The Price Tag of Leadership (Part 1)

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

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🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this new series, John Maxwell discusses the price tag of leadership. If you’re familiar with John at all, you’ve likely heard him say, “Everything worthwhile is uphill––all the way.” That means there is always a cost associated with leadership and success. The hard truth is that the cost is self-discipline.

As John says, the hardest person to lead is yourself. But self-discipline makes all the difference. In part one of this series, John walks through the first three of five truths about self-discipline so you can see what makes it the biggest gamechanger in your own leadership.

After John’s lesson, Mark Cole (CEO of The John Maxwell Enterprise) and Richard Chancy consider the role that discipline plays when leaders face criticism. Then they share how self-discipline determines whether your habits serve you or whether you serve your habits.

Our BONUS resource for this series is The Price Tag of Leadership Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/PriceTag and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

This series comes from a portion of John’s Developing the Leader Within You online course. Listen through to the end to hear an exclusive offer on the course for our podcast listeners!

References:

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell

Today Matters by John C. Maxwell

Leadershift by John C. Maxwell

The John Maxwell Online Store

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Richard Chansey. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Today, we're
0:10.8	going to be talking about the price tag of leadership. Now, this is a two-part series.
0:15.7	So you're going to want to make sure you catch both of them. Today, you're going to hear
0:18.7	part one. Part two will be available next week. If you want to get the notes for these
0:23.5	two sessions, you can find those at MaxwellPodcast.com, for slash price tag, and just click on the
0:29.6	bonus resource button and download the notes. Now, here's Dr. John C. Maxwell.
0:40.4	This lesson has to deal with the price tag of leadership, which is self-discipline. When people
0:48.9	ask me and they do in Q&A all the time, John, what is your greatest leadership challenge? I always
0:53.9	give them the same answer. My greatest leadership challenge is leading me. That's my biggest problem.
1:03.4	My biggest leadership problem is John Maxwell. Yeah, leading me. See, it's much easier to lead you.
1:11.3	My gosh, I'm teaching you these lessons on developing the leader with you. It's so easy to lay out
1:15.8	these thoughts, these ideas, keeping these steps to do it. It's so good. And then when I'm done,
1:21.4	I leave you. It's just wonderful. Good luck. See, it's easier to teach what I know
1:30.6	than is to live what I know. Teaching is easy. Living it? It's more difficult.
1:41.4	And that's where self-discipline comes into play. Because what I want you to know, what I want
1:49.3	to know, what I want you to know, is that everything worthwhile is uphill. Everything.
2:00.2	There is nothing in your life. There is nothing in my life that's worthwhile, that's quick and easy.
2:09.6	It's all uphill. You have to fight for it every day. You have to climb for it every day.
2:14.8	It doesn't come to you. It's not in three easy packages and it's not the cure to overnight success.
2:24.1	It's like one guy said, all my life, I've worked hard at being an overnight success.
2:28.6	Everything worthwhile is uphill. Now, the problem is we have downhill habits.
2:37.8	Now, if you have downhill habits and you have uphill hopes, you're in trouble.
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