1.
John, what exactly is intentional
living? Intentional
living is deliberately, consistently, and willfully doing things to make a
difference every day in the lives of others.
2.
What do you hope your book, Intentional Living, will do for the
lives of your readers?
My desire for this book is for it to help readers experience a fulfilling life
by taking action every day to make a difference in the lives of others. Many
people desire success, but aren’t intentional about going after it. They have
good intentions, but good intentions aren’t enough. Then, even when the people
who are somewhat intentional about pursuing success achieve it, they discover
that success alone is hollow – that it doesn’t give them the fulfillment that
they’d hoped for. That’s why I encourage people to be intentional – for the
right reasons. When you focus on adding value to others, you experience
significance, rather than just success. And I believe that once you’ve tasted
significance, success will never satisfy.
3.
You have been inspiring and
motivating millions for decades. How does this book differ from your earlier
bestsellers? This
is the most personal book I’ve ever written. When I sat down to work on this
book, I felt like the message was so important that I had to really think about
how I was going to deliver it. As I thought it over, I realized that
significance was something I had discovered over the course of my life. And I’d
also learned different aspects of intentional living along the way. To really
communicate the concepts, I needed to tell a lot of my story. With Intentional
Living, I was able to teach and illustrate the concepts by telling my own
journey of significance, from my teen years up to the present.
Also,
many of my books contain opportunities for application, but before Intentional
Living, we’d never before created an entire program of application to go along
with the book. I wanted to make the idea as accessible and applicable as
possible. So we created the 7 Day Experiment, a free online resource to help
people get a taste of living intentionally and making a difference. We also
developed the 30 Day Journey, which expands on the 7 Day Experiment by giving
people 30 days’ worth of practical and concrete things that they can do to establish
the habit of intentional living, which they could then carry on for the rest of
their lives.
4. Does
one's life have to have a purpose, and if so, how does one discover what it is? I believe everyone does have a
purpose, whether they know it or not. I’m a person of faith. And while I’m not
trying to push it on anyone, it does color my perspective. As a person of
faith, I believe everyone was created by God and given distinct gifts and
talents. And I believe everyone is surrounded by opportunities to make a
difference. If you discover what you’re good at and look for ways to help other
people, you can begin to understand your purpose. Then, when you’re doing the
thing that you were created to do, for the benefit of other people, something
resonates inside of you that says, “I was made for this.” I believe anyone can
develop their best thing and use it to help others, and thus tap into their
purpose.
5. John,
there are tens of millions of people in America struggling to deal with pain,
loss, poverty, disability, mental illness, low IQ, disease or some kind of
deficit. How will they find the time, resources, strength and education to
implement the life you are proposing?
When most people hear about making a difference or living intentionally, they
mistakenly believe that they have to do something big. But that’s not true. To
make a difference, you don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be famous or
influential. You don’t have to have lived a long life. You can do something for
another person no matter where you are in life. You can say something kind and
affirming to the cashier in the checkout line. You can leave a good tip for a
single mom waiting on you in a restaurant. You can give someone your seat on
the subway. You can teach a child to read. If you help others, using what you
do have, you can make a difference. If you do that consistently, that’s
intentional living.
For more information, and a review of his latest book, please see: http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/john-maxwell-best-selling-author-shows.htm
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