Candid Conversations: John's Word for 2020
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Every year, after John Maxwell's year in review process of reflecting on the past year, John chooses a word that encompasses the main area of focus that he wants to the accomplish in the coming year. In this Candid Conversation, John Maxwell and Mark Cole talk about their words for the year and why they chose them.
Based on their words for the year, John and Mark discuss what it means to put something behind you in order to move forward. This means resolving issues and facing them head on instead of suppressing or neglecting them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is Mark Cole and you have joined |
| 0:12.4 | us for another episode with a candid conversation. And you know as I do that that means John |
| 0:18.8 | Maxwell's here live with me and John, good morning. Glad you're here. |
| 0:24.0 | Great to be with you. Hey, Palm Springs today. |
| 0:27.0 | Let me explain what here means. John and I have been on the West Coast. We met with Marcus |
| 0:33.4 | Buckingham on this trip. John, you did a incredible job speaking with world financial group yesterday. |
| 0:40.0 | They just absolutely loved you. Wasn't that a great audience to speak to? |
| 0:42.9 | Beautiful people. You know, I always love it when I'm able to share with people that are hungry. |
| 0:47.8 | And there are just some groups that they just want to grow and they want to get better. |
| 0:52.7 | And this was a great group and it was a wonderful experience. |
| 0:56.0 | So we got up this morning super early. Got to catch two or three different planes to get over to |
| 1:01.5 | Cincinnati because you're speaking to General Electric tomorrow. |
| 1:04.6 | Correct. Their aviation division, all their major divisions are taught people that the CEO |
| 1:08.9 | read you and enjoys you and want you to come in and speak to his top leaders. That's going to be |
| 1:13.2 | fun. But here does not mean on an air point. We're supposed to be on an airplane halfway to Cincinnati |
| 1:19.1 | right now. And boy, travel has a way of humbling us. Sure that. |
| 1:25.8 | So we're actually, we're still in California. Glad you're here. |
| 1:28.5 | We still got a lot of travel ahead of us today. But I wanted to sit down with you because let |
| 1:32.7 | let me tell you about a month ago, John, as you know, we delivered on our Wednesday podcast. |
| 1:39.4 | We delivered your philosophy, your application, the steps you use to review your previous year |
| 1:48.5 | and set your plan for the next year. It's something you religiously do. You've done that. |
| 1:53.6 | You've taught me to do it. I've not done it. Eight, 18 years in a row. It's profoundly impacting |
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