Hey everybody, this is Richard Chansey. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. In this episode, we're giving you a preview of John's online course, the 15 Laws of Growth.

You're about to hear the first module from that course on the Law of Intentionality.

As always, we want to give you a free resource to help you grow as a leader and to impact the leaders around you.

So this week, instead of a fill in the blank worksheet, we're giving you a full video to this lesson.

All you need to do is visit maxwapodcast.com, forward slash intention, and click the bonus resource button.

We've also got a special deal on John's online course, just for our podcast listeners. So be sure to stay for the second half of this episode.

We're Mark Colinay, deep dive into John's lesson, and we'll share that deal with you. Now, here's Dr. John C. Maxwell.

I'm delighted today to talk to you about some of the laws of leadership. And the first one I want to talk to you about is truly the first one I should talk to you about.

Now, there are 15 of them, but you have to understand there's one that I think is foundational for the other 14.

Not more important, but foundational, and that's the Law of Intentionality. And that's where we're going to begin today.

The Law of Intentionality just basically says, growth is the only guarantee that tomorrow is going to get better.

Oh, isn't that good?

If you're going to grow, and if I'm going to grow, we're going to grow intentionally.

Now, I'm talking to leaders today. I love talking to people that lead many people.

And to be honest with you, if I could just literally come off the stage and I could get real close to you, and we could have kind of like a one-on-one conversation.

There are two questions that I would ask you, and the two questions I'm about to ask you, will really determine how successful you're going to be in this business.

Without any question, these are the two questions. It's not like there's three or there's four or there's seven. There's two.

Okay? Just trust me on this. I'm an old man. I know this. I've been around the block a few times.

And there are two questions that if you're going to answer in a positive way about yourself, you're going to be very successful.

And if you really cannot answer that in a positive way, to be honest with you, you're not going to be near successful as you would like to be.

The first question is very simple. What are you doing to develop yourself?

And if you'd say, bye, gosh, John, I'll tell you right now, I'm doing a lot to develop myself. I mean, I've got a personal growth plan, and I'm intentional in this, and I'm doing this on a daily deal.

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