The Portrait of a Strong Family (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re talking about family relationships. What makes a strong family? And, what should a leader’s family life look like? In part 1, John discusses the importance of expressing appreciation for each other and structuring your schedule by making family time your priority.
Jason Brooks (Content Director of John Maxwell Enterprise) makes his debut on the podcast by guest hosting along with Mark Cole. Both Mark and Jason share the intentional practices they implement in order to keep their families strong, close, and growing together.
Our BONUS resource for this series is The Strong Family Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/family and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
References:
The Mentor’s Guide to Relationships (download the Bonus Resource for coupon code)
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Maxxel Leadership Podcast. My name is Mark Cole. I've been writing |
| 0:08.3 | Shotgun with John for 19 years and John is starting a new series, a two-part series on |
| 0:14.5 | the portrait of a strong family. I can tell you I've traveled with him, I know his family |
| 0:19.5 | is important. You are going to enjoy the teaching. I hope you'll stay past the teaching and |
| 0:25.5 | let myself and my guest co-host Jason Brooks talk to you a little bit about how we apply |
| 0:34.0 | portrait of a strong family to our lives and to our business. So if you would like to download |
| 0:40.1 | notes to today's lesson, you can go to maxwelpodcast.com forward slash family and click the bonus resource |
| 0:49.0 | button. As always, I want to challenge you, download this podcast but also subscribe. It will make |
| 0:56.5 | you better. So get ready. Here it is, part one of the new series, portrait of a strong family. Enjoy. |
| 1:11.0 | Probably the thing that people write in asking me to talk about more than anything else. I can't |
| 1:16.9 | think of anything that is going to make or break us more than our family as far as our relationships |
| 1:23.5 | not only with them but with other people. And I think it's a foundation perhaps that I have too |
| 1:28.7 | long neglected. So I'm going to talk about it today. If somebody walked into my life personally and |
| 1:33.8 | said John in what area, if you could choose any area to be successful, I mean, if you can think of |
| 1:39.7 | your own life, your own health, your own career, your family, if anybody would walk into me and ask |
| 1:44.8 | me what area would I want to be most successful in? I can tell you hands down no question about |
| 1:50.1 | if I could only have one area to be successful in and could choose nothing else, it would be my |
| 1:54.4 | family. No doubt about it. And then if somebody walked into me and asked me another question, that is |
| 1:58.6 | what area of my life do I fear failure the most? I would tell them very same thing, family. I fear |
| 2:05.8 | failure more for my own family and for my kids than to do for anything else. And I don't want to make |
| 2:11.6 | that sound negative. But I pray more about that area. Oh God, help me to be a right kind of a |
| 2:15.4 | husband. Help me to be the right kind of a dad. Help me to help my kids to make right kinds of |
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