Discipline Keeps You Growing
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As John C. Maxwell says, “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.” In this episode, John is sharing a lesson on the importance of consistency in leadership and being intentional with adding value to others every day!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson break down John's insights and give you practical application for your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Continue to intentionally add value to people every day.
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The key to significance is consistency.
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Today matters — make it count.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Discipline Keeps You Growing Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Discipline and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | We are committed today to add value to you, so you will then go multiply value to others. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, I'm so excited about today what John's going to teach about. But before I talk about |
| 0:21.9 | that, I'm joined today in studio with Chris Robinson. How you doing, buddy? Hey, man, I'm doing outstanding. |
| 0:27.0 | Man, it is always good to see you kids back in school. Oh, man, back in school. I mean, I'll tell you |
| 0:33.4 | what, summer is work. I mean, so they are all back in. As the listeners know, I've got six |
| 0:40.2 | kids. I've got triplets that are 16. So now they're driving back to school. So that's phenomenal. |
| 0:47.2 | And then I've got a 12-year-old going seventh grade. And then I've got twins that are identical |
| 0:52.7 | girls that are going into the third grade. |
| 0:55.4 | So we got the whole range. |
| 0:56.8 | So now are the 16-year-olds driving the rest of the kids to, we're not quite there, right? |
| 1:01.8 | No, they're going to separate schools. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay. |
| 1:03.5 | So now, you know, the younger three, they ride their bikes to school because it's right outside |
| 1:07.7 | the neighborhood. |
| 1:08.4 | Then the older three are driving separately together. So we got two cars deploying to the high school because two of them are in the same car because they both run cross country. So they've got the same schedule. Then the third one has a different schedule. So he's driving separately. But it's a different world. Hey, Ben. I've told you, you said we're excited that we have three 16-year-olds driving, and I went, there's nothing |
| 1:29.1 | about that that sounds exciting to me, except you don't have to curry them everywhere you go, right? |
| 1:33.0 | My full-time job was really an Uber for these kids, you know what I mean? |
| 1:38.6 | Yes, especially during track season because, boy, you got some active little young people |
| 1:44.8 | right there. |
| 1:45.8 | That's so fun. |
| 1:46.8 | Leadership, good? |
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