How to Increase Your Focus
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
“Traction is always good; distraction is always bad.” Wondering how you can maintain your focus in leadership, even during challenging times? In this episode, John Maxwell is sharing 5 things to put behind you and 5 things to put before you that will help you fix your energy on the things that matter most!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow sit down to talk about what John has shared and offer practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Dwelling on what you can’t do breeds frustration.
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If you’re persistent, you will get it. If you’re consistent, you will keep it.
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Don’t count your losses; count your lessons.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the How to Increase Your Focus worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/IncreaseFocus and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:16.8 | My name is Mark Cole, and this week, John Maxwell is sharing a lesson that's all about what to focus on during challenging times. |
| 0:26.2 | John says it like this. |
| 0:27.3 | He says, traction is always good. |
| 0:30.8 | Distraction is always bad. |
| 0:33.4 | But let's go back to what we're talking about today is how to increase your focus and specifically |
| 0:39.8 | how to increase your focus during difficult times. And yet, isn't it true in difficult times, |
| 0:46.2 | distractions reigns supreme and opportunity and focus sometimes seems hard to find? So John's going to teach us, and after John is teaching this lesson, my co-host, Tracy |
| 0:59.0 | Marl and I are going to come back and we're going to dissect what we heard John say, how |
| 1:04.4 | we are applying what John says, and we believe we'll give you some things that you can apply |
| 1:09.8 | to your life and your leadership as well. |
| 1:13.0 | If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode or watch this episode on YouTube, |
| 1:19.4 | go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash increase focus. |
| 1:25.6 | When I'm done today, I want you to stay in because I'm going to introduce you to one of our listeners that also said this. |
| 1:34.1 | I have applied this lesson talking about a previous episode and it is making a difference. |
| 1:40.2 | I want to hear, I want you to hear the difference that he's making because I want it to inspire in you |
| 1:45.5 | to leave us a comment as well, to maybe ask a question so that we can continue to serve you and add value to you. |
| 1:53.6 | So grab a pen, grab some paper, get away to take some notes because John's going to help you know how to increase your focus. |
| 2:03.4 | Here is John. |
| 2:10.2 | Challenging times cause us to be distracted. |
| 2:14.8 | One of the side effects of going through difficult, dark times, |
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