Chris Locurto: Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach, Life Strategy, Blogger

"What is the fastest way to success?"This question started Tom Ziglar's journey to discovering the answer.You can you achieve massive change without massive upset. In Choose to Win: Transform Your Life One Simple Choice at a Time, Tom maps out the simple, daily process to create success and more importantly, your legacy.Learn how to create real change, significance, and legacy starting with 15 minutes a day.Show notes and resources here >> https://chrislocurto.com/creating-a-legacy-with-tom-ziglar/

When team members are creative and take risks, there's increased productivity, innovation, money-making ideas, and team members contributing to growth and bottom line.Learn how to foster creativity on your team to improve their results >> chrislocurto.com/increase-your-teams-productivity-by-fostering-creativity/

In this podcast we are talking about not just making decisions, but making strategic decisions. Decisions that lead to the results you desire. Decisions that create movement and build momentum...Listen in to learn how to make stronger, strategic decisions as a leader.Show notes and further resources here >> https://chrislocurto.com/how-to-be-a-stronger-strategic-decision-maker

What is a Middle Eastern lens? How does it apply to leadership? What can the Bible teach me about being a business owner?Kristi McLelland is taking us to Biblical leadership school on today's episode and answering those questions.Learn how a Middle Eastern perspective can change your leadership, and life >> https://chrislocurto.com/same-bible-middle-eastern-lens-better-leadership/

Money isn’t greedy. Money isn’t elusive. Money isn’t fair or unfair. Money isn’t status. Money isn’t a bad thing!Money is what we make it.Money is a piece of paper or chunk of metal, and it’s our mindset that determines our relationship with it. Wealth and poor are both mindsets!Learn your money mindset, and discover greater wealth: https://chrislocurto.com/2-powerful-money-mindsets-that-predict-our-wealth/ Key Takeaways:*Sign a poor mindset is owning you [3:20]*An origin of our "poor mindset" [4:42]*Why money isn't a slice of a pie...[5:19] *Other telling signs of a poor mindset [9:09]*What your life looks like when you have a wealth mindset [11:16]*How I grew out of a poor mindset [14:26]*What I learned from Paul about a wealth mindset [17:45]

Learn how to resolve conflict and strengthen your relationship in 5 steps!Free download here >> ChrisLoCurto.com/314Key Takeaways:* Step #1 when you're in conflict to avoid damaging pitfalls [6:40]* What will NOT help you in resolving conflict [13:11]* What actions and words refuse to take responsibility in conflict and perpetuate the conflict [13:33]* Step #2 to shift your focus to resolution [17:19]* Step #3 to get both people on the same page [23:28]How to set boundaries when someone is trying to hurt you [20:29] * Step #4 to find growth instead of gridlock [24:52]* Step #5 to finally resolve conflict the healthy way [27:15]

Learn how to lead your team through conflict, struggle, and difficulties…right down into the details of what to say when you’re leading these conversations!Show notes and resources here >> https://chrislocurto.com/how-to-tackle-tough-conversations-with-your-team/Key Takeaways:* What holds back leaders from longterm success with tough conversations [1:42]* Learn the two outcomes of tough conversations for your team [06:05]* The powerful method to get you started with tackling tough conversations [06:57]* How to sideline what will keep you from being successful leading your team member to a solution [09:44]* How to gain perspective from the team member [11:20] * Next steps in guiding tough conversations [15:56]* How to guide your team member to “self-discovery” [18:52]* What to do when a team member is defensive, difficult or defiant in a tough conversation [21:57]

Leading yourself better looks like: * Personal freedom* Contentment* Less stress* Fulfillment* A more productive, unified team* Greater ability to change livesDiscover how to change your life by leading yourself better >> ChrisLoCurto.com/310Key Takeaways:* Discover why it matters to lead yourself? [1:51]* What leading yourself means [2:39]* Learn the benefits of leading yourself better [3:37]* What keeps us from leading ourselves well [10:20]* What to do when your personal leadership issues become strategic issues for the business [16:57]* Action step 1 to lead yourself better this week [17:41]* Action step 2 to lead yourself better this week [18:19]* How to be intentional with leading yourself better [23:18]

Some of you may want to acquire a business or some of you may want to start a franchise and become an entrepreneur. Some of you may want to add a new revenue stream or division to your company...Is your business idea a golden opportunity or a distraction?Here's how to discern if your newest opportunity is a winning strategy, or a harmful distraction: https://chrislocurto.com/5-step-framework-to-evaluate-new-business-opportunities/Key Takeaways:Key #1: the VERY first piece you need to know when evaluating winning business opportunities [6:52]Key #2: how look at every single opportunity as an outside investor [12:22]Key #3: discovering how to supply the energy a new opportunity requires, so your current money makers don’t suffer [15:22]Key #4: the personal steps you can take as a leader to make sure it’s a golden opportunity instead of a distraction [22:37]Key #5: how to uncover if new opportunities align with current strategy [26:02]

Get this week's download on "How To Set Stronger Goals" here >> https://chrislocurto.com/4-mistakes-leaders-make-in-goal-setting/ Key Takeaways:* Understanding what goal setting ISN'T [1:18]* Master the 1st step in setting your goals up for success[5:36]* A key to accomplishing goals: setting up 90 day initiatives [11:21]* How to proactively remove roadblocks to stop goal failure [15:21]* Address the thought process that keeps your goals too small [17:39]* The trap that holds leaders back from setting attainable goals [22: ]* The final goal setting step most leaders neglect [27:13]

Guilt is something that I have struggled with throughout my life. It's a weight that I carried around until I learned how to get free from it.There's no magic mantra. But today, if you struggle with guilt or have ever struggled with guilt, then I want to tell you how I learned to grow from it so you can too.Take the next step to getting free from guilt and what's holding you back >> chrislocurto.com/nextlevellife

“There are far, far better things ahead, than any we leave behind.” CS LewisTo get to those better things, to have freedom, peace, and an incredible future, we have to let go of things. The things we hold onto from the past, poison our future.Get today's download on "4 Steps To Let Go And Find Peace" here >> https://chrislocurto.com/4-ways-to-break-free-from-bad-patterns/

Merry Christmas everyone!This season is about who He is, not about the consumerism, buying gifts, what you get when you wake up that morning...The reason we celebrate, is Jesus.There are some misconceptions about The Christmas Story and the birth of Jesus. One in particular, that after I learned the truth, really changed some feelings that I had around Christmas and some struggle that I've had.This episode, we're looking at the birth of Christ through a Biblical, and Middle Easter lenssMerry Christmas to you and yours!

Fear controls. Fear can keep you from living a great life, and being successful in business and leadership. Listen to today's episode to learn how fear stalls leadership growth (and how to eliminate it).You can hear this lesson, learn it, deep dive on it, and take action at Next-Level Leadership LIVE Event! We’d love to see you there and see the same results (regardless of where you are) in your leadership, or business.Go to http://bit.ly/2roxLPH to get your tickets TO-day. Don’t keep holding YOU back!

Learn how to kill the Leadership Crazy Cycle robbing you of time, money, and sanity. Hear it from Cindy Taylor, a leader and business owner who just got out of the Leadership Crazy Cycle, gained 20+ hours back to her week, increased team productivity, and got her life back. You can hear this lesson, learn it, deep dive on it, and take action at Next-Level Leadership LIVE Event! We’d love to see you there and see the same results (regardless of where you are) in your leadership, or business.Go to https://chrislocurto.com/events to get your tickets TO-day at $200 OFF.

In this episode, you'll go inside Next-Level Leadership LIVE Event…where you’ll hear me answering leaders' and business owners' questions on becoming an excellent leader and day-to-day operations.TODAY(Cyber Monday) you can save up to 30% OFF Next-Level Leadership LIVE Event tickets.Don’t miss it - it's up to 30% off for 1 day only.Go here to get your tail to this event, to get the results you want in your leadership and business >> http://bit.ly/2Acfp8v

Successful leaders and business owners, those who are running successful businesses control time rather than letting time control them.NOTE: If you do not have the time to set your team up for success, you are not leading.Learn the proven strategies you can practice daily to get out of overwhelm now.And get your coupon code for up to 30% off Next-Level Leadership LIVE Event tickets when we launch next week >> chrislocurto.com/cybermonday

Leaders, business owners, moms, dads, millennials...we all do it.We compare ourselves to others. We try and convince ourselves we're worth something by getting others to approve of our choices, clothes, houses, cars, and spouses. We think we're the only ones struggling.How do we stop? How do we learn to rest, and know we're enough and loved? How do we find our worth from Christ?Listen to today's episode to learn how to break free from the striving, and start seeking your worth in God >> https://chrislocurto.com/how-to-know-youre-loved-by-god/Key Action Items:* Discover where you're getting your worth [2:19]* The comparison trap leaders fall into and how to spot it [4:12]* What we're really doing when we try to impress others [6:14]* How to know what God says about you, and your self-worth [7:51]* 2 things that hold us back from understanding our worth in Christ [17:42]

Excellence is something so many business owners and leaders automatically expect from their team, but does the team know what excellence looks like in the first place?Listen to this week's episode for the 2 ways to create excellence in your workplace this week: *What a lack of excellence looks like [0:55]*What excellence in the workplace looks like [4:11]*The first thing you have to ask yourself/the place to start if you want your team to be excellent [6:08]*How to approach training your team on excellence [7:25]*How to create a culture of excellence by teaching excellence [8:23]*Where to put your leadership focus to ensure your team takes on excellence [10:08]*Your weekly action step #1: how to reward excellence so it’s repeated [12:56]*Action step #2: how to stop a lack of excellence in its tracks [15:06]

How To Grow Your Leadership (and bottom line) with Daniel Good…Read the full interview here >> https://chrislocurto.com/how-to-lead-a-culture-of-ultimate-team-ownership/Learn how to take the next step here (mastermind) >> https://chrislocurto.com/mastermind/