Courage to Continue
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In leadership, how can you have courage to continue and keep moving forward in difficult times? John Maxwell shares a lesson in this episode that is all about courage and the important role it plays in the lives of leaders!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow talk about what John has shared and help you navigate how to apply it to your own life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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We need to focus on today — today matters.
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Courage is not an absence of fear or failure.
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Actions follow the dominant emotion.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Courage to Continue Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Courage and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 1:24.3 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, a podcast that exists to add value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm Mark Cole, and today I'm very excited because John is going to teach us a lesson today that will make a difference for you for many years to come. |
| 1:42.9 | In this episode, John has going to help us |
| 1:45.9 | answer the question that many of us leaders have not asked just once, not twice, but every time |
| 1:52.6 | in difficult situations. And the question is, how do I continue? How can I go on from here? |
| 2:01.2 | Today, John is going to talk about the courage to continue, and I'm reminded of a Nelson |
| 2:05.8 | Mandela quote that says, I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph |
| 2:11.6 | over it. |
| 2:12.4 | The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. So as John challenges |
| 2:21.8 | you and I about the courage to continue, which, by the way, for those of you watching the |
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