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Jun 2023
39m 40s

Living Life Usefully

JOHN MAXWELL
About this episode

John Maxwell teaches three factors that determine if you are living life usefully. After John’s lesson, Chris Goede joins Mark Cole to talk about helpful ways you can apply this lesson to your life and leadership.

Key takeaways from this lesson:

  • Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become
  • Over time, people come to share reciprocally, similar attitudes towards each other
  • “People say that we are all seeking the meaning of life ... I think that what we are really seeking is an experience of being alive.” -Joseph Campbell 

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Living Life Usefully Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Living and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

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