Strategies to Stop Complacency
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When you’re tempted to stop moving forward, there are a few key strategies that will keep you going — and John Maxwell is sharing those strategies in this episode!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson sit down to discuss what John has talked about and help you practically apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Busyness without productivity is an early sign of complacency.
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Go expose yourself to bigger, better, faster people.
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A goal that does not stretch you is not a worthy goal.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Strategies to Stop Complacency Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/StopComplacency and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Our podcast is committed to adding value to you, so you will go and multiply value to others. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Mark Cole. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, John is sharing a lesson on strategies that will help you |
| 0:23.8 | to keep you moving forward even when the temptation is to stop. John makes a statement in this |
| 0:31.1 | lesson. I want you to catch it already, and he hadn't even given it yet. Get yourself connected |
| 0:36.6 | to people that are bigger, better, faster than you. And if I could |
| 0:42.4 | tell you today, John Maxwell at this stage of his life, continues to look for strategy to keep him |
| 0:50.3 | from being complacent. I'm also joined today with Chris Robinson, my co-host. You know Chris. |
| 0:55.9 | In fact, I'm going to introduce a new component to Chris today for those of you that really think |
| 0:59.9 | you know Chris. And between Chris and I and John, we're going to give you some practical advice on how |
| 1:05.3 | you can apply what you've learned to both your life and your leadership. If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode or even watch |
| 1:15.1 | this episode on YouTube, you can go to maxwellpodcast.com forward slash stop complacency. |
| 1:23.4 | All right, grab a pen. |
| 1:25.3 | Get ready. |
| 1:25.9 | Here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:34.0 | Music All right, grab a pen. Get ready. Here is John Maxwell. There are strategies that will keep you moving when you're tempted to stop. |
| 1:39.7 | It'll keep you improving when you become complacent. |
| 1:43.6 | The first strategy is that you need, okay, when things are going well for you and for your company, |
| 1:50.0 | for your team, whatever, go shopping. When I talk about go shopping, let me explain what |
| 1:55.9 | go shopping means. The best way to stretch your thinking, the best way to get out of your comfort zone, |
| 2:05.3 | is to go places, visit companies, see people that are bigger and better than you are. So when I say |
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