Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that is designed, it's dedicated to you, to leaders where we can add value, knowing that you will multiply value to others.

I'm Mark Cole, I'm the CEO of Maxwell Leadership, and today we're going to talk about three words that will enhance your ability to be a continual learner.

As John Maxwell often says, success is not a destination, it's a journey.

That means that leaders never arrive, we're on an infinite journey together.

We never cross the finish line because we're continually learning to grow beyond who we were yesterday and arrive at something greater tomorrow.

John has some helpful reminders in this lesson about practices we can put into place, we can put it in our lives to enhance our day-to-day journey of growth.

After John's lesson, I'll be joined today by my co-host Tracy Morrow as we dive into John's lesson and offer practical application to help you apply this lesson to your life and to your leadership.

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Okay, so here we go. Here is John Maxwell helping you to continue growing and improving yourself.

Let me give you three words that will enhance continual learning in your life.

The first word is preparation.

If you're going to really grow and learn, you've got to do a lot of preparation.

Literally, Inverten said, few people think more than two or three times a year.

I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.

I love that statement. Now, what does preparation mean?

Preparation means asking yourself things such as, what are my potential learning moments today?

I want to stop here for a moment, have a moment of time out. I want to encourage you to get into a habit that I've done for so many years that I take it for granted because it's habitual with me, but it may not be with you.

What I'm just saying to you is very key. Remember I'm saying one of the three words in growing and learning is the word preparation.

And I'm saying, what you have to do is you've got to ask yourself, what are my learning moments?

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