Candid Conversations: Never Stop Sowing in Others
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In July of 1976, John realized his calling in life was to add value to leaders. In this new Candid Conversation, John reflects on five major events he has participated in over the last eight days. He shows how they’re examples of and the fulfillment of his call to add value to leaders who multiply value to others. Are you ready to live out your calling?
John adds value to people because he values people. He wants to sow seeds of potential into them. His goal has always been to sow seeds and not worry about the harvest. In this candid conversation, he shares a powerful takeaway you can apply to your own leadership impact: If you add value to people with the hopes of getting a return, you do not get joy until you get a return. However, if you sow in order to add value to people, you receive joy in the moment!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I am sitting here today with the John |
| 0:13.2 | Maxwell. And I say the John Maxwell because we've had a couple of great weeks, John. And |
| 0:18.6 | this is just kind of unplugged. And I am sitting across the table in John Maxwell's hotel |
| 0:24.9 | room in Peru. Not Peru. It's Paraguay, John. Sorry, it's up to like, we've been in Peru. And we're |
| 0:33.7 | going to talk about that in a minute. But we're actually now in Paraguay. We'll talk about that |
| 0:37.5 | a lot. Well Mark, think about it as much as you and I travel. Haven't you sometimes literally |
| 0:41.3 | walking up in the middle of the night in a hotel room and ask yourself where am I? It's |
| 0:45.5 | happened to me too. I mean, it's like, okay. And more important to where am I? Where's |
| 0:50.2 | the bathroom? Yes, exactly. I just hit a wall. Okay. In the last room, it was there. Whoops. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What am I supposed to do today after I go to the restroom? Yeah. |
| 0:59.2 | My gosh. So again, gang, we're getting great feedback from these unpluggeds. And I can assure |
| 1:05.1 | you that today is going to be no different. I'm sitting across the table from John just |
| 1:11.0 | had a birthday. And somebody today called you 73. I know. And I didn't interrupt him. You know, |
| 1:17.3 | because I'm only 72. And when they said 73, I thought, does it really matter? Yeah. |
| 1:23.1 | I mean, it's 73, 72. Oh, it is old. 72, 73. You know, I'm sitting across gang from the man |
| 1:30.9 | that mentors you and I and has made such an impact. And again, sitting in Paraguay. And John, |
| 1:38.4 | you have, I don't know when you discovered your life purpose of adding value to leaders who |
| 1:43.8 | multiply value to others, but it has since because you found companies, it's now our North Star. |
| 1:49.7 | It's now what we shoot for every single day. Are we adding value? Are we adding value to leaders? |
| 1:56.1 | Not just people. We're called to leaders. And are we adding value to leaders? You have a |
| 2:00.7 | propensity to action. In other words, are they multiplying value to others? And I've watched you |
| 2:06.2 | in 19 years for me. I've watched you live this out. And now it is mind boggling the payoff, the |
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