21 Jun 2019 · 8 min
John C. Maxwell explains that most people accept their lives instead of leading them. He defines intentional living as deliberate, consistent action based on your values, and shares how a blank-page book called The Greatest Story Ever Told made him realize he had to write his own story.
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Let me introduce you to today's guest. He is an incredible human being. His name is John C. Maxwell. He's a number one New York Times Best selling author, coach and speaker who has sold more than 25 million books in 50 languages. And in 2014 he was identified as the number one leader in business by the American Management association and the most influential leadership expert in the world by Business Insider and Inc. Magazine. He's also been voted the top Leadership Professional in the world on leadershipgurus.net for six consecutive years, he's trained more than 5 million leaders. In 2015, he reached the milestone of having trained leaders from every country in the world. He is the recipient of the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network and he speaks each year to Fortune 500 companies, presidents of nations and many of the world's top business leaders.
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Most People don't lead their life, they accept their.
We say that.
And because they. Most people don't leave their life, they accept their life. And if you lead your life, you're intentional. If you accept your life, you're letting someone else determine your life for you. And yet 99% of people get up every day and they say, well, I hope something good happens to me. I hope something wonderful is good, but they're not intentional. So I wrote the book to say, okay, here's what's beautiful. Every person could be intentional. And here's what I mean by that. If somebody said, john, I want to be. I really want to be successful. I want to be significant my life, and I really want to really want to make my life matter. What do I need? What's the quickest, easiest way to do that? I would just look at and say, you have to become intentional.
What is it?
What does it mean for you to be intentional?
It means that I do this on purpose. I choose to take action on what I already feel and know. You see, the greatest gap in life is the gap between knowing and doing. Most people don't lack knowledge of success. That keeps them from success. They just don't do it. And intentional living means I take my good intentions and I act them out. You know, the word intentional means. It means. It means deliberate. It means consistent. It means willful. I mean, deliberate means I do this on purpose. Consistent means I do it on purpose all the time. Willful means it's a choice I have made for myself. I've worked will this. And in the book I talk about, this is how. This is how you live an intentional life. And this is how you begin to add value to people. You know, those are. Let me tell you a story. And this is probably the most important thing I want to share because this is what happened to me, is why I wrote the book and what I want to happen to the readers of this book. I. I was in my 20s and my assistant shoot my secretary, but for Christmas, she gave me a book. And I unwrapped the book, and the title was the Greatest Story Ever Told. And I love to read. I said, boy, thank you. This is going to be a great book. I mean, my gosh, the greatest story Ever told. Are you kidding me? And I mean, before I even open the book, I'm already thinking, what's the greatest story told? Here we go. And I open the book, and much to my surprise, the pages are blank. And Eileen Beavers of the up in the corner of that first Blank page, wrote these words, John, and your life is before you fill these pages, kind deeds, matters of your heart, things that matter, live a life of significance. And I'm telling you, Louis, I said, okay, I got this. I'm not going to read my life. I'm going to write my life. I'm not going to be passive about this. I'm not going to. I'm not. Well, I'm not going to let somebody else write my story. I'm going to write my own story. And I literally took that book with the blank pages and I started writing just thoughts that I had. And it wasn't my first book, but it was really my. It was when I began to say, I'm going to become the author of my life. That totally changed me that day. I woke up and I said to myself, my life is going to be recorded. That is the question. The question is, am I going to control that life? Am I going to be intentional with that life so that it really matters? Am I going to make every day my masterpiece? So when I wrote this book, Intentional Living, I started off in the first chapter. I talk about everybody has a story. You have a story to a side of everybody has a story. That's not the question, do you have a story? The question is, is it the story that you really want for your life? The only way it's going to be the story you really want for your life is you don't have to write it. You can't let someone letting us write this story. And so I challenge people throughout the book. Go begin doing acts of significance, gifts and significances about others. So be intentional. Do something intentionally every day for others. Foreign.
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