Five Stretches to Help You Grow
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John Maxwell teaches five ways that leaders need to stretch themselves in order to grow. He sets up this lesson by teaching the Law of the Rubber Band, which says, "Growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you can be."
Mark Cole is joined by Traci Morrow for the application portion of the episode to discuss the areas of their lives they've had to take out of "automatic" and how their roles as leaders have required them to stretch their perspectives.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Five Stretches to Help You Grow Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Stretch and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxxel Leadership Podcast. We are so excited to bring you into |
| 0:11.9 | a conversation today that John just gave called five stretches to help you grow. In this |
| 0:19.4 | lesson, John's going to introduce the Law of the Rubber Band, which states growth stops |
| 0:25.7 | when you lose the tension between where you are and where you can be. Now, you're getting ready |
| 0:31.2 | to hear John. Now, when John is done, my friend, your friend, Tracy Morrow is here to co-host with me, |
| 0:38.0 | and we're looking forward to giving you application that will make a difference. If you want to download |
| 0:42.8 | the worksheet, you can go to maxwelpodcast.com forward slash stretch, click the bonus resource button, |
| 0:50.4 | and you will be able to follow along as John teaches. Now, here is John C. Maxwell. |
| 1:06.4 | Hi, John Maxwell here. I'm so glad to be with you today and to teach another lesson that kind of, |
| 1:11.9 | I don't know, encourages us, helps us to, you know, just cope with what's happening in our world |
| 1:17.9 | right now, and even more than cope, helps us to get in front of our people and lead them in a |
| 1:25.4 | correct way. And as I was thinking about the lesson I want to do with you today, if you watch |
| 1:31.2 | minute with maxwelpodcast, if you watch in April and May this month, every time you turn on, I do what |
| 1:39.1 | I call a stretch statement, which is pretty much a quote from some pretty famous person usually, |
| 1:46.6 | that just helps us to kind of get through the dark days and the tough uphill climb. |
| 1:52.6 | And as I was thinking about the minute with maxwelpodcast, I thought to myself, I want to do something |
| 1:57.8 | that's not on minute with maxwelpodcast, but I want to give you some stretch statements in teaching, |
| 2:03.0 | okay? And the reason that I do that is because really when we are in the middle of what we're in |
| 2:09.0 | right now, the question is, are we going to stretch and go to something and towards something, |
| 2:16.4 | or are we going to shrink? Are we going to pull back? Are we going to keep turning around and |
| 2:21.6 | looking behind us instead of looking at what is before us? And I would encourage you, if you |
| 2:28.9 | haven't been watching minutes max, we can get that very easily. It's only a minute or maybe a minute |
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