Principles that Guide Your Life
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What defines the world you create with your leadership? In this week's episode, John Maxwell reveals the ten guiding principles that have anchored his life and success for more than four decades!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson dive into real-life strategies that help you put John's principles to work in your own leadership journey.
Key takeaways:
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Your attitude is a daily choice that sets the ceiling for your potential.
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Personal growth always precedes professional advancement; who you are determines how far you can go.
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Helping others succeed opens doors for your own success and builds lasting, meaningful relationships.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Principles that Guide Your Life Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Principles and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the Maxwell Leadership podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | And I say welcome back because so many of you tune in week in and week out. |
| 0:15.1 | But there's some of you, this is the beginning of the year, beginning of February. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:20.0 | We're so glad you're here. You have made |
| 0:22.0 | our family complete for today. But tell somebody about the podcast because we want them to join us |
| 0:27.3 | on the next episode. Hey, if you've ever looked at somebody and wondered how they accomplished so much, |
| 0:35.6 | John Maxwell is going to give you insight today and how he is accomplished so much |
| 0:39.7 | with his ten principles that guides his life. Now, before we go there, one of his first things |
| 0:45.6 | that he talks about is his attitude determines his altitude. I'm sitting across right now |
| 0:51.6 | from Chris Robinson, Mr. Attitude. You truly have figured something out about attitude. And so even before I like to just ask your question, how's it going, that kind of stuff? But today I want to just go, how do you keep your attitude up? You are consistent with a good attitude. Yeah, I don't know what else to do. I mean, that's the only thing that I got is I've got a choice to choose the attitude that I have every single day. I can't choose the weather. I can't choose, you know, if you're going to like me today, not like me today. If the, you know, camera's going to work, not work. But what I can choose is how I respond. And that's all I got. And so for me, I've just got a disposition that is, hey, I'm going to |
| 1:29.7 | believe the best. I'm going to see the best and know that the best is going to work out over time. |
| 1:33.7 | That didn't happen. It did not happen overnight. That was something that has been built and |
| 1:39.4 | worked on year after year after year. So that's awesome. Attitude is everything. |
| 1:44.5 | Well, attitude is everything. |
| 1:46.2 | And John's going to teach that. |
| 1:47.6 | So grab a piece of paper. |
| 1:50.0 | John's going to give you 10 principles. |
| 1:51.9 | I wish today, he's going to teach for, I don't know, 10 minutes or so. |
| 1:56.3 | But I wish today that we could just have him teach 10 to 15 minutes on each principal, because I've |
| 2:01.9 | watched him live these principles out over the last 25 years, and they are the thing that |
| 2:08.7 | has guided his life. |
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