What You Focus On Expands (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
If what you focus on expands and what you put behind you shrinks, your focus impacts the trajectory of your leadership. This week, we’re continuing our two-part series where John Maxwell shares 4 things that you should focus on!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson discuss John’s insights and give you practical ways that you can apply them to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Take action on things that are worthwhile.
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The main difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
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Don’t allow others to control your destiny.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the What You Focus on Expands (Part 2) Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Expand and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to part two of what you focus on expands. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, and the reason I say welcome back is because we're in the middle of a two-part series today to add value to you so you'll |
| 0:23.1 | multiply value to others. Today, my co-host, Chris Robinson and I are listening to an ongoing |
| 0:30.1 | lesson by John Maxwell that you're going to hear in just a moment. And what John's talking about |
| 0:34.8 | today is a continuation of last episode where he talks about what you focus on expands. |
| 0:41.3 | Now, here's what I love about today's lesson. |
| 0:44.9 | John starts it with this right here. |
| 0:46.7 | Take action on things that are worthwhile. |
| 0:50.0 | What have you done just today? |
| 0:52.8 | Podcast viewer, podcast family, podcast listener. What have you done just today? Podcast viewer, podcast family, podcast listener? |
| 0:56.4 | What have you done today that has not been worth your while? |
| 1:00.5 | Now, do not answer, listen to this podcast. |
| 1:03.1 | That is the incorrect answer. |
| 1:05.7 | But what is the correct answer? |
| 1:07.1 | Because all of us, all of us relate to the fact that some days we just do things that |
| 1:12.8 | are more worthwhile while other days we don't. Today, John's going to take you through seven |
| 1:18.6 | questions that will help you identify what is worthwhile and what needs to be added to your |
| 1:25.1 | focus. As we do that, we're going to continue and complete today, part two in our two episode |
| 1:32.3 | series called What You Focus on Expans. |
| 1:37.1 | If you would like to download a free bonus resource of this episode or watch this |
| 1:42.5 | episode on YouTube, you can go to |
| 1:44.8 | Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash expand. |
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