6 Steps to Successful Personal Change (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Where does change begin, and how can you make it last? This is the question at the heart of intentional growth – and in today’s episode, John Maxwell has the answer for you! Tune in to learn 3 of the 6 steps to successful personal change.
Stick around after John’s lesson for Mark Cole’s and Traci Morrow’s insights designed to help you apply the lesson to your life and leadership!
Key takeaways:
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One person cannot change another person.
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To change your outcomes, start by changing your thinking.
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Positive expectations are key to successful change.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the 6 Steps to Successful Personal Change (Part 1) Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/SuccessfulChange and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | We're so glad you're here today because today, guess what, you're in for a change. |
| 0:15.9 | How many of you, like right now, you just, there's something you've been meaning to change, something you're |
| 0:21.6 | wanting to change, something that you know has to change. Red Smith says if you really wanted to be |
| 0:28.2 | any different, you would be in the process of changing right now. Isn't that so true, Tracy? |
| 0:34.6 | It is true. And I think it really comes down to that deep question. We all have to |
| 0:39.6 | ask ourselves is, do I really want to change this? Or am I just circling around talking about |
| 0:46.1 | wanting to change it? It's true. It's so true. Tracy Morrill will be back with me right after |
| 0:52.8 | we hear from John. John today is launching a two |
| 0:55.9 | episode series for us to talk through six steps to successful personal change. Today we'll dig |
| 1:04.3 | into three of those and then Tracy and I'll come back and then once John is done, we'll have a |
| 1:09.8 | great time and be back next episode. |
| 1:12.0 | You guys, you have really impacted us with your feedback. |
| 1:15.8 | And so we just continue to look for more and more ways to bring you more and more of John. |
| 1:20.1 | And that's going to happen today. |
| 1:21.6 | So here's what I need you to do. |
| 1:23.2 | Grab a pen, grab some paper, grab your technology. |
| 1:26.4 | John's going to give you some things that will change your mindset so you can change your outcomes. |
| 1:32.5 | If you want to download the bonus resource or if you would like to watch us on YouTube, |
| 1:38.1 | you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash successful change. |
| 1:44.2 | All right, here we go. |
| 1:45.8 | Get ready for a change. |
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