Your Road Map For Sucess

John C. Maxwell

Misconceptions about success
Success = Wealth/Happiness/Possesions/Power/Achievement

Success is a journey
Success is
knowing your purpose in life
growing to reach your maximum potential and
sowing seeds that benefit others

Chapter 2: Where Would I Like To Go
You need to identify and sail toward your destination, you need to discover your dream

The Power of a Dream
1) a dream give us direction
2) a dream increase our potential
3) a dream helps us prioritize
4) a dream adds value to our work
5) a dream predicts our future

Stages for developing a dream
1) Believe in your ability to succeed
2) Get rid of your pride
3) Cultivate constructive discontent
4) Escape from habit
5) Balance creativity with character

Chapter 3: How Far Can I Go
Your attitude determines your altitude
How you think affects your approach to the success journey in a powerful way

7 signs of a great attitude
1) Believe in self
2) Willingness to see the best in others
3) Ability to see opportunity everywhere
4) Focus on solution no problem
5) Desire to give
6) Persistence
7) Responsibility for their lives

Top tips for getting your attitude in tip-top shape
1) Claim responsibilities, not right
2) Associate with positive people
3) Make the present moment your happiest
4) Find ways to relieve stress
5) Don't take yourself too seriously
6) Take action to change your attitude

Chapter 4: How Do I Get There From Here?
Plan ahead and know where you're going, you can successfully make the journey and you can do it in good time and enjoy the trip along the way

Goals create a route for success
1) Goals draw out your sense of purpose
2) Goals give you "Go"
3) Goals show you what to do
4) Goals get your focus on improvement, not activity
5) Goals create mile markers of process

Creating your own road map
1) Recognize your dream
2) Observe your starting place
3) Articulate a statement of purpose
4) Define your goals (written, personal, specific, achievable, measurable, time-sensitive)
5) Move into action
6) Adjust your plans
7) Point to success and celebrate

Chapter 5: Growing To Your Maximum Potential
Growth is change
Growth is a choice
Growth is a decision that can really make a difference

Ten principles that help you develop into a person dedicated to personal growth
1) Choose a life of growth - continual growth and improve
2) Start growing today
 - Growth is not automatic (you can be young only once, but you can be immature indefinitely)

 - Growth today will provide a better tomorrow
 - Growth is your responsibility
3) Be teachable
4) Focus on self-development, not self-fullfilement
5) Never stay satisfied with current accomplishments
6) Be a continual learner
7) Concentrate on a few major themes
8) Develop a plan for growth
9) Pay the price
10) Find a way to apply what you learn

Chapter 6:How Do I Handle The Detours?
Keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
The two greatest detours: Fear and Failure
Face your fear
1) Discover the foundation of fear
2) Admit your fear
3) Accept fear as the price of progress
4) Develop a burning desire
5) Focus on things you can control
6) Put some wins under your belt
7) Feed your faith, not your fear

How to Fail Forward
1) Appreciate the value of failure
2) Don't take failure personality - "I have failed" / vs "I am a failure" x
3) Let failure redirect you
4) Keep sense of humor
5) Ask why, not who
6) Make failure a learning experience
7) Don't let failure keep you down
8) Use failure as a gauge for growth
9) See the big picture
10) Don't give up

Chapter 7:Are We There Yet?
Significant trade-offs to keep moving to a higher level during the success journey:-
1) Achievement over affirmation (affirmation from others is fickle and fleeting)
2) Excellence over acceptability (excellence is always a choice)
 - to achieve excellence :-
   a) pay attention to details
   b) seek continual improvement
  c) practice self-discipline
  d) maintain high personal standard
3) Personal growth over immediate pleasure
4) Future potential over financial gain (money ofthen brings options, but it doesn't necessarily add value to your life)
5) A narrow focus over scattered interests
6) Significance over security

The secret to continually trading up to increase your persistence level
1) Develop character
2) Focus on the big picture (your goal is to finished the race- to do the best you're capable of doing)
3) Get rid of excuses
4) Understand the odds
5) Stay hungry

Chapter 8: Is it a family trip?
step to building a strong family
1) Express appreciation for each other
2) Structure your lives to spend time together
3) Deal with crisis in a positive way
4) Communicate continually
- develop platforms for communication
- Control communication killers
- Encourage honesty and transparency in conversation
- Adopt a positive communication style
Communication styles
Retaliation-destroys positive communication-against each other-degrading
Domination-destroys open communication-over each other-intimating
Isolation-