Do You Have What It Takes (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
So, you’re starting something new? I bet one big question rolling around in your mind is, “Do I have what it takes?” This week, John C. Maxwell, Mark Cole, and Traci Morrow start a new two-part series on questions leaders can ask themselves to know if they have what it takes to begin a new venture. Following John’s lesson, Mark and Traci discuss how to apply what you’ve learned to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
- Passion gives the vision energy. Vision gives passion direction.
- Stress is the gap between the demands placed on us and our ability to meet those demands.
- Many times, action is not the riskiest path. The riskiest path is inaction.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Do You Have What It Takes Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/WhatItTakes and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. We're back again with another episode of the Maxwell Leadership |
| 0:25.7 | Podcast with John Maxwell and I just want to tell you again we're passionate |
| 0:31.1 | about adding value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:35.0 | Today we're beginning a two-part series where John Maxwell gives us questions to think through before starting a new venture in our |
| 0:46.0 | organization or perhaps even in our leadership. I'll be back with Tracy Morrow |
| 0:51.5 | after the lesson to sit down and have a conversation about how we can apply John's lesson to our life and to our leadership. |
| 1:01.0 | If you would like to watch this episode on YouTube or download our free bonus resource for the episode, |
| 1:07.0 | visit Maxwell Podcast.com forward slash what it takes. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, grab a pen, grab some paper. |
| 1:16.0 | Let's get ready. |
| 1:17.0 | Here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:21.0 | Starting a new venture is not easy and successful entrepreneurs have a lot of common |
| 1:26.4 | personality traits. So we're going to give you a yes-no quiz to see how you measure |
| 1:31.6 | up. In other words, we're going to see how much |
| 1:33.8 | entrepreneurial potential you have in your life to start a new venture. Do you |
| 1:38.8 | have what it takes? Okay? Boy, that's kind of a challenging question. Come on, look at me, do you have what it takes? |
| 1:44.0 | Come on, show me your stuff. Let me see if you have what it takes. Question number one, are you |
| 1:50.4 | passionate about your venture? |
| 1:54.9 | Just a great question. |
| 1:57.0 | If you're going to start something, |
| 1:59.5 | it doesn't start out there, it starts in here. |
| 2:02.4 | Let me ask you a question. How many people do you know that? start out there, it starts in here. |
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