6 Steps to Successful Personal Change (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
"You're responsible for the changes that you make in your life. But the good news is you can make the changes you need to make in your life." In this part 2 episode of our series on successful change, John is equipping you with the insight you need to pivot your performance for good!
After John's lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow discuss his points to help you apply them directly for your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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If change isn't awkward, it's not change.
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Celebrate small wins and learn from missteps.
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Count the cost of change, but don't lose sight of the immense rewards.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the 6 Steps to Successful Personal Change (Part 2) 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. |
| 0:10.1 | My name is Mark Cole, and we're in part two, which really means that if this is your first podcast, you are behind. |
| 0:19.3 | You want to pause. |
| 0:20.5 | You want to go back last week, Tracy, because we covered |
| 0:23.6 | part one last week. Tracy, we talked about change. We talked about John gave us some basis of change, |
| 0:30.2 | and we're going to continue that with three today. But I've got to ask you something. You've changed |
| 0:33.7 | a lot. You've changed from being a mom now to being a grandparent. |
| 0:37.9 | Talk to me about that change. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, it's the best change ever. |
| 0:42.9 | It's changing from being the one who says all the rules to being the one who gets to kind of push the boundaries of the rules. |
| 0:51.1 | So that's our lesson today. |
| 0:52.9 | Become a grandparent and you'll get to change the rules. |
| 0:58.1 | That's awesome. Hey, well, John said last week, you said, when you change your thinking, you change your beliefs. |
| 1:03.9 | When you change your beliefs, you change your expectations. When you change your expectations, |
| 1:08.9 | you change your attitude. Let's find out today from John what happens when you change your expectations, you change your attitude. Let's find out today from John what happens when you change your attitude |
| 1:16.0 | and two other changes that John's going to talk about. |
| 1:19.7 | Hey, if you'd like to download the bonus resource, |
| 1:22.7 | you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash successful change and you'll be able to get more information |
| 1:31.0 | there as well as watch us on YouTube. Okay, grab your pen, grab your paper. Here is John |
| 1:37.0 | talking about successful personal change. And number four, let's just go on in this process of how to make personal changes with their life. |
| 1:50.9 | When you change your attitude, you change your behavior. |
| 1:56.5 | That which has our attention is going to determine our action. |
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