Goal Conscious vs. Growth Conscious
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Are you goal conscious or growth conscious? In this week’s episode, John Maxwell shares the difference between these two mindsets and how there is no finish line when it comes to leadership.
After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss John’s principles, explain how they apply these principles to their own leadership, and offer application to help you start the new year on the right foot.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Goal Conscious vs Growth Conscious Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Grow and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. The podcast |
| 0:20.3 | that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and whether |
| 0:27.0 | you're joining us on your favorite podcast app at MaxwellPodcast.com or perhaps you're |
| 0:33.3 | watching us on YouTube. We are excited to grow with you. This week we have an incredible |
| 0:39.7 | lesson from John that is designed to help you jumpstart this year. We believe that this |
| 0:46.6 | year has the potential to be our best one yet. So John is going to teach us the importance |
| 0:52.6 | of how to determine between goal consciousness and growth consciousness. Then my co-host |
| 0:58.6 | Chris Goady and I will be back and we'll dive deeper into John's lesson and offer some |
| 1:04.4 | application for you. If you would like to download our free bonus resource, these are |
| 1:10.2 | fill in the blank notes from John's lesson, go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash grow |
| 1:17.4 | and click the bonus resource button. Alright, that's it. Here we grow. Now here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:31.9 | I saw this definition many, many years ago and I believe it with all of my heart. Happiness |
| 1:37.0 | is growth. You show me a person that's growing. I'll show you happy person. You show me |
| 1:41.7 | an organization that's growing and I'll show you a happy organization. That's just the |
| 1:47.5 | fact of life. I thought I would take a moment and personalize this growth and just share |
| 1:52.7 | with you my process of growth in my lifetime. If you would go back before 1974, so if you |
| 2:00.9 | go back about 30 years ago and before that time, the best way to term my growth would be |
| 2:07.3 | called accidental growth. In other words, I didn't grow on purpose. I didn't even know |
| 2:12.8 | I was supposed to grow on purpose, but I loved people and I worked hard and so there were |
| 2:17.4 | things I learned. I kind of took it in snatches, but it was accidental type of growth. But |
| 2:23.8 | in 1974, when I sat down with Kurt Campmeier and the holiday in and he asked me if I had |
| 2:28.6 | a personal growth plan, which I didn't. I didn't even know I was supposed to have one. |
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