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The Leading Edge: I’ve Got Dreams To Remember

  In his song, I’ve Got Dreams To Remember, late soul-singer Otis Redding, painfully croons about his lost love. At some point, Otis and his love were an item, but now, she’s moved on. Otis wails and begs for her to stay, but it is not to be. He knows that he can no longer…

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The Leading Edge: Failure, Embrace It

  Thomas Edison stated, “I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work!” Someone once said, “Failure is nothing more than showing you that you have room for improvement.” Have you ever feared failure?  It can be so debilitating! How many people do we see in our lives that experience failure and then just give…

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The Leading Edge: I wouldn’t do that if I were you!

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you!”  This one short sentence righted my trajectory and set me on track to realize my dream.  John C. Maxwell, in his book Put Your Dream to the Test, asks the tenacious question, “Am I moving closer to my dream?”  I sure thought I was until someone who…

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Real Stories, Real Success:
Learning to Lean Into Greatness

  Angi San Souci joined the John Maxwell Team in 2013 and admits that, at the time, she was “afraid of not just my own shadow, but my own greatness and my potential.” This lack of confidence held her back from attending her International Maxwell Certification Event for nearly two years, as she made the…

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The Leading Edge: Does it Fire You up?

By: Cornelia Steinberg As a young child growing up in the 60s in Germany, I had a dream. I saw myself living in the USA. I had no idea where that dream came from. I would go around and tell people that I would be moving to the US when I am older. Of course,…

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The Leading Edge: Do I Clearly See My Dream?

By: Dennis LaRue, Jr. In the book Put Your Dreams to the Test, John C. Maxwell asks the question, “Do I clearly see my dream?”  It’s a simple question, a thought-provoking and life-altering question. It’s the type of question that could lead an introspective person into a deep contemplative state for days until answered. It’s…

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Real Stories, Real Success:
Setting the Foundation for Success

Bob and Nancy Kittridge are a husband-and-wife coaching team, both of whom have been members of the John Maxwell Team since 2011. Their true passion, and the path that their JMT experience has led them on, is in getting back to basics by helping build a foundation for other people’s success. They started out coaching…

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The Leading Edge: Living with Intentionality

By: Amy Modglin May I take a moment and share with you my favorite John Maxwell book? It is Intentional Living, and I am sure he wrote this book just for me. It resonates with my life story and has upped the ante for me in my life journey of living a life that matters.…

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The Leading Edge: Changing Your Reflection Can Change Your Story

By: Anza Goodbar In John Maxwell’s New York Times Best Seller The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, he says, “You shouldn’t be too concerned about what others might think of you. You should be more concerned about what you think of yourself.” Chapter 3, The Law of the Mirror, paved the way to reframing past…

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