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Change Direction

By Joe Templin · November 11, 2026 · 1 min read

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

— Lao Tze

If you are only keeping five meetings a week at the start of your career, you are on the fast path to nowhere. You will probably end up dreading going to the office, look for an excuse to avoid picking up the phone because you have almost nobody to call, and will dread your accountability meetings with your manager because you are doing just enough to peter out of the business in six months.

If you don’t decide to turn your career around, you’ll end up like the 90% that fail out.

If you are afraid to ask for Introductions, you will always be afraid and so you’ll avoid it and end up with weak and sporadic production that never satisfies you because you are on the wrong path.

Change direction by changing your relationship with asking for Introductions.

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