Hey, welcome back to the John Maxwell leadership podcast. My name is Mark Cole. And today I will be joined by Jason Brooks. Now you know Jason. Jason has been working alongside us for several years on John's content. And you're going to hear from him.

You're going to hear from me the privilege of extending John Maxwell's legacy. Now today you are in part two of a month of Melvin Maxwell who is Melvin Maxwell. That is John Maxwell's father.

He's 98 years old when he passed away on July 4th of 2020. And so when John began to reflect on his father's life, he developed 29 things that has profoundly impacted his life because of his dad Melvin.

Today you are going to hear part two in fact lessons seven through 12 of what John learned from Melvin Maxwell. You can go to Maxwell podcast.com forward slash Melvin. Click on the bonus resource button and you'll be able to get all 29 lessons.

You can also go there and see John giving this talk live by video. But we hope you'll listen through the podcast today. I hope you'll be back with us because Jason and I will give you application on how we are applying the life of Melvin Maxwell to our business and to our nonprofits. Now here is John Maxwell.

I'm so glad you're back with me today as I give my second lessons on tribute to my father. He passed away on July 4th.

I live to be 98 years and eight months taught me a lot of great lessons. I want to again say to you that it's perhaps I'm going to share a few lessons that will be about faith and and it's possible that you're not a person of faith and you know how much I value you you don't have to be like me for me to value you I value everybody.

And so when I talk about faith I don't want you at all to feel offended. I want you to know that I just care for you and I only talk to you about it because that's part of my journey my dad's journey and I think what you'll love about me when I do talk about it is that you'll find that there are some principles in faith that will add value to you whether you're a person of faith or not so it doesn't matter.

I just want you to know that these were lessons that helped me and my name is John and I'm your friend and I want to pass them on to you. Now in my first and by the way you can go back and pick up last week's lesson if you want to the first tribute to my father.

I gave you at that time six lessons one ad value to people to pray without ceasing three be consistent four share my faith these are things that taught me five stay focused and number six travel the high road.

Now I'm a little bit in trouble to be honest with you. I mean I'll show you my sheets right here. They're 29 lessons.

So I'm going to do my best to get through. I thought I would do this in three let the three times with you, but I only did six which we now got 23 to go there. It's a possibility there may be four lessons on tributes to my father.

Okay, because I'm not sure I can get through in three, but let's get going and see how far I go today. I'm going to start off with lesson number seven and.

Okay, this is one that you know he just lived out and by the way the lessons my father taught me were more than words they were his actions in fact some of the lessons were more actions than his words, which is a kind of a good thing.

You know, I often say that if you're not really good, you just tell in other words, you talk.

But if you're really good, you show and tell you not only talk, but you back it up with your with your actions. My dad was a show and tell man listen up lesson number seven encourage others.

You have never met a person that was the great encourageer that my father was.

In fact, at his memorial service, one of the things I shared with at giving my time of loving him and respecting him to others.

One of the things I shared with him in the in the message was that about him was the fact that he was a great encourageer and I closed my time at that memorial service by showing a five minute video when dad was 88 and I hadn't come up on to the stage at a place where I was speaking.

And I gave him a few minutes to talk about what he was doing and how he just encouraged oh my gosh, a crowd of probably six or seven thousand people and they were on their feet giving him a standing ovation and and I'm going to I did that in the in in the memorial service because I wanted people that didn't know him. They just hear me talk about him.

I just really get to see him in action, but he was a great, great encourageer one one quick story.

For a period of time, Margaret and I lived in a condominium and in the condominium, the bottom had a gym and so I had a terrific physical trainer named Josephine, I called her Joe, that would meet me on a regular basis and and take me through the paces of working out.

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