Defining Greatness (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, podcast family! To kick off 2021, we're starting a new series called Defining Greatness. We recorded this series last year just before COVID-19 drastically changed the way many of us live our lives. After recording it, we decided that it wasn't the right time to release the series.
But, with high expectations for the new year––which we believe will be a year of greatness and transformation––this is the perfect series with which to kick off 2021, and we're excited to finally share it with you! In this series, John shares the qualities he believes make great leaders great. In part one, John shares how great leaders think and how they prepare.
We're also excited to have Traci Morrow back on the podcast with Mark Cole. Together, they discuss how their own thinking habits play a role in their leadership, influence, and growth.
Our BONUS resource for this series is the Defining Greatness Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Great and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
Change Your World by John C. Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Thinking for a Change by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year, everyone. Mark Cole here. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | Over the next two weeks, we have something very special for you to help you kick off this new year. |
| 0:19.2 | This is actually a two-part series we recorded last year just before COVID-19 started to change, |
| 0:26.8 | radically change our lives in 2020. After we recorded it, we decided it wasn't the right time to |
| 0:34.4 | release this series. But now, 2021, this is the perfect series to begin our new year. We're calling |
| 0:43.7 | the series Defining Greatness. We believe this year will be a year of transformation, of change, |
| 0:51.6 | yes, even of greatness. Throughout this series, John teaches that there are four areas in a leader's |
| 0:58.7 | life that determines their greatness. This series walks you through those four areas, |
| 1:04.8 | provides examples for each quality and how they are played out in leadership. In part one, John |
| 1:11.4 | talks about the first two qualities, and next week he'll talk about the third and fourth qualities |
| 1:17.5 | that determine a leader's greatness. After John's lesson, I'll be joined by my friend, |
| 1:22.8 | my co-host Tracy Morrow, to dive deeper into John's lesson and how to apply it to our lives and to |
| 1:30.2 | our leadership. To get the fill-in the blank notes for this series, please go to MaxwellPodcast.com |
| 1:38.0 | forward slash great. Click on the bonus resource button, grab a pen, and lean in. We hope you enjoy, |
| 1:46.5 | we hope you activate. Here is Dr. John C. Maxwell. |
| 2:03.6 | Today I want to talk to you on the subject of greatness. Greatness you're not born with. |
| 2:09.6 | Greatness will be determined by the choices you make throughout your entire life. |
| 2:16.3 | And defining greatness is almost to me as challenging as achieving it. I've studied success, |
| 2:24.5 | and I've studied significance, and I've studied greatness, and I'm going to try to define it for you |
| 2:29.6 | now, because I think they are all wonderful, but I do think they're different. Success is how well |
| 2:35.9 | I have done for myself. Significance is how well I've done for myself and others. |
| 2:43.5 | Obviously that's a whole different level. I've often said successes about me, |
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