Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders

who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and I'm the CEO of Maxwell Leadership.

Today we're talking about motivation. Leaders who are skilled at motivating their people,

they have a higher employee retention. In fact, they see more success in their businesses and

they have teams that believe in their vision. That's why John Maxwell today is going to share three

things you need to embrace to become a leader who motivates. After John's lesson, I and my co-host

Tracy Moral will discuss how we use these principles to motivate our team, to challenge our team

to bigger, better and brighter. To download this episode, there's a bonus resource you can go to

MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash motivate it. This resource is a free fill in the blank PDF that

accompanies John's lesson and makes it easier for you to capture notes. Lastly, if you would like

to watch this episode on YouTube, please go to MaxwellLeadership.com forward slash YouTube.

Be sure to leave us a comment, let us know how we helped you, let us know how we can improve.

That's it for now. Let's join John Maxwell.

Let me ask you a question. Do you remember the first time in your life that you were motivated?

I mean, go back. Go back a while. Now, I know I was motivated before this, but I'm going to go back,

if you'll let me for a moment, and share with you the first experience that I can remember being

motivated. I'm sure there were others before then, but this one was the one that really

helps me to understand the power of motivation. It's when I was in the fourth grade,

and I went to my first high school basketball game. I never been to a basketball game before.

The band was playing, and they were doing all the warm-ups. But what motivated me that evening

is all of a sudden, right before the start of the game, they turned all the lights off.

And then they put a spotlight down on the starting five, and with a drum in the background,

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