The Best Thing You Can Do for Yourself and Others
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Some of the best advice that John Maxwell has received throughout his leadership journey has been from his father, and today, he’s sharing that advice with you! In this episode, John is passing on some of the most transformative insights from his own mentor on success and adding value.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow discuss what stood out to them and give you practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
- Value people. Believe in people. Unconditionally love people.
- Be the first to help. Be the first to add value.
- Once you’ve tasted significance, success will never satisfy you.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Best Thing You Can Do for Yourself and for Others Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/BestThing and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends we're back with a brand new episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast and I'm truly excited to have you with |
| 0:16.1 | us today. |
| 0:17.1 | We're the podcast truly that is committed to adding value to leaders who will in |
| 0:22.0 | turn multiply value to others. My name is Mark |
| 0:25.5 | Cole and on today's episode John Maxwell is going to be sharing with us the best |
| 0:30.8 | advice he has ever received. |
| 0:34.0 | Now what you're going to hear in this podcast, |
| 0:36.0 | and I'll talk a little bit more about it after John's done talking, |
| 0:39.0 | but you're going to hear John's map of adding value to people. How he challenges us to think of ways to add |
| 0:47.0 | value to people. When I heard his lesson today and I just was listening to this |
| 0:52.2 | lesson before we got into the studio and I went, wow, it was that idea that started this podcast over 320 episodes ago. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, we started this podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | We said, John, we don't need any of your time. |
| 1:09.0 | We're going to start this podcast and I'm going to show you how you can add value and look at a new way to add value. |
| 1:17.0 | So five plus years ago, we started this journey, and now over 300 episodes. |
| 1:21.0 | It never gets old when I get to meet you podcast friends around the world. |
| 1:26.0 | Just last week, I was in Brazil and I met one of the top judges in all of Brazil he came up to me and he said Mark |
| 1:35.2 | Cole he walked right past John Maxwell he said Mark Cole I had to meet you |
| 1:39.4 | because I have now heard 300 episodes this morning on the way to this event I listen to my |
| 1:46.2 | 300th episode and you said X Y and Z and he told me what I said and he said it |
| 1:51.6 | changed my life and I went whoa that's a little |
| 1:54.1 | bit more value than I anticipated just yesterday I was on the phone with a financial |
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