Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John Maxwell shares five thoughts on how to make your future bigger than your past. Then, Traci Morrow joins Mark Cole to talk about helpful ways you can apply this lesson to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
- Daily we are either repairing or preparing
- The future can be written
- People either face the future with apprehension or anticipation
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Make You Future Bigger Than Your Past Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/BiggerThan and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
References:
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Intentional Living by John C. Maxwell
Relevant Episode: Living Life Usefully
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders |
| 0:23.5 | who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and today John Maxwell is going to share |
| 0:29.5 | five thoughts on how to make your future bigger than your past. John often says that the day that his |
| 0:37.8 | current book is not his best book is the day he's going to stop writing. I've heard leaders say |
| 0:44.1 | that the day that their future vision or their current vision about the future is less exciting |
| 0:50.5 | than their past accomplishments is the day they're going to stop leading. So today my challenge to |
| 0:56.7 | you as we listen to this podcast is to make your future bigger than your past. Now after John's lesson, |
| 1:03.3 | Tracy Morrell will join me to talk about helpful ways you can apply this lesson to your life and |
| 1:10.0 | leadership. If you would like to watch this episode on YouTube please go to Maxwell Podcasts.com |
| 1:16.5 | forward slash YouTube. And if you'd like to download the free worksheet that accompanies John's |
| 1:23.1 | lesson visit Maxwell Podcasts.com forward slash bigger than and click the bonus resource button. |
| 1:33.0 | That's all for now. Here is John. Let's make the future better. |
| 1:38.6 | Always make your future bigger than your past. That's a wonderful lifetime |
| 1:49.4 | growth law. Always make your future bigger than your past. A bigger future is essential for |
| 1:56.3 | lifetime growth. The past is useful because it is rich with experiences that are worth thinking |
| 2:02.2 | about in new ways and all of these valuable experiences can become raw material for creating an |
| 2:07.2 | even bigger future. Approach your past with this attitude. Use your past to continually create a |
| 2:13.4 | bigger future and you will separate yourself from situations, relationships and activities that |
| 2:19.6 | can trap you there. So let me give you some thoughts about the future just things that I embrace myself. |
| 2:29.6 | Number one, the best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. |
| 2:38.0 | That's what I love about the future. You don't have to handle a month at a time or a year at a time. |
| 2:46.8 | You handle it one day at a time. In fact, the question is how do you prepare for the future? |
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