What It REALLY Takes To Be GREAT At Something | John Maxwell

you see nothing is great until a life has changed you do understand that so you can have a good conference you can't have a great conference great is only what they do with it after the conference you can have a good book but the book becomes great when it changes the life and so many times we count our victories before we have victories we count our victories because we just look good when we walk across the stage and everybody clap and everybody was happy and we thought oh my gosh what a good conference is this everything escalates and gets better when the people get better and if the people don't get better it wasn't that good as the people don't change if people don't grow and the people if the people just aren't reproducing it never becomes great see leaders understand greatness is begins with them and what they teach and Inspire their people to be and do but the result of greatness is in the proof of the people it's in the people so if you say well I'm I'm a great leader how many great leaders have you reproduced so you're not a great leader because you have followers you're a great leader because you've reproduced leaders and so this is going to be a huge day I promising you're going to fill pages of notes not just a page or two that's I don't know who does that but you're going to feel pages in that church you're going to have to you're going to have to go straight from here to a massage therapist you're gonna say just work the hand work the hand we just just work the head but I've I've been taking a lot of notes because one of the things we do in the John Maxwell company it's a reputation of mine to give you more than you can handle you with me do you ever go to hear somebody speaking you just kind of sit there for a while and kind of hope for a miracle you know I mean just say I know it's it I it will sometimes get better and you know and and if you ever kind of sometimes kind of want to just walk up and say you know what you're not very good let me give you a couple thoughts here just say these it'll help you it'll take you to a new level huh now the reason I say that is is um we work very hard you're hereby invitation I mean we do these things quite a bit we're going to pack this thing up many many times but we just said no just we want the right people in the room when we want the right people in the room because that reproduces itself so I've worked hard uh or I'm going to do the laws of growth I'm I'm curious how many of you have the the book 15 laws of growth raise your hand oh look at that yeah that's good that's really good that's very good you notice I didn't ask how many of you had read it I'm delighted to you about some of the laws of leadership and the first one I want to talk to you about is truly the first one I should talk to you about now there are 15 of them but you have to understand there's one that I think is foundational for the other 14. not more important but foundational and that's the law of intentionality and that's where we're going to begin today the law of intentionality just basically says growth is the only guarantee that tomorrow is going to get better oh isn't that good if you're going to grow and if I'm going to grow we're going to grow intentionally now I'm talking to leaders today I love talking to to people that lead many people and to be honest with you if if I could just literally come off the stage and and and I could get real close to you and we'd have kind of like a one-on-one conversation there are two questions that I would ask you and the two questions I'm about to ask you will really determine how successful you're going to be in this business without any question these are the two questions it's not like there's three or there's four or there's seven there's two okay just trust me on this I'm an old man I know this I've been around the block a few times and there are two questions that if you can answer in a positive way about yourself you're going to be very successful and if you really cannot answer that in a positive way to be honest with you you're not going to be near successful as you would like to be the first question is very simple what are you doing to develop yourself and if you say my gosh John I'll tell you right now I'm doing a lot to develop myself I I mean I've got a personal growth plan and and I'm intentional in this and I'm I'm doing this on a daily deal if you could say that to me then I'd say hey we're in good shape here we're in good shape because that's the key you know what what are you doing to develop yourself and and by the way the reason that's first is not because you want to be selfish it's kind of like almost a selfish question person says well why do I start with myself the reason you start with yourself is because you cannot give what you do not have so you better start with yourself because if you're leading others and have nothing to give them nothing to share with them nothing to teach them then I can promise you you'll never be what you want to be as a leader and I can promise you that after 40 Years of personal growth The Secret of any success if I've had any success at all the secret of that success has been personal growth in my life and growth has has literally placed me where I am so so what are you doing to develop yourself it's a huge question and the 15 laws of of the 15 laws of personal growth basically these laws are all about developing yourself and developing the second question what are you doing to develop others you see on the first question you're foundational for your future the second question is all about compounding multiplication that's where you build a huge business when you know how to develop other people and what we have to understand about the law of intentionality is that you cannot develop yourself and you cannot develop your people unless you're intentional and I discovered that in my 20s when I sat down and had breakfast with a guy named Kirk kempmeyer at the Holiday Inn in Lancaster Ohio and he asked me the question John do you have do you have a plan for personal growth in your life didn't have a plan didn't know I was supposed to have a plan nobody ever told me I was supposed to have a plan I graduated I was working hard doing my very best to reach my potential but nobody ever walked in my life until Kirk campmeyer did and said John do you have a plan for personal growth in your life and I didn't have one I was embarrassed I thought back then I had to have answers and so I acted as if I did and that didn't really work very long I was kind of like a plain circling Airfield trying to come in for a landing found I just shut up and landed that plane and he looked at me and I'll never forget he said you don't have a plan do you and I said no I don't have a plan then he said to me John growth is not automatic if you're going to have to grow you're going to have to grow on purpose that day my life was changed what Kurt was saying is if you're going to grow you have to be intentional I mean it's it starts it starts with me so so look at the person you're seated beside and just say to this this will kind of be like a get acquainted time with him just look at him and say you really need to improve go ahead and tell them that right now you really now wasn't that fun it wasn't that fun in the fun just look at somebody say you know what you really need to improve yeah it's just I mean it's just it just rolls naturally off the tongue now look right back at him and say I need to improve now you said that with a lot less enthusiasm first I mean it was loud you need to improve Yeah well yeah yeah I need to improve I I knew now the problem is we have what I call growth gaps the reason that we're not intentional in our growing is there are just some gaps that that keep us from from getting to where we need to go and I'm going to give you about a half a dozen of them really quickly the first one is is the Assumption Gap and the Assumption Gap just basically says or is I assume that I'll grow automatically you see most people they live by assumption 99 of people today are assuming just assuming that somehow they'll get better very sad folks very sad because let me tell you something about assumption assumption is a huge disappointment in life you showed me a person that assumes and I'll show you a person that almost daily is disappointed so the first Gap is a gap that leaves many people short and that's just the pure assumption Gap the second one is is the knowledge Gap and the knowledge Gap is is basically I don't know how to grow and we've all been there in other words okay I know that I need to be intentional in my growth but I really don't I really don't know how to grow I've been there now I brought something with me today that's very special it's a kit and and I I I'm just so pleased to have this because this kit is very important to me now it cost me 799 dollars and and I got this kit I got this kit back I got this kit back in 19 in the 1970s okay and and this was my first personal growth kit it's uh uh you know the Dynamics of personal growth setting um by Paul Meyer personal success planner and and I was so excited it cost 799 I now you have to understand I made about 800 a month so get the picture it took me six months to buy this kit I I saved up we didn't have credit cards back then and I just I just saved up and and worked hard and it took me six months before I had enough cash to to buy this kit and I was so I was so excited when I got it and uh and I mean I opened it all up and this is just amazing I just it had I mean you'll just see some things here that just crack you up it had for some of you young people we've never seen this before thank you okay they're called cassette tapes and I remember taking the first cassette tape out putting on my little cassette player opening this up oh my gosh this was so wonderful that wasn't they had I mean they had Page by Page plans this and I mean I I do with the plans and listen to the tapes and go through the plans listen to go to the plants listen tape this is my first growth experience and the ROI on this 799 dollar kit it's worth millions of dollars to me yeah you heard me right Millions of dollars and experiences and a lifetime of growth and what's interesting is now here's what I want you to hear the value of this kit the content was good but that wasn't the value the content was good but but as I look back now I say what made this so special what made this so special is very simple this is the kit that got me started hear me out the value of what you do for people is not so much what you give to them as much as it challenges them to get started getting started is absolutely the key to life and by the time I finish going through this personal growth kit by the time that was all finished I I had six months of day in day out personal growth and what it did is it developed a habit in my life and by the time I finished with that kit now I'm used to I'm used to spending time every day in personal growth it it got me started I mean this is this is worth this whole lesson if you can just get this the reason I'm so passionate about personal growth is personal growth keeps me prepared in other words if I'm continually growing I continue to developing myself and I'm continually learning and I'm continually doing new things and and going to another step higher can I tell you what that is that that constant growth is the preparation for the opportunity so when the opportunity comes it's I I here's the way you don't go into an opportunity you grow into an opportunity and so I'm passionate about personal growth because for that person who says wow I I had an opportunity I wasn't ready if you're growing you're always ready because after I intentionally started growing I made a commitment to grow as a leader I started writing I became an author I developed growth resources for other people I found in my first company I began training conferences everything I can think of that has ever been good in my life was a result of the fact that I started personal growth in my life I know I know I'm known for leadership I understand that but my passion in life more than anything else is personal growth because if you grow personally you could be a great leader you've been if you don't grow personally who can't be a good leader everything in life everything in life that you're ever going to want is based upon your ability to develop yourself so Kurt catmeyer said John um you you can't just accidentally grow you got to grow on purpose and so I started and I got to thinking yesterday when I was getting ready to kind of my last preparation for this lesson I I I got started and guess what when I got started let me tell you what I didn't have I didn't have experience I didn't have knowledge I did not have a motto I did not have a mentor I did not have a plan I did not have a fellow traveler I did not have resources I did not have money I did not have a growth environment but I got started you don't stop or not start because of what you don't have you don't start because you don't realize yet that the fruit of everything good in life begins with a challenge there's nothing easy in life worthwhile in life everything is a pill that's worthwhile and there's it's not going to come to you and it's not going to fall in your lap it's always going to be difficult so how do we go from growth doesn't just happen to making growth happen now here's the practic and you just don't want to miss this because I'm going to I'm going to give you some stuff right now this is pure gold okay this is so good I hardly want to give it to you and the reason I highly want to give it to you is because it's so good ah I don't want you to misuse it so look at the person you're sitting beside and just say take notes and don't mess up just tell them that just take notes and don't mess up okay I'm going to give you I'm going to give you an intentional growth plan right now it's just so simple let's go okay here's here's my intentional growth plan number one number one make a commitment to intentionally grow that's that's where it starts you say well John that seems really simple make a commitment to intentionally grow guess what it's really simple but can I tell you something when Kirk kappmeyer looked across that breakfast table and told me that if I was going to grocery on purpose and I looked at him and I said I'm gonna I'm gonna start growing on purpose something happened within me something happened within me that just changed my life it was just a simple commitment nothing that I thought at that time was going to change my life but it was just a simple commitment I I I'm going I'm going to grow I'm going to grow intentionally and I it starts there I want every one of you I want everyone and for yourself for the people that you lead make that commitment to intentionally grow number two make that commitment public a commitment that is not public is worthless because let me tell you something we all have a tendency to stray we all have a tendency to give up we all have a tendency to get off course come on but the moment that we start making it public I can remember I couldn't afford that kit that I showed you and I said can you give me 30 minutes and I lived where we're having our breakfast was close to the house I said I've got to show this I got to take this and show it to Margaret and I said I ran home and I got the case today but I said we can't afford this it's 799 and we can't afford it and so I've got to take it right back but I just want to show you what we're going to save our money for and we got it all out and got those cassettes out and and we looked at the material real quickly and I put it back in the box and I went back there but but then I told my friends I began to tell my friends guess what I I'm I'm I've made a commit to personally grow There's Something Beautiful about a shared commitment a shared commitment becomes a strong commitment number three identify the areas that you want to grow personally in identify them in other words sit down and say okay where am I going to grow specifically now let me I'm going to help you here when you start identifying the areas that you're going to grow in it should be at least two and no more than five 's probably a little heavy but but it has to be at least two you say well how about just focusing on one let me tell you why you want to grow in an area of choice and you want to grow in an area of skill so that's two so when I'm talking about an area of choice I'm talking about maybe your attitude that's a choice isn't it so so I want to grow in an area of choice maybe it's discipline and I want to grow in an area of skill so when for for me I started off with attitude and speaking because I was I was speaking I was a pastor I want to I want to be a better Communicator so I said okay speaking that's a skill I'm going to work on that I'm I'm going to work on I'm going to work on my attitude so identify what what are the two areas at least that you're going to grow in and then number four invest one hour a day in those two areas every day including Sundays every day seven days seven twenty four seven every day be okay and and when you when you when you spend that hour won't even tell you how to spend the hour you spend the hour this way here's the way it works preparation practice reflection preparation practice reflection preparation practice reflection preparation practice reflection you do it every day whether it's your choice or whether it's your skill you prepare a little bit practice a little bit reflect a little bit every day you're going to find this is just huge for your life now while I was doing all of that that preparation practice reflection while I was doing all that on my speaking I was starting to go observe communicators and and and when I would listen to Somebody speak I wouldn't listen too much about what the subject was it really didn't matter I asked asking myself one question the whole time I would listen to him speak and the question was are they connecting with their audience and I would write down if they were not connecting why they were not and if they were connecting why they were in about two years I became a master in understanding how to connect with an audience because studied it and I would listen and I would watch and I would observe and I would come away and say they did three things that were just powerful okay I gotta go practice that okay prepare practice reflect and and I would just work on that and I this is the cycle that I worked okay number five invest one hour a week on reflection and writing on what you're learning to take an hour every week and say okay for the last seven days this is what I've been practicing this is what I've been this is what I've been preparing for it's what I've been reflecting and and and start that now now let me tell you let me tell you the secret on this because I'm kind of now talking about writing I'm talking about maybe journaling a little bit let me tell you something don't don't try to journal a lot start with jotting jot before you Journal see I jot every day I don't journal every day but I jot every day four or five words oh my gosh they're just they're just mental kicks for me okay and then at the end of the week you may have like 12 jots down you with me and you go get those jots and you say okay now I'm gonna spend 35 minutes I'm gonna start writing what what what what what did that mean to me just just jot and then journal and then number seven this is huge no I'm sorry and then number six share your growth with someone every week find somebody that you can share your growth with and let me tell you how this works you sit down I want to tell you what I'm learning I want to tell you how I'm growing now here's how this works this is beautiful when you share your growth with someone if they're happy do it the next week you with me oh they okay well let me share can I share with you now see so if they're happy keep sharing if they're not happy start moving don't ever spend time with people that aren't thrilled with your progress the friends I dropped in my early years the friends I dropped in my early years were those people that weren't thrilled with my progress are you with me they weren't thrilled at all with my progress those are the ones I left behind I got some new friends that's what you've got to do because let me tell you something if you become intentional in your growth you'll outgrow almost everybody you know everything I have today is because I have good people around me everything you want to talk about any area of My Success in my life and what I'll do immediately is I'll give you the names of people the names of people who are gifted better than I am who complete me who compliment me who add value to me who who make a difference for me and and they do it with such consistency they do it with such care they do it with such kindness they do it with such love and they just do it and they do it all the time and and it's humbling to me it's humbling to me I mean this is a perfect example what I walked out to teach you today this is the first time I was here to teach I mean I I did nothing I didn't set up any cameras I I I didn't do anything I I mean I didn't do any email I didn't do anything I didn't do any they just said John could you get ready to teach the 15 laws so I've been over there writing and teaching the 15 working on it upgrading doing everything else but but everything everything that you're enjoying today outside of this teaching everything has been done by others and I can tell you right now when I die they can put on my Tombstone a whole bunch of people made that man because they have and I'm grateful you say you'll never change your life until you change what you do daily yes the secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda I'd love to know what do you do daily that helps you impact lives and build your organization the way you do what are some of your daily disciplines that are most helpful well I love that question and I do believe this I I believe that we uh we overestimate what we can do tomorrow right and I think we over exaggerate what we did yesterday and I think especially when you're old like me you sit there and you know the good old days I don't think the good old days were always that good you know what I mean but I do think and in fact I know we underestimate today and it's the only moment I have all I have is now the only time I have and that's why I tell people consistently you have to live in the present uh be there be present whatever whatever you're doing do it well right now so in in my disciplines to make the day count uh I have I have my um spiritual disciplines of things that I do in my faith walk that I do on it on a daily basis I pray scripture uh I have my um uh writing disciplines I I write always in the morning in fact one of my disciplines is that basically I don't meet with anybody uh until noon because I'm a morning person I get up around 4 30 in the morning and from 4 30 to about 10 30 11. I am cooking I mean that that's when I think best that's when I write best and and I learned a long time ago now you may be a night person so you might flip that but whenever you're at your best mentally physically that's when you ought to be doing your most important things and and making that really count right then but you know who was it I think Joe Frazier the boxing champion said that uh when you get into the ring it shows up if you practice or not and if you worked out and and and and what what we do in secret will be revealed in public and it's only a matter of time and and and one other quick thought on this is I think that consistency is such a an incredible asset to people that is totally underappreciated yeah because because you know consistency compounds I'm 73 and I can tell you right now the consistency of my life now is bringing fruit to my life that I I'm surprised I think how is this happening but it's because of this continual day in day out day in day out teaching leadership to so many people and after a while all of a sudden this return comes back that I would have never anticipated so today which we say is just today it doesn't seem so great several today's consistently done with the right reasons and the right priorities one day shows up hey today Sunday becomes what a day right you know it comes oh my gosh what a day we've got here well uh that day out there that we you know we graduate from college or we we get the promotion that you know when somebody graduates from college everybody's congratulating him well they didn't become successful when they got their diploma they became successful when they enrolled in college and they when they studied for the test when they went to class I mean they're they're already successful and I think sometimes we um confuse success which is required of us on a daily basis with recognition of success right which that doesn't happen until someplace back there we weren't that good when we got recognized and we weren't that bad when we did the routine stuff that we needed to do to get recognized yeah I think that's so important and I just kind of even want to highlight that for someone who's listening right now yes success isn't when you get the promotion or the book deal or launch your company or get acknowledged or get published or whatever uh success is when you're faithful today in doing the small things and along your line of saying overestimating underestimating I'd have been four years ago John tell me that something's very similar but he said that you'll you'll typically overestimate what you can do in the short run yes and they should be vastly underestimate what you can do through a lifetime of faithfulness and that's what you're talking about the I like the idea of consistency compounds it's so true I was doing I was doing a leadership conference one time and it was we're having a great day there were a couple thousand people there I was in my last break and I was signing some books and a kid with it was just getting his MBA came up to me so excited oh man I love what I love this he said I've decided I want to do what you do and I said well that's great I said I said I have a question for you so what's that it was so eager I said would you like to do what I did right so you can do what I do see the issue is not I want to do what you do everybody wants to do what somebody that's doing something really amazing does it I tell them forget I want to do what you do and go to well am I willing to did what you did you got to get in the dead world before you can get into the new world and and and so we had a nice conversation but I think so many times we see the success of somebody and we kind of gravitate like oh I want to do that not realizing there's a whole process of daily disciplines that got them there and without those they would have never had that day yeah yeah I can imagine somebody listening now just they're they're in the dating part yeah and I tell them if they don't do the dead they don't they're in deep do do I would like to talk to you a minute with Maxwell today on developing yourself growing yourself because really what I am is I'm in the people development business pretty much I walk into people's life find out where they are and then through serving and adding value to them hopefully help them get better that's what I do I'm glad you're with me a minute with Maxwell because in about a minute I can give you a thought or two that would help you to develop yourself because I think most people would like to get better in fact if you really don't want to get better you can just turn a minute with Maxwell off because this is what minute with Maxwell's all about helping you get better what we have to understand about developing ourselves and getting better is that it doesn't take Brilliance and it doesn't take a lot of time and it doesn't even take a lot of effort but it must be intentional that's the word I want to implant in your mind for a moment the fact that you don't get better automatically you only get better because you intentionally make a decision to get better and here's my word for you today I met with Maxwell here's how this works you have to go from being a person of good intentions to a person of good actions that's the great separator to develop yourself you've got to get out of the intending world and get into the doing world in fact your good intentions are good intentions but they're worthless totally worthless the most overrated phrase in the world is good intentions I know all kind of people they have good intentions but they never do good because they didn't act upon what they knew so if you want to develop yourself and you want to get better just act on what you've already expressed that you want to do the moment you quit talking about it and start doing it now you've got something I had a friend named Randy one time it came to me and said John your talk talks and your walk talks but your walk talks a lot louder than your talk talks true become a person of action today I I developed a strategy I want to give you right now called plan ahead and this is how to navigate successful change and can I tell you something I started I wrote this down at 27 I followed it I followed today it really works the letter p predetermined the change that's needed the first thing you want to do is you want to sit down and you want to pre-determine what is the change this need in my life because if you're going to turn something around change has to happen now you don't want action without understanding what you're wanting so your whole goal isn't to go in and change something your goal is to change something that matters that works so only you as a leader can predetermine what that change needs to look like and the way you do it is basically say this is what is I mean hey Lou Holt said I have a losing team I want to have a winning team what's it mean to take a losing team and make him a winning team I ask him that process and Luke told me he said John I asked the players that were on the team that were coming back why do you think you lost so many games last year he said what I did is I did two things I listened I listened to everybody that was in that losing environment I ask a lot of questions until I figured out what the issues were and then he said that great statement how does a leader that doesn't ask questions ever figure out what to do I love that if you're not asking questions of your people you don't have a clue where they are you don't have a clue what they think and he said I just asked questions Arthur Blank when he bought the Atlanta Falcons told me the very same thing he said John I just went out on this tree and I just asked the fans tell me why don't you go to the Falcons games this is because they stink they're not any good prices are too high food cost too much so I just got all those lists and he said what you see here's what here's what here's what these leaders know the answers to the questions you ask will be the strategy that you implement to make the change strategy is within the people but nobody's extracted it out of them so you've got to predetermine you got to predetermine the change that is needed and I think you do that by finding out where the people are asking the question after a while you've got it it begins the picture begins to be clear the letter a lay out your steps now I've got to lay out my steps to bring people through successful change if I walk close to the people through this change I'll be their leader if I walk far ahead of the people in this change I'll become a martyr you don't want to be a martyr the good news is if you die a martyr's death you're always special in the hearts of people bad news is you're dead that's not a good thing you with me so so you got to do what I call the leadership dance this is the leadership that you can call me the Arthur Murray of leadership okay here's the leadership debts that's the way this works you got to walk ahead of them so they can see where they got to go but you got to be close to them don't be walking far ahead of him you with me yes yes close enough so they can see you got to walk beside them so they can participate with you in the journey so that you can listen and you can interact and you can take this journey together they're in the seat beside you and you got to walk behind them so that you watch the people that you empower and the leadership dance is doing all three of those things at the same time you walk ahead as an example you walk beside as a friend you walk behind as a leader that empowers and once you can do those three things and mix it up with the people you're laying out your steps very well the letter a is a gesture priorities very simple whatever you're going through change there's no such thing as a pre-game plan that you actualize out completely let me tell you the difference between a manager and a leader a manager is a person who took plan a and won't get off of it because he doesn't want it to change on him he's got the plan out he's got the strategy out don't mess with it this is the strategy here stay right here let me tell you later a leader starts plan a because he knows you have to have a plan but he at any moment is ready to change to plan B because he's found out a better way if you think you get the answers on the front end you've not LED very much your answers come in the leadership itself not in the front end that's why plan a never ends up plan A it's plan b or plan C why because you adjust and you hear and you listen and you hey by the way you seize that opportunity remember the great coaches are great because they make halftime adjustments that pre-game plan at halftime has to be Revisited and you have to say Okay what works what does it work and the changes you make have to be critical changes not cosmetic changes remember this cosmetic changes are easy to accept and implement so people like cosmetic changes they change the color they change the number a little bit and they just love that kind of stuff it always kind of bugs me a little bit because I sit there and say and you know where are you going with it where are you going outside they like gray better than black okay what else are we going to do okay and so do you want to make you want to make critical you don't want to make cosmetic changes and understand understand this as you make these changes there's always an answer don't ever get into that scarcity mindset as a leader that if I go to this path there's no answer down to this path there's always an answer and there's usually more than one answer that's why leadership is such a great art leadership is such a great art because we you begin to understand that as you lead them as you Journey you give them the best leadership and that's why trust is essential in in the people with you that's why trust is essential so that you can make these changes as you go to get them there okay and the next one is notify your key personnel sit down when you're going through changes and there are two kinds of key people you need to notify you need to notify your influencers these are the people that they better say yes because you're not going to get it done without their yes their approval is essential are you with me so you gotta you've got to notify up front the influencer and you got to notify upfront the implementers they're the ones hey they're the ones that are going to make the dream come true so so you got to get the permission of the influencers for the plan to fly but then you got to get your implementers because they're going to work the plan so you notify Key Personnel then you a you allow time for acceptance now you you sit down with your key people and you allow them to have time to accept where you're going now this is where leadership art is at its highest form because your only gift you're only intuitive at intuition and timing are a result of a leadership gift or their result of giftedness whatever you're gifted in you understand timing and intuition if you're not gifted in it you don't have timing or intuition going for you at all so you're intuitive in your giftedness your ability to do timing is in your giftedness so this this allowing time for acceptance this is where you this is where you begin to allow people to have the time that they need ah to move forward with you and to do that to do that you have to first of all slow down and and I when I say slow down this is something I've always had a problem with I'm dealing with one of my weaknesses now I don't slow down well uh when I see it I'm gone and then I realized oh I gotta take people with me so I come back to get you but but when I come back to get you it's like are you ready and if I come back to get you and you're not ready I got you and and and I I'll sometimes go again and I have to I have to really work hard on this on this slowing down process okay because naturally I want to speed up I I don't like anything slow there's no I just I just you know I like to drive fast yeah just you know it's just I have a Need for Speed okay I have a Need for Speed okay and as a leader what happens is you get too far out in front of your people right you tell me and so you got to slow down second thing to do in this allowing time is is is you got to make sure you're clear in your communication because when they don't understand people cannot follow what they do not understand and so all communicators understand the value of clarity on the front end so I travel a lot and I brought this with me because I just love it when you travel you just find some funny things that are written and these are signs in English from various parts of the world for example a dry cleaners in Bangkok I love this drop your trousers here for the very best results [Laughter] it's a bunch of people in front of that dry cleaners moon in the rest the people Hotel brochure in Italy this hotel is renowned for its peace and Solitude in fact crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude this is from a Tokyo Hotel it is forbidden to steal Hotel towels please if you're not a person to do such a thing then please do not read this in Bucharest hotel lobby the lift is being fixed for the next day during that time we regret that you will be unbearable Hotel in Athens visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 o'clock daily is it complaining time yet is it in a Rome laundry ladies leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time tongue tailor shop ladies may have a fit upstairs in a Rhodes Taylor shop order your summer suits because it's a big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation bang next next in Copenhagen an airline ticket office we take your bags and send them in all directions we'll just send them anywhere they are possibly make your communication clear head into action hey just head into action get going just just start going you never know the level of commitment from your people until you ask for action you know you just never know how committed they are the letter e expect problems expect them why because motion causes friction you start moving and it's a tremendous leadership mistake to think that you have such a plan that is Problem free okay and then everybody will buy in so what leaders need to do here this is this is so beautiful it's so negative but it's so good would I say expect problems this whole process here's what you got to do as a leader you got to think the worst first you got to think the worst before anyone else you got to speak the worst first and you got to answer the worst first you got to do all three of those things in other words you got to think what problems are going to be there and then when you figure out what problem is going to be there you say now as we do this there are a whole bunch of problems we're going to encounter when you speak it up to the people that's oh my gosh he's already figured out that we got hey and let me tell you when those problems occur let me tell you what we're going to do well you can do that well understand you're really helping them with positive change and the next one is always point to your successes somebody said why is it because you always have people point to your failures I mean some people that's their spiritual gift you understand they can't find criticism they're just not very comfortable and then Daily Review your progress Daily Review your progress why because things get off on a daily basis things get off course on a daily basis things problems occur on a daily basis and I close this section of creating positive change which is the acid test of lead I close this because of the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership I have what I call the law of buy-in and the law of buy-in I think answers this whole process of of creating positive change with an organization the law buy-in just simply says people buy into the leader before they buy into the vision and so what I want you to understand is when people say can I create positive change within the organization can I do a U-turn can I turn this around the question is very simple how much of the people bought into you if they bought into you you can turn it around just think as I close of the story I gave you of Lou Holtz that turned six University programs around losing programs within two years had them in in college bowls think of what happened about the fifth College he went to with a reputation of a turnaround U-turn leader can you imagine just the excitement and the momentum of Lou Holtz coming to Arkansas we've been we just stink and he's going to come here and he's going to he's going to turn us into winners okay now let me tell you something it's a phenomenal thing when you have your reputation that your problem solver is a phenomenal thing when you have a reputation that you turn things going the wrong way around and you make them positive once you get that this is a leadership Edge that you have it's a leadership it gives you it gives you a sense of momentum it gives you a sense of moral Authority that allows you to come back into a situation and where now here's what I learned a long time ago when people believe the best in you as a leader they give their best to you as a leader so you want to become good at this session because this is the area that that once you can do it and you can do it well you kind of get a reputation as a turnaround artist a U-turn leader that creates positive change and then all kind of very good and exciting things happen now you and I we're very passionate about this it's the world of which we've we've grown up in but let's transition now from personally and and let's talk about John in the growth process talks about team growth and he talks about others growth that he gave us in the outline that that we have right here talk a little bit about as a leader when it comes to Leading our team and our organization the things that you really focus on from a from a growth standpoint making sure that we are growing as an organization and we're not staying stagnant yeah you know back in December we we were diligently setting our our budgets and our business plan objectives in place for here 2022 and here we are I mean we're focusing so I'm thinking back right now to a conversation I have with one of our p l owners and uh we're talking through his vehicle of how he is planning for this year for 2022. there was no comparative analysis on his budget if this particular phase in the budgeting and I asked him I said hey hey how do we do in this Con in this line last year well I'm not sure but I can get that answer for you mark well we're we're growing we're projecting 28 Revenue in this particular solutions group how much of your cost how much of your cost are you going to absorb is that good revenue or is it bad Revenue what did we do last year according to revenue well I'm not sure let me check here I illustrate that without names very purposely it's not you though Crisco you can feel good about this I illustrate this for this reason right here to answer this question I believe the greatest way to measure your business now this is going to freak some of you out is based on growth not on goals because I I want to say this because it's really important I believe hitting a small goal is worse than missing a big goal now we may unpack that if we have time because I have worked alongside people that did not agree with me said it was an Integrity issue well and I've been frustrated with you in the past if we're just being candid when you come in and challenge us and and yeah it's absolutely uh and we'll come back to that because I want to stay on this point of how do we manage our business in the John Maxwell Enterprise and from day one of me running this organization 11 years ago it's been on competitive uh comparative analysis comparative analysis here's what I mean when I get a business plan from you Chris or somebody else on our team I want to know how this compares to what we did last year in this particular business objective even when we're spending money when we're hiring more people I want to know what our cost of goods sold was last year compared to what we think they're going to be this year why because it creates one of our values this is why we're so passionate about this this is why I have the book right here for you I'm going to talk about that in a minute it's because I believe with the value of growth we should always be focused on growth and John teaches goals will take care of themselves yeah again I'm not minimizing those of us that have to work to set goals and and and be gold-minded but we have learned and I we grew me and you our leadership team grew our company from the day I took over as CEO till last year we grew 783 percent that's a big number that's a big goal we did that by focusing on growth we focus on growth by comparative analysis to the same period last year the same concept last year the same business line so on any any budget I look at the budget and I want to know is there a number compared to budget is there a number compared to performance last year and is there a percentage of growth from last year to this year or a decrease of spending this year compared to last year it's all on comparative analysis now I want to move on to point number two um which by the way we're not going to cover all four Jake doesn't let us cover all the content once we're in here together but but I love this because I think you have to then communicate the priority of this to the organization you know the last question that you just reviewed for us that John talked about is how many people then are they equipping so in this conversation you're my leader so your question to me is how many Chris how many people are you equipping in order to help us accomplish this this Mission this Vision we're after you said this statement I want to share this with with our audience um in one of our leadership team meetings you came in and you didn't even say hello you didn't even say hey how's everybody's weekend whatever you came in and you said all right here we go you couldn't be here today who's sitting in your seat well yep and all of us were like don't pick on me and you were just like go who is it Chris who is it right and so Becky who is it whatever and I was like man like that yeah that's so good if if we were doing this in a way that we should be doing it as As Leaders of organization we would we would have it right there but what you were doing was you were implementing and living out this hey I'm going to communicate this is a top priority for all of our people so talk about that talk about the desire that you have as a CEO of the Enterprise to make sure that your people and that you are continually uh emphasizing and communicating the power um and not only the power but the need because it's so critical to be developing and equipping your people well it's so funny because uh our podcast family is going to think that I'm just this Cutthroat gonna kill everybody cut everybody out fire everybody kind of leader I don't think I'm like that but later maybe I need to go check because let me tell you why I say that though Chris a week ago today I'm in a meeting with two of our leaders you were not even in the meeting and I said guys who's your replacement and they looked at me like what and I said by the way if something happens to me who's my replacement what are you going to do if something happens to me yeah now that's kind of fatalistic right and it's so funny that you you just don't reminded me I'd forgotten about that you reminded me of a meeting several months ago where I challenged every leader first thing I brought came into the meeting was hey who's your replacement what are you going to do and then I just had that same conversation a week ago I think and I justify it with this the law of the bench every leader is prepared surprises don't prepare leaders it reveals leaders I use all these illustrations and that was certainly my point seven days ago with these leaders guys who are you training for the the unexpected who is your law of the bench and I began to articulate to them what I may not have articulated in this leadership meeting that you're referencing I believe it's the responsibility of every leader to know his players and to strengthen the bench of players on the team that's not anything earth-shattering or great revealing I'm sure to our podcast audience what's revealing to me when you ask this question today is I told both of those leaders last week who I would replace them with if something happened to them now I was in this meeting I was really challenging them because we're not moving the ball forward as quickly as I feel like that um we should and I was going guys who is your replacement and be inviting them into it because they probably can make you better so it wasn't just let's find a replacement it was who else is brainstorming with you because your replacement may have better ideas than you because you're too close to the challenge yeah love that but as I'm listening to the you asked me that question today as I'm reminded that I asked that question again one week ago which means I may be asking that question way too much I realized that while I have a plan on who would be their replacement I have no intentionality on how I am equipping them today so what am I going to do Chris am I going to wait to equip my bench when they're actually in the game or am I going to equip them while they're on the bench so that if an injury happens they're able to get right in your son plays football you played football no coach wait until the injury to equip the second string the second string is making the first string better by learning the game plan by scrimmaging with them in the leadership game and mine in your company podcast listeners are we scrimmaging enough with the uh the backups to make sure that they are equipped when they become a starter yeah and I'm telling you this right here I need to quit recording a podcast and go equip some people because I've got a plan yeah I just am not backing that plan up of equipping to make sure they're ready for game yeah to further that illustration and then I'm gonna move on to the last point you look at now we're biased we're in the South so we're big SEC fans when you look at the level of uh schools at the highest level in the SEC the reason they're successful is they have a bench that is ready to step in at any point in time injury draft next man up and they talk about that and they talk about it so do we run our teams like that do we run our companies like that you and I are sitting here shaking our head no together and I was doing that just for our viewers not for our podcast listeners I didn't want the podcast listeners and so I love this right you've got to be communicating this because it has to be a priority not to only to you as a leader you gotta back you know I'm not going to cover point four but John lays out an incredible model yeah and the first one he talks about is model it so leaders before you go communicating this you need to be modeling it so that then your people understand what that looks like that's the first step of the five M's that John gives us the truly born leader will always emerge but to stay on top natural leadership characteristics must be develop so the question is this how do we develop our leadership qualities and characteristics and our leadership skills about a month and a half ago I was thinking about this because I was in a q a and while I was in teaching leadership somebody raised that question they said John you talk a lot about developing leaders can you give me a handle can you just give me some things that I can really remember that will help me to do so and off the just off the cuff I shared with them the basically the outline that I'm going to give with you today with some content in between so let's look at it there are three what I call the three E's of leadership development the first is environment I have found that leaders leaders that are developed are leader they're developed because they are in some kind of a leadership environment this is incarnational this this transfers leadership is almost an incarnational or a way that this is how leadership is fleshed out leaders do what leaders experience and when I talk about environment I'm talking about putting an environment in a person's life that they begin to experience leadership they they see it around them they feel it and they understand it they understand it not because they sat down and took a lesson on leadership they understand it because they were around leaders they understand it because leadership principles and Leadership values were talked about lived out fleshed out embraced okay so let's talk about let me Define incarnation since that's a phrase I use it's a really it's a theology phrase from my background but when Incarnation is really connecting abstract ideas to human characteristics in other words it's taking something that is subjective or an abstract idea and flashing it out until you can see it visualized in the life of a person or the characteristics of a person's Behavior and what I'm saying here is that leadership is more caught than taught that's what the leadership environment is all about creating an environment where they catch leadership now I grew up in a leadership environment so I can talk a long time on what it means to have a leadership environment and I can just say this I can never think of a time when I did not realize the importance of leadership I I didn't have to have anybody sit down and say you know John it's really important for you to learn how to lead it's very important for you to learn leadership characteristics I I saw them in my I saw them in my family I watched them fleshed out around me you need to develop a leadership environment until leadership is not something that is extraordinary and exceptional but leadership is something that everybody does because really leadership properly understood everybody can influence everybody can lead within an organization the right environment allows people who are good to get better just like a wrong environment allows people who are good to become worse look at environment as the as that which helps to create something for you that enhances already what you can do and what you already do know now the second e is equipping and that's probably the one we know the very best as far as development leaders because equipping is intentional and basically leaders do what leaders learn see in the environment leaders do what leaders experience now we're going to talk about leaders really do what leaders learn and the function of leadership is very simple is to produce more leaders not more followers now I'm going to read something to you I just picked this up recently and I thought this is the this is the approach this is the wrong approach wrong example of how most people get in trouble in this area of equipping Henry Ford was a genius when it came to Automobiles and the methods of mass production but I believe his understanding of the worker was too limited when he asked here's what Henry Ford asked why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands what was he talking about the assembly line he was just basically saying I don't anybody can think I just want somebody to put the part there just okay it's just all I want you know I don't want your mind I don't want your spirit I don't want your soul I don't want your will I don't want your commitment I don't even want your loyalty just I want your two hands I know most people when they look at the people that they have in their company their organization this is a downfall of a lot of people they don't understand the development of the whole person they don't understand the big picture they just basically see the job and they see the job and they said this is what's required for the job so what do I have to do to teach you what's required of the job and do you have the two hands and can't you put those put that in the assembly line and and keep it going equipping begins with expectations let's start there to really develop a leadership equipping organization it begins with expectations and the first and there are three I'm going to give you I'll give them to you kind of quickly one leadership determines growth one of the first expectations you place upon people when you equip them to lead is the fact that the reason you're equipping in the lead is if they learn how to lead it will bring growth to the organization the second expectation that I gave them in equipping them is that leadership can be learned leadership can be learned the third expectation is that each leader equips leaders and I was always very careful to say this to them work your way out of your job if you've got a good job that's great now let me tell you what I want you to do I want you to work your way out of your job go find somebody else train somebody else develop somebody else equip somebody else and you know in the in the hospital emergency room there's a saying and it's just a simple saying because they got to do training and equipping quick in an emergency room okay I mean it's not like you you get a lifetime for this and and they what are they they say watch one do one teach one you have to be very intentional in how you're training and equipping them then the third e is exposure expose them which that now this is this is the inspirational side of developing leaders leaders do what leaders see okay in fact I love this statement a little exposure upsets a lot of theory I think kids should not be allowed to go to college four years in a row I think they should go for one year to meet their friends party then I think they ought to go get them a job because you remember in class when you were teachers would ask you props to ask you do you have a question on what I'm teaching of course we didn't have a good question we didn't have any experience we didn't know what good question to ask we were just stupid kids with a textbook filling in blanks making profs happy the only way you're ever going to have real questions is to go out there and try it be exposed to it now can I tell you something I had no questions when I was working on my bachelor of theology degree I mean I had very little and I went through it and got pretty decent grades and graduated the whole deal but can I tell you six months after I had my first church I had a boatload a question no what happened exposure now all of a sudden I'm into a real world and all of a sudden all the stuff that I need to know that will help me to be successful in life I don't know so when I write it talk about exposure expose means to make accessible to some action or influence expose your leaders I want to tell you what exposure leaders first of all to great leaders in my world what that's meant for oh my goodness 20 years is that I've intentionally every month had what I call a learning lunch where I sit down with somebody that's smarter than I am faster than I am better than I am and I buy their lunch and what that means is they get to eat and I don't and I ask questions and I just learn from them and I just glean from them okay what kind of exposure am I getting to to great leaders how do you learn leadership how do you develop leaders by exposing them to leaders but one closing thought on exposing people exposure leaders to the works of great leaders here's what I tell people you may never have the privilege of being around all the great leaders you want to be but I mean can tell you right now you can almost always get through the works of great leaders the three E's environment that's incarnational this is what people experience people do what what people experience equipping this is intentional this is where we teach them this is how they learn and then exposure this is something that they see that they experience in their own life the three E's of developing you the first question is very simple what are you doing to develop yourself and if you say my gosh John I'll tell you right now I'm doing a lot to develop myself I I mean I've got a personal growth plan and and I'm intentional in this and I'm doing this on a daily deal if you could say that to me then I'd say hey we're in good shape here we're in good shape because that's the key you know what what are you doing to develop yourself and and by the way the reason that's first is not because you want to be selfish it's kind of like almost a selfish question person says well why do I start with myself the reason you start with yourself is because you cannot give what you do not have so you better start with yourself because if you're leading others and have nothing to give them nothing to share with them nothing to teach them then I can promise you you'll never be what you want to be as a leader and I can promise you that after 40 Years of personal growth The Secret of any success if I've had any success at all the secret of that success has been personal growth in my life and and growth has has literally placed me where I am so so what are you doing to develop yourself it's a huge question and the 15 laws of the 15 laws of personal growth basically these laws are all about developing yourself and developing the second question what are you doing to develop others you see on the first question you're foundational for your future the second question is all about compounding multiplication that's where you build a huge business when you know how to develop other people and what we have to understand about the law of intentionality is that you cannot develop yourself and you cannot develop your people unless you're intentional what are some of the keys to fostering the growth of leaders within your organization first of all I think that Tom I think 90 percent of leaders never develop leaders I think they just have followers and one of the reasons is a lot of leaders don't really want other leaders leaders are hard to lead I mean it's like hurting cats you know I mean they just don't they just don't naturally fall in line so so I I think that first of all most people don't really develop leaders but but in developing leaders you know there are three things that are just absolutely essential um you know in the book the latest Leader's greatest return I wrote the leader's greatest return because I truly believe that the greatest return ever a leader ever gets is developing other leaders because that's when you really begin to compound and I think there are three three Essentials always in developing leaders first of all is is your own example um people do what people see so if I'm going to develop leaders I have to be a good leader maybe the greatest leadership words ever said was follow me just just follow me watch me because people what said research says that 89 of what we know we know visually yeah and so I I think first of all development leaders you have to model it the second thing I think in developing leaders is you have to be intentional I think that um uh you have to commit yourself to finding them which I talk about in the book letting him come to the leadership table Discerning what kind of capacity they have and then I think you have to intentionally have a a program of development for them I think you have to have a process I think of all the money we spend in companies in in marketing and in advertising and and you know I was I was speaking one time this is several years ago for a t and uh when I got was introduced to their maybe top 300 leaders I was going to spend an afternoon with a uh the case said something very interesting he said to them he said you're our most appreciable asset and of course that's a wonderful statement there everybody loves that and and I came up behind him and I said it's true it's not true I said you're really only an appreciable asset if somebody intentionally develops you and you intentionally develop yourself we don't automatically get better and this is a big mess I think that we think well if I just automatically go to work or if I automatically do my job that I'll just grow and and you know I had a mentor when I was in my 20s just say you know John growth is not automatic you know getting odors automatic but but getting better isn't and and there's a world of difference so I think that you have to be an example and I think you have to be incredibly intentional in saying okay I'm gonna have a leadership culture I'm gonna I'm gonna I I I'm going to develop leaders and the third thing I think that is just overlooked consistently in development issues is that you you've got to empower them you you have got to um let them Roth the ball because the only way you learn leadership is by practicing leadership so I think what a good leader does is he sets the or she sets the stage for a successful run you want to get some wins under their belts for them and uh I just think that it's an empowering environment where you release people and the problem is leaders will stop saying well but they don't do it as well as I do it and so that's not the point the only way they can ever do it as well is that you you do it is for them to do it and then for you to coach them and come alongside of them and and say okay here's how you can do that better and you know we have a kind of like a five-step equipping process I do it I do it you're with me you do it I'm with you you do it and then you do it in someone else's with you and it's a multiplication process there so I think those three things of the example the intentionality and the empowerment that's I think what develops a leadership culture that really establishes the fact that if you want to learn how to lead this is a place where yeah where you can do that I say this in the book by the way um that when I would bring people on the team I would share with them that I wanted them to work themselves out of a job yeah and and and and pretty much I would just say okay you've got the job I want you to do it well let me see you do it well but while you're doing it well you find somebody to replace replace you and and that's how you boy that's really how you develop it you talk about a a farm team of leaders and and if if you can work yourself out of your job I'll give you another job you know uh Mark Cole who he and I are are owners of the company now and he's the CEO and president but he started off in in the stock room 20 years ago well 20 years ago and I was just asking him recently in the conversation how many jobs did you work your way out of to get where you are he said nine nine nine times and I tell people first of all I can't promote you unless you got somebody to replace you so the first part of promotion isn't just getting better till I want to bring you up first promotion is to show me some person that we're not going to have a big loss if I do bring you up and you know nine times he worked himself out of a job found somebody else and said okay come on up come on up come on up until one day he's he's where he is not bad that's very impressive I'll bet that you want to be successful in fact I will also wager that you have spent a lot of times asking yourself the question how can I be successful what is success how can I achieve the dreams that I have Within Myself and I just want to begin this talk by congratulating you because if those are questions you've asked if those are thoughts that you have gone through your mind I want you to know that you have probably within you a restlessness and a potential that says to me that you have not yet achieved your maximum success you have not yet probably arrived to your greatest potential and that's why we're spending time together because I have a passion a great passion in my life to help people be successful There's No Greater Joy that I have than to walk along beside somebody just like you and find out where you are and then say okay this is where you are but this is where you could be and you look at me and say John that's exactly what I want I want to go there I want to be there I want to I want to arrive that to that destination and together we kind of we kind of work it out and and we make it so let's talk about success you see the first mistake that people make about success is that they somehow think that it's a destination so they'll come up to me and they'll say John how do I become a success how do I arrive to my dream and and I can tell that they look at success as something out there here and success is out there and so somehow they think that over time I suppose that if they do the right things they can get there and I the first thing I want you to know that success is is not a destination it's a journey think of success as a process let me let me illustrate it and explain it this way uh if you go to college uh you work hard and in four or five years depending on what kind of degree you're working on it and in today's society sometimes six or seven years but but eventually uh you comes the day of graduation and you're all excited and your family is there and your friends are there and and you're there with your classmates you've got your cap and your gown and and you know that there's going to be a time in that ceremony where you're going to walk across stage in the president Provost somebody's going to shake your hand hand you a diploma congratulate you and and you're going to get off the other side they're going to have presents waiting for you and they'll be taking pictures and everybody will be shaking their hands say congratulations today you become a success you're a college graduate now now my friend you did not become a success the day that you got your diploma now what you did have happened to you in that ceremony is you got recognized for success the diploma is recognition of what you have done the previous four or five years you see you're a success in your freshman year when you decided to not drop out of school like some of your other classmates and decided to stick to it and you were success every time you studied for a test and you were success every time you did a project or or did a writing assignment you see you're a success all through all through school you're a success every day success is a daily thing not a destination thing the day you got the diploma you just got recognized for the success that you already were now that's very essential because so many times people have a have a tendency to devalue the moment today what they do is they greatly value the destination and so they kind of talk about well when I get there or if I arrive there or when I do that or when I accomplish this and they don't understand that success is a daily thing and I'm here to share with you that the secret of success is determined by your daily agenda in fact I wrote a book a few years ago called today matters I'm passionate about that book because what it does is it helps you it helps me to understand that we make decisions and then we manage decisions and and too often we think I will make a decision for example you're saying I'm going to make a decision to be a coach or I'm going to make a decision now you know what I'm going to make a decision to to be a public speaker I want to be a communicator well congratulations congratulations you've made a wonderful decision coach speaking good decisions but that won't make you a successful coach that will make you a successful communicator it's not the decision that makes you you've got to make the decision by managing it and you manage the decision on a daily basis in other words what you want to be tomorrow you've got to do today you visualize tomorrow that gives you hope and that's your motivation and that's your dream you nothing wrong with that you visualize tomorrow but you value today what's that mean that means that what I do every day is either getting me closer to that Vision that dream that goal or it's really driving me farther away from it you see every day we are either repairing or we're preparing you see if I messed up yesterday guess what I get to do today fix yesterday in other words if I didn't do the right thing yesterday what I got to do today is I've got to repair I've got to go back make a man's backtrack put the car in Reverse put my life In Reverse I've got to go back there I've got to repair now every day I spend repairing I'm not spending preparing well you see we repair when we fail to manage the decisions that we've made we prepare when we on a daily basis manage the decisions that we've made so your Footprints to success are really Footprints of success because every step that is made and taken based upon the goals that you have for your life and you're managing those goals correctly every step is the progressive realization of success in your life and by the way oh why you'll get the diploma you'll get the certificate but but when you get that you didn't arrive it just is another step in preparing you to reach your potential each one of us should live our life as if we'll never learn everything we never need to learn we'll never be able to accomplish everything we wanted to accomplish we won't be able to experience everything we wanted to experience we should live our life every day hungry understanding that we are to live until we die you see I think success can't be summarized in a flippant degree or program or diploma or arrival I think today if you are learning to coach if you are learning to speak if you're doing the things that are essential to the decisions and you're managing those decisions well can I say something to you congratulations you are already a success now guess what over time it shows up you've heard the expression you maybe even said it yourself you've heard the expression I'm sure I've worked all my life to become an overnight success that's the way it works all of a sudden somebody recognizes you all of a sudden somebody congratulates you you didn't get good at that moment you've been good for a long time it just showed up someday so as I walk alongside of you the reason we have tools and resources and helps and principles that we teach is because every day we want you to learn every day we want you to grow every day we want you to absorb every day we want you to do the things that will help you to someday be the person that you want to become the journey is a delightful experience the only thing better than taking the journey by yourself is to take the journey with someone else to learn together to grow together to develop together to be great together that's what I want for you [Music] welcome to the Maxwell leadership executive podcast where our goal is to help you increase your reputation as a leader increase your ability to influence others and increase your ability to fully engage your team to deliver remarkable results

Channel: Maxwell Leadership

Views: 44,953

Keywords: john maxwell, coaching, training, mentoring, leadership, self growth, self help, personal transformation, personal development, speaker, author, coach, john c. maxwell

Id: 2gCaTif5EpQ

Length: 85min 47sec (5147 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 25 2023