Thank you to Lindsay Scarlatelli for sharing her notes from a recent road trip to attend "An Evening with John Maxwell" featuring Matthew Mitchell in Lexington, Kentucky.
Matthew Mitchell
Take your mind off the surface things and get your mind into substance
Who do you want to be?
The only way you become a leader is to pursue a path of personal excellence.
One of my personal goals this year has been to focus a lot on To Be goals versus To Do goals.
As I have focused on being a better person it is naturally helping me be a better leader.
John Maxwell
Success means different things to different people.
It is impossible TO BE successful without discovering your purpose.
When you discover why you were born, you will find your purpose.
Your Why is your purpose. Discover it--don't spend life lost.
Two paths to discovering your purpose
70% success rate: Discover your passion. Normally leads to your purpose.
Passion gives energy.
People talk about high energy and low energy people. There is no such thing. There are people with passion and people without passion.
Passion is the fuel that will take you where you want to go.
Passion is contagious.
Energy attracts energy.
No one has to motivate or encourage you. It is only work when you would rather be doing something else.
Caution: it is possible to be passionate at something you are not good at
100% Success Rate: Passion plus giftedness/ability/strengths
What do I do well?
What brings me great return?
Discover it and work on it. Work on your strengths and not on your weaknesses.
People don't pay for average. Average never changes a life or inspires anyone. If you work on your weaknesses you will on be average.
To be successful you have to get in the top 20%.
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