notre Dame graduate it was the perfect shirt today to wear with a Golden Helmet Blue Angel and the “Golden Domers” motto “Play Like a Champion Today”. Thanks Tony for the t-shirt.

If you would like to see you t-shirt on a New Direction just send an XL t-shirt to:
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Raleigh, NC 27613

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Are you in “Struggleville”? You know that place where you just seem to be stuck. You feel like you just are at a place in your life, career, or business where you know you are not happy, actually you hate Monday know you have to face the same job, the same people, the same problems? You are sick of it, but at the same time you have no where to go.

Or perhaps your marriage stinks, maybe the fire feels like it is dying, the passion is missing, and you desperately need a spark. Maybe you are a CEO and while life is pretty good, and you should have no complaints you feel like there is more to do but you just do not know how to get there.

Meet the “Master Sommelier” (well at least that is how I refer to him) of coaches...John Peitzman. His is a Certified High Performance coach and quite frankly they are few and far between. He joins us on this episode of A New Direction helping you not only get out of “Struggleville”, but also talks us through his book “The Build Framework: A Heart Based System for Personal and Professional Growth” and helps you BUILD a Framework of growth and success for both your personal and professional life.

Yes BUILD is an acronym that John or “JP” has created it stands for
Build Relationships
Understand the Business
Implement Strategy
Lead and Inspire
Deliver Excellence

This episode is powerful and you will be on your way to a life change, a business change, a success change. To learn more about John connect here:

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A New Direction is grateful for our sponsors: Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. When it comes to selling or buying a business no one knows their business and understands your need for complete confidentiality like the professionals and Enlign Business Brokers and Associates. Talk with a Expert at www.Enlign.com

And Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS, no matter where you are in the world, if you need to sell or buy a home they can help you with the right professional to make sure that one of the largest personal investments you make, your home, is in the hands of the most knowledgeable and professional experts. Go to www.LindaCraft.com they Know Their Business.

T-shirt shout out goes to the Stockyard Cafe in Wahoo Nebraska. If you want breakfast the way mom used to do it…Head on over to the Stockyard Cafe…I LOVE THAT PLACE and you will too.

Also, Please remember the folks in Nebraska my home state. The snow, and the flooding has devastated our people, our livestock, and our land. Please consider making a donation to help out at www.SamaritansPurse.org. Thank you listeners I appreciate you!

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