Why Selflessness Makes You Magnetic | John Maxwell EP 595

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

John Maxwell believes that truly successful and influential people exude joy, see life as an opportunity to sow seeds of kindness, and focus their energy on adding value to others instead of being self-absorbed. He argues that while selfishness may be our natural tendency, making the intentional choice to uplift people around you takes conscious effort, transforms you into someone others cherish being with, and is ultimately the key to developing the charisma irresistible leaders share. Though helping others doesn't always yield immediate personal returns, Maxwell stresses that constantly cultivating goodwill inevitably compounds over time into an abundant harvest you can't help but reap. The most magnetic individuals simply recognize that the more we pour into each person we encounter, the more that joy flows right back into our own lives.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	Those that you've really taught and trained and you coach some of the greatest leaders in the world, business, sports, you know, all these different things,
0:20.0	what are the habits that make them irresistible in able to manifest and create more in their life?
0:28.0	Obviously the quality and the intention of service and helping others and giving is a big intention that they have
0:36.5	that it brings them joy but what would just say are those qualities that
0:39.5	just make them so that people want to follow them that people want to give them opportunities
0:43.4	and people like things fall in their lap what makes them so irresistible.
0:48.0	Having a joy about life and and about people I was having a conversation one time with a very successful person, very
0:58.0	funny person, a comedian, and he said, you know, it's hard to be funny if you don't have fun.
1:06.0	And that made perfect sense to me.
1:08.0	And when he said that, I hadn't thought about it until he told me,
1:11.0	but I thought that's exactly right. If you have fun in life and you have joy in life, you begin to be irresistible.
1:18.0	LMA Wilcox wrote that poem, what was it said?
1:20.5	There are two kinds of people on earth today, just two kinds of people,
1:23.6	the more I say, not the good and the bad, for it's well understood, the good or half bad, the
1:27.3	bad or half good. No, there's two kinds of people in life, I mean, is the people who lift and the people who lean.
1:35.0	If you are a plus in people's lives, they want to be around you.
1:40.0	I'm either a plus in people's lives or I'm a minus in people's lives. I'm either adding joy to them and
1:47.8	intentionally being kind and thing or else I'm you know some people are just they get up and they say who's going to make my day today you know it
1:55.8	Robert Louis Stephen said I love this court he said I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. And what he
2:06.4	understood was if you're just constantly sewing seeds, the harvest is
2:10.9	automatic. My gosh, I mean, I'm reaping a huge harvest that I'm looking at it. In fact, it's embarrassing to me and I look at it. I think how this all happened. Well, I know how it happened. I've I've sewn seeds all my life and so you know if I decide to be a plus for you
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