The Greatest Gap in Life
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode we’re talking about the greatest gap in life. That’s the gap between “I should” and “I did.” John Maxwell calls this the procrastination gap. Today John is going to talk to you about this gap and when good timing becomes procrastination. Then he’ll teach you the 3 P’s that stop procrastination.
Once John is done with his lesson, Mark is joined again by Chris Goede as they discuss the ways in which they apply these principles to their own leadership within the Maxwell Leadership organization.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is “The Greatest Gap in Life Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Gap and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
References:
Attitude 101 by John C. Maxwell (use code PODCAST at checkout for 15% off this week only)
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell
The Maxwell Leadership Assessment
Train your team with a 5 Levels of Leadership Workshop
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey leaders, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value |
| 0:22.6 | to leaders who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole on the CEO of Maxwell Leadership |
| 0:29.3 | and in today's episode we're going to talk about the greatest gap in life. That's the gap between |
| 0:36.3 | I should and I did. John calls that the procrastination gap. Today John is going to talk about this gap |
| 0:44.3 | and when good timing becomes procrastination. Then he'll teach us the three P's that stop procrastination. |
| 0:52.3 | Once John is done with his lesson, I'll be joined again with my co-host Chris Goady and we will discuss |
| 0:58.3 | ways in how to apply these principles to our leadership, to our life and to our organization. |
| 1:05.3 | Now as always we have provided you with a bonus resource which is a fill-in-the-blank worksheet |
| 1:11.3 | that accompanies John's lesson. If you would like to access that PDF, please visit |
| 1:17.3 | MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash gap and click the bonus resource button. And for those of you today |
| 1:24.3 | that would like to join us visually for the podcast, you want to see it and listen to it, |
| 1:30.3 | you can go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube. Now here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:42.3 | H. Jackson Brown who's done a lot of the what you call real small quote, portable books |
| 1:47.3 | said the biggest gap in the world is between I should and I did. |
| 1:53.3 | Success simply takes good ideas and puts them into action. What the free enterprise system really means |
| 2:00.3 | is that the more enterprising you are, the more free you are. What this country needs is less emphasis on free |
| 2:07.3 | and more on enterprise. In other words, we need more emphasis upon the doing process |
| 2:13.3 | which will obviously give us the freedom many years ago. I read a quote by I think it was then |
| 2:20.3 | the president of Atari, the game kind of president guy. And he said anyone who ever has taken a shower |
| 2:29.3 | has had an idea. And in that true, how we're in the shower, we're singing, we're so open up. |
| 2:34.3 | And all of a sudden we think of all these things. Yes, that would be really good. |
| 2:39.3 | He said the issue is not have you ever had an idea in the shower. How many of you had an idea in the shower before? |
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