John C Maxwell - The Rewards of Being Intentional (1)
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please welcome leadership expert Mike
Cartman
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morning it's great to be here - bye -
aren't you glad you're part of IT life I
mean I've been sitting here listening to
all of your wonderful products and the
people that you have that are just kind
of explaining them and the testimonies
and you've got such good leadership I'm
just sort of just so pleased to be here
with you and share with you today and
we're gonna we're just gonna we're just
gonna talk okay I um I have something
really want to share with you and I
talked to you last night briefly or some
other that were the the top 100 dinner
about intensive living and I just kind
of very excited about the time in half
because I think that the time we have to
be of one of those kind of moments were
where you just catch it and it just
begins to beautifully wonderfully maybe
even incremented it could change your
life so what's in look at the person to
your seat on your side and share with
them say to them take good notes because
this could change your life would you
tell them that
in fact the person you said that to is
thank God you do need him up any higher
than house or said about scoops it gets
this is just what's why you just get up
to be in a place like this you look
great three someone they have places
there's no one's going I want you to
take notes and because there will be
some good takeaways for you would people
would people come to Venice and I'd love
them you know have lunch with you I
would love to you know have a narrative
attitude and and when I think about
people within getting but them and being
able to maybe share something with the
violence ask myself both if I only if I
wouldn't doing I had a now now have to
spend with you and I know I've only got
one shot and could only say one thing
and I could only be positive one thing
in your life now that I didn't ask
myself the question what would I do with
them and what would I say and what I
want to share with you today is
something
just by thinking it's that if we only
had an hour now to have to spend
together basically that this is what
what I want to say to you and so let's
get rid of rock'n'roll because I don't
want to waste any time I want to make
every moment count for you I want to I
would add as much value as I can and I
just love love and imperative thanks for
having me here and I would have a one
more if they're gonna be able to be with
you tomorrow morning we're having a
volunteer worship service space service
told me makes it well I'm not a person
think that I'm gonna church I don't care
can I tell you something you you want to
be here but because I'm gonna give you
success principles that will change your
life because whatever one needs to
understand it is everything I teach
about the leadership really comes out of
the Bible
everything about Melinda about
leadership and anything I teach you
today the attempt said without where did
you learn that like I could meet that
take you to a place them in the Bible
that teaches that principle and and so
I'm just gonna give you all kind of
amazing good success stuff in our faith
service tomorrow
so don't you know what a minutes you
know one of this and I know it's
voluntary so what you need to do is you
call your friend to make sure they're
out of bed okay and
we'll have a great time you'll be glad
you did that okay now it's what I would
have sitting down and we're fewer or the
other side of this table that and you
said job if you just give me one word of
advice what would it be I would say to
you that I would want you to live it
every day with great intentionality that
I would want you to have what I would
call it intentional why now the Texel
life is deliberate consistent and move
what I mean by deliberate is the fact
that it's his caught out if you look at
your day and you're not an accident you
are thinking through your day your
deliberate and what you're going to do
who you're going to meet it's a
deliberate lifestyle it's a consistent
one the fact that you do it every day
you're not intentional for a moment
they're never living things place up to
everybody's food once in a while the
challenge is to get good all the time
and I read people all the time and I
mean they just have their moment and I
tell them to enjoy it because they
probably won't see it again and they
never understood the value of
consistency and some of the intentional
life is it I'm not talking about that
unintentional moment or an attentional
day are you going to intentionally week
or even intentionally I talked about how
that intensified as I as I watch the
different products you had
instead of programs that you have here
and I listen to you the excitement you
know clap you to the Tyrian and how what
it will is have this new product and
it's all good stuff that happens in your
ID like as I watch that I realize that
that your success and those are going to
go to the Gaylord and and for where
thousands Fort Worth in March or dextry
whenever when I'd like to call this the
thing I understand very carefully is and
very quickly is the fact that that
you're the ones that are gonna be
successful with tidy life are not the
ones that are just you just get excited
now which would be excited but with
they're the ones who who three months
six months eight months nine months are
consistently doing the right thing every
day that that's gonna be the secret of
anybody's success is not what you do for
the next week or to do the next month
did you go home and draw exciting but
but intentional life is woman is well
thought out it's delivery it's one that
is consistent it's continued and it's
one that is will if you make a choice in
your life and what I love about what I'm
going to share with you is that you can
do this because this is not based on
your talent this is not based on any
kind of opportunity that you have it is
it makes the poem of kind of a
background you've got it does say
something something think it's based on
one thing is based on your choice and
choice is powerful and you have within
your own power today the ability to make
a choice to live an intentional life
which I will promise you will give you
the very best life possible my father's
still alive
I mean 94 I know of every is amazing
still works and
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and without this I start up times 25
years as a pastor okay so tonight I
graduated from college two weeks later
married Margaret then two weeks later I
would I was going to my first
contribution and I set down my father
and I said dad what kind of advice do
you have for me and what about would be
successful and he said John the advice I
have for you is is to live intentionally
and I want you to do three things I want
you every day and three things
intentionally with people I want you to
then what I want you to value me every
person that comes into your congregation
valued and greatly value over verse that
doesn't just value people number to
believe in them this is most people
don't believe with themselves and
they're looking for somebody to believe
in them so value them believe with them
and number three he said unconditionally
love he said if you'll do those three
things I will promise you that you'll
always have packed out audiences to
speak to how right he was
how true he was and everything that I
did ever and every server that I taught
every every everything every encounter
every issue that I had with people I
always heard intentionally everyday I
said okay to myself I said that if I
value you I believe in you and I had
conditionally love you what my dad was
doing is he was helping we had a very
young age 22 to begin to live what I
call it intentional life one that is one
that is deliberate consistent and move I
was having lunch one day with John Carr
the Colorado River
stop Benitez read some great things on
unchanged how how to make change
successful in any person's life in
companies that are he's a Harvard
problem and we were having month one day
and he said something to me that was
that was this very insight we said John
he said most people they don't lead
their life they accept their life and
the moment that he said that I thought
how true that is and a person that leads
their life which is the rare exception
is very intentional they're delivering
they're consistent and their will and a
person that accepts their life their
unintentional and there's the world of
difference between those two and what I
discovered is that ninety percent 90
plus percent I'm certain ninety percent
of people live basically lies and accept
say they accept what comes to them they
they live unintentional lives and I know
that because when went out when I was in
my middle twenties and I had a friend
talked to me about personal growth and
say that I had that I had to have a
growth plan for my life I went for the
next six most of my friends I mean I'm
talking about kind of 250 300 frames I
mean over the next six months when I was
their best friend and I would look at
myself ask you a question do you have a
plan for growth for your life because
you see that day when he said to me that
I needed to have a plan Ruth well like
he said two things didn't wanted me to
grow but he said second thing I needed
to have a plan right I need to be
intentional and when I asked my friends
do you know
like if I ask 250 other my doesn't
say that's not one of them and what
happened is is I can ask you that
question what would happen to me was
like begin to understand that most
people live their life out intention
that that they're not intention that
they're not delivering they're not
consistent and they're not moving and
I'm here to tell you that what I'm about
to share with you has possibilities of
incredibly changing their life and what
excite me about it is it's it's doable
for every one of your group every one of
