How to Make Your Future Bigger than Your Past
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, John C. Maxwell shares timeless principles for turning your personal development into a lifelong journey of growth. You'll learn how to use your past as a teacher—not a trap—and apply positive thinking techniques and goal-setting habits to create a brighter tomorrow.
After John's lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson unpack how to apply these lessons to your leadership, helping you strengthen your success mindset, overcome setbacks, and keep moving toward your dreams.
You'll learn how to:
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Turn lessons from failure into lasting success
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Build momentum through daily self-improvement habits
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Use reflection to set meaningful goals
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Cultivate a growth-oriented, positive mindset
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Keep your leadership development journey alive
🎯 Our BONUS resource for this episode is the How to Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/BiggerFuture and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:01.0 | How's your work-life balance been lately? |
| 0:03.8 | If those pesky daily tasks are always eating away at your time, that means you can't focus |
| 0:09.5 | on what matters most. |
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| 1:24.1 | Hey, welcome back to the Maxwell Leadership podcast. Our podcast is committed to adding value to you so that you'll multiply value to others today. Chris Robinson is here. |
| 1:34.3 | We're going to talk about how to make your future bigger than your past. And we're going to get to John in just a moment. |
| 1:40.8 | But Chris, you set some of our new coaches on a path to becoming better in the future. |
| 1:47.4 | You just spent time with 20, 25 of them in West Palm Beach. |
| 1:50.2 | Yeah, you know, we typically have the opportunity to spend, you know, time with thousands of people. |
| 1:54.8 | Right. |
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