John C Maxwell - The Law of Intentionality (1)
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hi there i'm meredith sims and i get to
work every day with dr. johnson maxwell
developing his online events and classes
John and I are so glad you're joining us
today for this online event it's very
special kicking off the brand new year
this is the day you take charge the day
you take control of the direction of not
just this year but your entire life
you're here today to learn from John on
how you get it and let me tell you what
it is it can be a lot of things how you
get healthier get a better routine get
the job get the financial bonus get
things right with your family just get
it done
John's going to be honest with you today
about one thing growth doesn't just
happen it takes massive effort it takes
intention it takes work but you know
that this is your year you know it and
you're getting ready to go get it
I'm not going to hold you back much
longer other than to tell you that you
seriously don't want to cut out on this
event before it's over today John
wouldn't give you an opportunity to dig
deep and take charge of your growth this
year okay let's do this let's do the
work to make big gains and growth period
let's welcome to the stage dr. jazzy
Maxwell
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thank you Wow thank you very much
good morning hob I have good people
around me and they really allow me to do
what I can do well and where I am today
in my life is because of the people I
have around me good team so what you
want in a good team could develop people
around you and Meredith of course I am
mark my CEO right down here on the front
and and some of the key people of our
organization I want to thank them
because they've done all the work I'm
just kind of hanging with you I'm going
to teach you today we will learn a lot
we're going to grow gosh I know what's
happening I know what's going to happen
it's going to be good this is company
credit you know unite and say it's going
to be great so it's going to be good
there's a difference you see nothing is
great until a life has changed you do
understand that so you can have a good
conference you can't have a great
conference great is only what they do
with it after the conference you can
have a good book but the book becomes
great when it changes the life and so
many times we count our victories before
we have victories we count our victories
because we just look good when we walk
across the stage and everybody clapped
and everybody was happy and we thought
oh my gosh what a good conference this
ever everything escalates and gets
better when the people get better and if
the people don't get better it wasn't
that good and the people don't change if
people don't grow and the people if the
people just aren't reproducing it never
becomes great see leaders understand
greatness is begins with them and what
they teach and inspire their people to
be and do but the result of greatness is
in the proof of the people it's in the
people so if you say well I'm a great
leader
how many great leaders have you
reproduced so you're not a great leader
because you have followers you're a
great leader because you reproduce
leaders and so this is going to be a
huge day or I'm promising you're going
to fill pages of notes not just a page
or two that's I don't know who does that
but you don't feel pages in that church
you're going to have to you don't have
to go straight from here to a massage
therapist you know say just work the
hand to work the hand we just just
worked ahead but I've been taking a lot
of notes because one of the things we do
in the job max will come to it's a
reputation of mine to give you more than
you can handle
you with me Jericho to hear somebody
speaking you just kind of sit there for
a while and kind of hope for a miracle
you know me just say I know it will
sometimes get better and you know and if
you ever kind of sometimes kind of one
just walk up and see you know what
you're not very good let me give you a
couple thoughts here just say these
it'll help you it'll take you to a new
level huh
now the reason I say that is is we work
very hard you're here by invitation I
mean we do these things quite a bit
we've got to pack this thing up many
many times but we just said now just we
want the right people in the room when
we want the right people in the room
because that it reproduces itself so
I've worked hard or I'm going to do the
laws of growth I'm curious how many of
you have the book 15 those growth raise
your hand oh look at that yeah that's
good that's really good that's very good
you notice I didn't ask how many of you
had read it
I'm delighted today to talk to you about
some of the laws of leadership and the
first one I want to talk to you about is
truly the first one I should talk to you
about now there are 15 of them but you
have to understand there's one that I
think is foundational for the other 14
not more important but foundational and
that's the law of intentionality and
that's where we're going to begin today
the law of intentionality just basically
says growth is the only guarantee that
tomorrow is going to get better
oh and that good if you're going to grow
and if I'm going to grow we're going to
grow intentionally now I'm talking to
leaders today I love talking to the
people that lead many people and to be
honest with you if I could just
literally come off the station and I
could get real close to you and we could
have kind of like a one-on-one
conversation that there are two
questions that I would ask you and the
two questions I'm about to ask you will
really determine how successful you're
going to be in this business without any
question these are the two questions
it's not like there's three or there's
four or they're seven there's two okay
just trust me on this I'm an old man I
know this I've been around the block a
few times and there are two questions
that if you're going to answer in a
positive way about yourself you're going
to be very successful and if you really
cannot answer that in a positive way to
be honest with you you're not going to
be near successful as you would like to
be the first question is very simple
what are you doing to develop yourself
and if you say by gosh Jana I'll tell
you right now I'm doing a lot to develop
myself I I mean I've got a personal
growth plan and and I'm intentional in
this and I'm doing this on a daily deal
if you could say that to me that I'd say
hey we're in good shape here we're in
good shape because that's the key what
are you doing to develop yourself and by
the way the reason that's purse is not
because you want to be selfish it's kind
of like almost a selfish question person
as well why do I start with myself the
reason you start with yourself is
because you cannot give
what you do not have so you better start
with yourself because if you're leading
others and have nothing to give them
nothing to share with them nothing to
teach them then I can promise you you'll
never be what you want to be as a leader
and I can promise you that after 40
years of personal growth
the secret of any success if I've had
any success at all the secret of that
success has been personal growth in my
life and growth this has literally
placed me where I am so so what are you
doing to develop yourself it's a huge
question and the 15 laws of love the 15
laws of personal growth basically these
laws are all about developing yourself
in developing the second question what
are you doing to develop others you see
on the first question your foundational
for your future the second question is
all about compounding multiplication
that's where you build a huge business
when you know how to develop other
people and what we have to understand
about the law of intentionality is that
you cannot develop yourself and you
cannot develop your people unless you're
intentional and I discovered that in my
20s when I sat down and had breakfast
with a guy named Kirk camp Meier at the
Holiday Inn in Lancaster Ohio and he
asked me the question John do you have
do you have a plan for personal growth
in your life didn't have a plan didn't
know I was supposed to have a plan
nobody ever told me I'm supposed to have
a plan I graduated I was working hard
doing my very best to reach my potential
but nobody ever walked in my life until
Kirk can't Meier did and said John did
you have a plan for personal growth in
your life and I didn't have one I was
embarrassed I thought back then I had to
have answers and so I acted as if I did
and that didn't really work very long I
was kind of like a plane circling an
airfield trying to come in for a landing
family I just shut up and landed that
plane it looked at me and I'll never
forget it you don't have a plan do you
and I said no I don't have a plan then
he said to me John growth is not
automatic if you're going to have to
grow you're gonna have to grow on
purpose that day my life was changed
what Kurt was saying is if you're going
to grow you have to be intentional I
mean it's it starts it starts with me so
so look at the person you're seated
beside and just say then this will this
will kind of be like a get-acquainted
time with them just look at him and say
you really need to improve go ahead and
tell me you really
now wasn't that fun what that fight into
isn't fun just like somebody said you
know what you really need to improve
it's just I mean it's just it just rolls
naturally off the tongue now look right
back at them and say I need to improve
now you said that with a lot less
enthusiasm I mean did you hear that when
I said tell the other person easier I
mean it was loud you need to improve
yeah well yeah I need to improve I think
now the problem is we have what I call
growth gaps the reason that we're not
intentional in our growing is they're
just some gaps that that keep us from
from getting to where we need to go and
I'm going to give you about a half a
dozen I'm really quickly the first one
is the assumption gap and the assumption
gap just basically says or is I assume
