The New Series: Maximum impact simulacast 2009 REVISITED

Welcome back blg crew. This season will prove to be one of our best ever, i just know. Call it faith, call it believing in a cause or just call it our mission.

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We begin the season with a nearly 8 week series reviewing John Maxwell's Maximum Impact Simulcast 2009 featuring such speakers at Tony Blair and Jack Nicklaus.

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First up, was Linda Kaplan Thaler talking about thinking small. Some really profound ideas in an age of "big is better" or is it? It didnt do so well for enron or the Lehman Brothers or the housing market. Kaplan's message is that even the smallest of conversations matter. Starbucks changes lives with their smailes and simple "face to fact" converstaions. Micheal Dell took the time to respond-have a digital conversation with over 200 emails each day, no matter how small. Even Jack Welch took the time to have "personal conversations" with some of his employees each week by writing them a note on something they did well that week.

The point is, what small things or small converstaions have you had this week or will have this week that will truly make a difference. Are they persnal-face to face smiles and converstaions or random txt msgs frm sm won u hdly now?

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I challenge you to think small. What small thing do you do that people will remember for a lifetime. Will they remember how you always smile at them? Will they remember how you always wrote wonderful notes? Will they remember you because you never feared an opportunity to share your faith?

What's your small gig?

This week: John Maxwell is the speaker. See you Friday at 6:30am.

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Leadership Gold.Prayer at 60

John Maxwell gave this prayer at the age of 60 after playing many plays on the business field and the non profit field:

"Lord, as i grow older, i think i want to be know as...

Thoughtful, rather than gifted,
Loving, verses quick or bright,
Gentle, over being powerful,
A listener, more than a great communicator,
Available, rather than a hard worker,
Sacrificial, instead of successful,
Reliable, not famous,
Content, more than driven,
Self-Controlled, rather than exiting,
Generous, instead of rich, and
Compassionate, more than competent.

Life wont let you progress without a price."

What a prayer. How many of these are you the rather than the first? Pick three. For me - Thoughtful-Self-controlled and Generous are my three that i would like to be better known for at 60.

We have reached our final session on Friday. I wonder if any of you have learned anything over the past several weeks.

• Have you changed anything?
  
• Have you grown?


• Have you journaled?
  

Will you remember anything after 48 hours of your final session other than that you were there. Studies suggest that you WONT! unless you write 2 or three things down that your really want to take away from these 26 lessons.

Here's one of mine:

1. Lesson 9-To see how the leader is doing, look at the people.

I would rather be Favre or Manning than TO-Doing my best to help my teammates rather than tear them down. Always taking responsiblity for my actions as well taking accountabity and ownership for my team's actions regardless of who's at fault.

Did you learn? See you Friday.

leadership Gold.L17-19

Are you a connector? Chances are your wife, sister or female significant other is better at it, or is she? How do guys connect verses women? Blog back.

Leadership Lesson 19 requires that we be Connectors not just climbers. Trouble is most of our training has been to climb, to win, to defeat everyone around us. Then and only then do we succeed.

Is this true? What does the bible say?

Maxwell says that connectors focus on relationships but climbers focus on position. What are you focused on? How about your family? Are you relying on your position as Dad - husband verses the relationship with your wife and kids?

Let me take you back to James 1: "Consider it pure joy my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,3 becuause you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and ocmplete, not lacking anything."

Consider it pure joy.... Are you kidding? Pure joy when we face trials? That is a tough task. What is pure joy for you? Winning? Be honest, do you have true joy when you end up connecting with someone or when you beat someone? God's word never said it would be easy but it will be rewarding.

I challenge you all to research and journal this idea of connecting with others and really think to what true joy is and should be to you.