Why My Life is Compounding
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Last weekend we celebrated John Maxwell’s 75th birthday! As you can imagine, there was a lot to celebrate! So, we thought this week we would share a lesson with you from John about why his life has compounded (and continues to compound) into a story of great impact.
After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow join to discuss John’s lesson and offer some ways to apply these principles to your own life and leadership.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Why My Life if Compounding Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Compound and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast family, welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the |
| 0:19.6 | podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and |
| 0:26.4 | this has been a week. Last weekend we celebrated John Maxwell's 75th birthday. There was so much to |
| 0:37.6 | celebrate. Much of that is because of the impact John has made because of the way his life has |
| 0:45.6 | compounded. So we thought this week we would share a lesson with you from John about why his |
| 0:52.5 | life has compounded. And why it continues to compound. See this lesson is a lesson that John |
| 0:59.9 | gave to his organization some time ago. It's a lesson to where John is looking at the team that |
| 1:07.0 | has been on the journey with him and recognizes that yes his life and his influence is compounding |
| 1:14.4 | but it's compounding because of the people around him. I know this lesson will impact you and |
| 1:21.2 | challenge you to compound in your influence as well. Now after John's lesson my co-host Tracy |
| 1:28.0 | Morrill and I will be back and we'll discuss John's lesson and we'll offer some ways to apply |
| 1:34.4 | these principles to your own life and your leadership. Now as always we have a free fill in the |
| 1:41.1 | blank worksheet that we call our bonus resource. You would like to fill this out as you listen to |
| 1:47.5 | John please go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash compound. Click on the bonus resource button |
| 1:56.4 | and you will be able to follow along. Now here is the birthday boy himself John Maxwell. |
| 2:04.5 | Lindsay Jones said when you're over the hill that's when you pick up speed. I don't think I'm |
| 2:17.4 | picking up speed but the reason I want to do this lesson today is because I'm in a wonderful time |
| 2:23.7 | of my life. I'm in a compounding time of my life. So why is my life compounding? Number one attitude. |
| 2:34.8 | The secret of positive compounding is contributing more than consuming and the statement the success |
| 2:44.8 | of my day is determined by the seeds I sow not the harvest I reap that's the attitude I'm talking |
| 2:52.0 | about. The three L's of attitude is I've looked at my own number one leave the stuff behind. |
| 3:03.9 | I wish I had a half an hour to talk about that just leave stuff behind. Hey somebody criticizes you |
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