How to Live with Purpose Every Day
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Your anchor, your North Star, your wings, and your why – in today’s episode, John is sharing a lesson that will help you find the foundation of all these things: your purpose. Discover practical steps and powerful insights for living every day with intention and discipline.
After John’s lesson, Mark Cole offers his perspective on how to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Finding your why gives you direction.
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You discover your purpose through your passion and your giftedness.
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Purpose puts steel in the backbone of discipline.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the How to Live with Purpose Every Day Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Purpose and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's episode on how to live with purpose every day. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, you've tuned in to the Maxwell Leadership podcast. |
| 0:17.3 | My name is Mark Cole. |
| 0:18.9 | And today, John is going to challenge us to be an everyday |
| 0:22.4 | purpose kind of a leader, an everyday purpose person that is passionate about intentionally |
| 0:31.2 | living the life that you want to live. So I'm so excited. I want to get you to John just |
| 0:35.9 | pretty quickly. When John is done, I'm going to come back. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm going to share with you some of the takeaways that I have from today's podcast and how I and you can put purpose into our life and therefore see great results from that intentionality. |
| 0:52.3 | If you would like to watch this episode on YouTube or even |
| 0:56.6 | download our special bonus resource, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash live |
| 1:03.8 | with purpose. Here's John. Grab your pen, grab your paper. Hey, grab your purpose. Let's be challenged to live and be an everyday purpose person. |
| 1:15.1 | Here's John. |
| 1:21.3 | Purpose is essential to a person's life. |
| 1:24.7 | It's the anchor that holds you during a storm. It's your North Star that |
| 1:30.4 | guide you when you're just absolutely pretty well confused or everybody around you is confused. |
| 1:37.5 | And I want to talk to you about what it means to know your purpose, to find it, and then to live it. |
| 1:49.0 | We're going to be talking about being what I call an everyday purpose person. I love that phrase. |
| 1:51.0 | Everyday purpose person is one that every day gets up and they live their life on purpose, |
| 1:58.0 | which means that they're going to make it count. |
| 2:00.0 | It means that they're going to get the highest return from that day. |
| 2:04.1 | And what's beautiful is that once we learn to be intentional with our life, |
| 2:08.7 | once we learn to find a purpose and then live our purpose, |
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