Hey, welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. You are joining us in part two of a transformational leader.

Really, transformational leadership is something that John has been talking about now for years, seven, eight years.

In fact, last week we just finished up the Book Tour of John's New Book, Change Your World. I hope you have that. Go to ChangeYourWorld.com if you don't.

We had just finished up this Book Tour and we went back in this podcast to a lesson John did several years ago. He started working on it in 2013, 2014.

And we wanted you to hear the beginning of transformational leadership as it began to form in John Maxwell's World. We believe that we have a mass movement of transformation that is beginning in the world right now.

And podcast listeners, here's the great news. You're a part of it. I want to invite you to do more than hear it.

I want to invite you to do more than repeat it. I want to invite you to do more than pass a link along. I want to invite you into the journey.

And the best way to invite you into the journey we believe is to hear the heart and the beginning of the vision.

That's why last week we did part one. This week you are hearing part two. Now as always, if you would like to download the show notes, fill in the blanks at JohnTeaches.

You can go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash transform. Don't forget, make sure you listen to part one. Make sure you consume part two. Make sure you join us at change your world.

Now, here is Dr. John C. Maxwell talking about transformational leadership.

Step number two, it stands on a cause. It's not enough just to want to make a difference.

We've got to want to make a difference doing something that makes a difference. Now, this is the external part of transformation.

The calling is the internal. It's who we are inside. And by the way, transformation always begins on the inside.

Transformation begins and works like this inside out. Top down. Small meaning. That's how transformation works. But it gets to the outside.

And I want to make a difference doing something that makes a difference. You see, once I begin to understand how transformation works, my purpose becomes bigger than me.

It's no longer, what can I do to fulfill my life? What can I do to make me happy? Now, what can I do to fulfill my calling?

What can I do to make sure that I become the person that I really want to become? And the question is not, do I make a difference?

Because everybody makes a difference to some level. Transformational leadership asks the question, what kind of a difference am I making in my life?

When I was in college, we had a teacher come and give a lecture that changed my life. He looked at us young leaders and he said there are three questions every leader ought to ask himself or herself.

And I wrote those three questions down. I was way too young. I was 19. I was way too young to know the significance of those questions in my life.

But I wrote them down because I felt that he gave me something that day. If I just wrote it down and I didn't let it slip out of my fingers and I didn't forget it, I thought there's going to be a day I'm going to understand these questions.

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