Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I'm Mark Cole and today again, I'm with my

co-host Jason Brooks. Jason serves as our director of content, director of publishing here in the

John Maxwell Enterprise and as you know and have come to love, he's been working with me the last few

weeks as a co-host. Hey, we've been working on how to start successfully. Last week, John gave us

two points. Start with yourself, start early. I don't know about you, but I've been waiting all

week to hear what else John has to say. So I'm glad you joined us today to download your notes,

go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash start. You'll be able to click the bonus resource button

and download the notes and be able to jump right in as John begins to talk about number three,

start small. So here he is, John Maxwell. The third start is start small. Start small.

Don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step.

Too many people hesitate in beginning because they can't comprehend the entire journey.

And what I'm saying to you is this goes back to how do you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.

I'm saying you understand the value of just starting small. People come to me and they have a dream

and they'll say, I have this dream. And I look at them and I ask them this question now. I'm

asking this question all the time because there are all kind of people have dreams. I'll say,

what is the daily thing that you do that's getting you closer to your dream?

In other words, I've got this dream. I want to have this or I want to be this by a certain agent.

I've got this on my refrigerator, whatever's I got this dream. I ask them, let me ask you a question.

What's the daily thing that you do today that's going to get you closer to that dream tomorrow?

Because what I have found is that it's not the dream that makes it for us. It's the process.

It's the day they think it's the starting small.

Hi, people come to me and say, how do you write so many books?

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