My name is Jon Maples. I am a Police Chief for a medium sized agency. I love my job in leadership, but it wasn’t easy to get there. I want to spread the word of my journey-of how I got there and the lessons I have learned in making a better me for my family and my organization. I wish to provide life lessons to help fathers be better fathers, husbands be better husbands, and leaders be better leaders. We as a society need to get by to our God given American values-class, honor, respect, integrity, discipline, and hard work. We need to focus on our health and wellness to be the best version of ourselves we can be. Through my journey I have improved my quality of life for myself and the ones around me.
I want to help better the lives of others through my journey and what failures and successes I have had along the way. I grew up in a divorced family, always was the underdog, but knew I had to make good choices to make a better future for myself and my family.
I met a young lady in middle school that has always made me a better person. She is now my wife and provided me with two fun and energeticl sons.
I began my career as a young person and knew it was my calling. I worked hard and am career oriented. I worked my way through the ranks even through some failures and persevered to where I am today. I will talk a lot about this throughout these podcasts. I was appointed to my dream job as Police Chief of my hometown. While holding my dream job and being the boss, I got lost in my career and lost focus of my family and my health.
One day I realized how terrible of a person I was and the error of some of my ways. I decided to change my mindset in life. I heard a saying that changed my game… “You are what you do, not what you’ll say you’ll do! Get to work!” I am a leader of a police organization and was only “leading” people at work. I had the tools, but was only using them while at work. I needed to refocus on my life, my family, and my health. For this to happen I had to refocus on positive change and fall in love with an sustainable journey. I still work daily to build the right habits to be their best husband, father, and leader I can be.
Join me in this podcast if you want to learn from my failures so you can be successful. I am looking for people that want to follow and participate to get the most out of Life in Leadership to provide a better life for you and your family. Your life’s strategy matters most in your approach to circumstances and situations for you to be a champion or winner always. Stay in the Lion’s mood! That’s the mood for winners.
We will have guests on the show at minimum once a month. Guests from sports coaches to health and wellness coaches and other leaders.
Let me ask you, starting tomorrow, what are you going to do today to make a change in your life’s direction?
Who’s lives did I have an impact on. How many people did I have an opportunity to impact?
You know you are leaving a legacy for the people around you! What kind of legacy are you working on?
Are you modeling the values you want the ones around you to follow? Our society is losing those values, standards, and expectations and it’s our responsibility to cary those on and leave them for the ones around us.
All to often I see leaders lower their standards and expectations for others and that is how our values get lost.
To build a legacy we have to build a solid foundation of values, standards, leadership, and expectations of ourselves and the people around us. We have the responsibility to pass those values on to others.
As a leader you have the opportunity to impact other people.
You’re influencing several generations right now and most importantly the next generation.
7 Apr 2023
Fitness and Nutrition in Leadership
This week we talk with Fitness and nutrition Coach Travis Darr of Darr Fitness. He is going to talk about why health and fitness is important in leadership.
Excuses make today easier but tomorrow harder. Discipline makes today harder but tomorrow easier.
My fitness journey started as a way to be more fit and look better but it’s been much more…. It’s been more than fitness, its been personal growth. It’s make me a better leader, a better husband, a better father, and a better person. It has created patience, hard work, discipline, mental toughness, and betterment through adversity. It creates mental clarity. I’m addicted to the process of becoming a better person. Travis talks about the decision to change and the habits we have to create to become that better version of ourselves so we can better lead the ones around us.
24 Mar 2023
Adversity
This week we will talk about adversity and how we need to look at it. It can help grow us and forge us to be great people and great leaders. No chance we avoid adversity in life especially in leadership. So we have to decide now on what mindset we have to have to make it through adversity. Are we going to have a victim mindset or are we going to face adversity with a winners mindset knowing we can and will make it through on the other side and grow from it. We can and will be better leaders through adversity!
17 Mar 2023
Relationships
This week we will talk about the importance of relationships in leadership. Relationships are the key element to leading any exceptional team. Leadership requires relationshipss with people around you. Relationships are critical fo a strong team. They critical when you are leading yourself, your family, and in your career. We will talk about our ego. Your ego needs taken out of the questions first. We will talk about how to getter those relationships and ways to create relationships.
10 Mar 2023
Mindset
This week we will talk about a winning mindset which is a leaders mindset. Plan to have a winning mindset. Everyone has hopes and dreams but they need a plan. This week we will talk about what that looks like, we will talk about how to face challenges and adversity.
Challenges and adversity create opportunity, opportunity to grow. Challenges grow us and shape us. We have to have the right mindset to overcome these challenges and win.
3 Mar 2023
Old Habits Die Hard
This week we will talk about those old habits and how hard they are to break. We will talk about how to create good habits to create a positive leadership mindset to be the best leaders for ourselves and the ones around us. We will also talk and share stories of why those positive habits are so important.
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”- Colin Powell
Prepare your leadership mindset!
24 Feb 2023
Leadership Lessons
This episode 3 we will interview Sarge. Sarge is a new leader at my origination. He is a marine vet and his display of leadership is amazing. The way he holds himself, cares for his officers, and treats the community. He is a motivator and has learned many lessons from his life in the military and as a police officer. Join us for this amazing interview and discussion. We will talk leadership lessons and how to apply them in our life and our careers.
17 Feb 2023
Get Focused
In our journey we have to get focused, and they may be in some cases get refocused! Come along side me and we will talk about our leadership mission through disciple, consistency, and ownership. Know, you will fail at times, but we are winners and will pick back up and get focused!
10 Feb 2023
Failure Is Not Final
We will discuss becoming better leaders, spouses, and parents. We have to become better leaders through ownership, consistency, and discipline. You have to lead yourself first, before you can successfully lead in your career, your family, and life. Remember, we lead everyday in everything we do! When you think you have failed, pick up and prove that you can be successful!
What are you going to do today, to make a positive change in your life tomorrow?
3 Feb 2023
Intro to Life in Leadership Podcast
We will talk weekly on the following topics;- Health, wellness, and nutrition- Values, morals, a positive mindset- Leadership in our careers, lives, and familyWe will talk about the daily habits of these topics through consistency, ownership, and discipline.
What are you going to do today to make a positive change in your life’s direction for tomorrow?
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