Maximize Your Joy (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Life is going to have challenges whether we expect them or not — we might as well use them to grow. In this week's episode, John continues his lesson from last week to share a few key principles that impact the joy in your leadership journey. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow share real-life strategies to help you apply these principles in your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Growth happens not by avoiding adversity but by doing hard things—so you're prepared to take on even greater challenges.
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Leaders maximize their impact when they focus on the journey, not by keeping score, but by continually moving forward and celebrating each step.
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Generosity and deep joy are fruits of a grateful mindset, reminding leaders to stay present and appreciate the opportunities in front of them.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Maximize Your Joy (Part 2) Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Joy and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm excited to welcome you if you're a first timer, even though it's part two. |
| 0:17.1 | So you're going to have to go back and listen to part one because we are right in the middle |
| 0:21.8 | of a two-part series that John is teaching on joy. |
| 0:26.1 | In fact, it's about maximizing your joy. |
| 0:28.6 | It's not just having it. |
| 0:29.9 | It's increasing. |
| 0:31.1 | It's cultivating and it's making it better. |
| 0:33.1 | And Tracy, love talking about a lot of things with you, but man, it has been fun last week. It's going |
| 0:38.7 | be great today to talk about joy as well. Yes, we've had lots of things to be practicing |
| 0:44.0 | over the last week, and so I look forward to having some new fresh ways to practice being |
| 0:50.9 | very intentional about being joyful. I love this hook right here. |
| 0:56.0 | So keep listening, cause John's gonna talk |
| 0:58.1 | about cultivating joy with his first point today |
| 1:01.7 | embrace difficulty. |
| 1:03.3 | So there is the teaser of the day, |
| 1:05.6 | because that really is what John's gonna start with. |
| 1:09.0 | But we're right in the middle of maximizing |
| 1:11.6 | joy. |
| 1:12.4 | Hey, if you would like to follow along with John, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash |
| 1:18.7 | joy. |
| 1:19.2 | You'll find a lot of links there, a lot of resources. |
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