Jim Johnson recounts advice he received from John Maxwell: that your future self will thank your current self for the discipline and routines you establish now. He frames this as motivation for investing in personal growth—improving skills in sales, marketing, leadership, and entrepreneurship—to move beyond a rookie stage and add value to his company.
One of the best things I ever got taught. John Maxwell shared with me. He goes, hey, man, your future self is going to thank your current self for the amount of discipline and routine that you put into your world. And so there were certain things that I had to get. I had to do a lot of personal growth side of things, learning how to be better at sales, be better at marketing, be better as a leader, be better as an entrepreneur. These things that I had to do to start to bring value to my company. If I don't know those things and I'm not good at those things, I'm kind of at rookie stage things. Think of it as like, hey, I'm just beginning. I'm starting to figure things out, and I've got to get this information.
