Hey, welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. We are committed to your growth and we're committed to your growth influencing others.

My name is Mark Cole and I will be joined by John Maxwell in this podcast and then I will be joined by Jason Brooks as we dissect and apply what John shares today.

Now over the next three weeks we're going to be sharing a unique and insightful lesson from John called the leaders greatest.

I've got to be honest with you on the front part of three parts of lessons from John's topic here that we could spend 10 weeks on this series.

It is an incredible, incredible amount of content and challenge you're going to get from the next three weeks of this podcast.

In fact, we believe that John's outline will show you what he believes as the greatest aspect in specific areas of a leader's life.

For instance today in part one, John's teaching will be talking about a leader's greatest victory, a leader's greatest asset, greatest weight, greatest discipline, and a leader's greatest handicap.

Each of these lessons will be packed with full thought-provoking insight that will help you on your leadership journey.

So be sure to download the bonus resource for this series at MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash leaders greatest.

That's leaders greatest, no apostrophe. You'll be able to download the resource there and learn with us.

Now here is John C. Maxwell.

I would like to talk about in the context of leadership some of the greatest things I think can happen to a leader.

So let's get rolling because we got a lot of stuff to cover.

Number one, let's go. The leaders greatest victory I think is victory over self.

What I'm giving you is very subjective. This is just my list. You follow me.

You may look at yourself and go through the list and do yours. In this way, boy, John could have done a better job if he had my answers.

Because there's not a right or wrong answer. What I'm giving you is my own subjective personal thinking.

But I think for me the greatest victory that I have, and I don't want to put that past tense.

I don't want to say the greatest victory I've had is victory over self because I have to fight this every day.

You follow me. It would almost come to conclusion if I said the greatest victory I've ever had is victory over self that I don't have to work on myself or I don't have to battle myself or I don't have to fight the temptations of self which is totally untrue.

But my greatest victory every day is victory over self.

And let me kind of contextualize that. Go to your notes.

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