Hey, this is Richard Chansey. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. We've got

an incredible two-part series that starts today called the 10 Maxums for Motivation.

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and the next one and all the future John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Now here's Dr. John

Chansey Maxwell discussing the 10 Maxums for Motivation.

Today I want to talk to you about motivation. In fact, I want to give you 10 motivation

maxims. A maxim is a general truth, a fundamental principle, a rule of conduct. What I want to

do today is try to lay out some general principles on how you and I as leaders can be more

effective in motivating the people that we oversee and that we have responsibility for. Now

I will admit that of all the lessons I've ever done, this is probably about the easiest one,

because this is really out of my life and it's very, you know, it's just as easy for me to sit

down and begin to begin to write real quickly. But there are some principles here that are really

going to help us. And I enjoy going through them and kind of looking at myself and asking myself

some key questions about how I motivate other people and how I'm personally motivated. And I

think there'll be some wonderful things come out of it. I'm excited about sharing that with you.

There are basically three types of motivators. The first type is what I call the sensational

motivator. And this type of a motivator, he does his motivation based on conditions. A

sensational motivator will basically look at conditions and seize the opportunity when the

emotions are running high. He or she is the type of person that reads well of the situation and

usually they are basically charismatic personality as far as motivators are concerned. And this type

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