Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Mark Cole here, excited to be with you for two parts on success.

But before we go any further, let me introduce you to Jason Brooks.

Jason loves that kind of introduction. Let me tell you what we're doing.

We're talking about for two weeks. We're talking about how to start successfully.

And let me tell you why. Here in North America, we are getting ready to start spring.

Spring is the season of beginnings. It's the season of growth. You'll start seeing green.

How many people in Snowland are ready for that? But here we are. We're getting ready to start the spring.

And we wanted to talk about starting successfully.

So it's two part. In fact, you can download the notes at Maxwell Podcast dot com forward slash start.

Click the bonus resource button and you'll be able to download the notes.

Now without further ado, let me introduce you to a very successful leader. Here's John.

Henry Ford said before anything else getting ready is the secret of success.

I remember doing a conference recently out west and we were doing a Q&A

and somebody asked me about the value of initiating the value of starting to kind of be a self starter.

And I defined starting or initiating. I said it's the great separator.

And I think it really is. It separates the doers from the do nots. It really separates the have some the have nots.

It separates the winners from the winters. It separates successful people from unsuccessful people.

Starting is essential, absolutely central for you and I to be successful.

It's not the last step, but it is the first step. How do you win? You've got to start.

Ben Franklin said this way to succeed. Jump as quickly at opportunities as you do a conclusion.

The book ends of success. Are starting and finishing the ability to begin to be a self initiator.

And the ability to close to be able to finish off. And both are very important.

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