Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others.

My name is Mark Cole and today we're starting a brand new two-part series

where John Maxwell is talking about how we can be leaders who overcome instead

of being overcome.

Now, as John talks about this, he's going to talk about the inside work that we need to do that many times

paralyzes us and next week he'll come back and talk about the external forces that

paralyze us and stops us from being the leader that we should be.

I'm so excited because after John's lesson I'm going to be joined by Tracy Morrow and

we're going to discuss what we learned and how we can apply this lesson to our life and to our leadership.

Here we go. Here is John Maxwell. In your life in my life, we're going to have all kind of obstacles, barriers, difficulties in our life.

I have a minor in counseling and I used to do 30 hours of counseling a week.

And in doing 30 hours of counseling a week you very quickly begin to see patterns.

One of the things that I realized is that people who give up

are usually beat up with what I call the four-r's.

So if you allow me in this lesson on over-constructed... with what I call the four hours.

So if you allow me in this lesson on overcoming instead of being overcome,

I want to talk to you about the four hours.

I'm going to give them to you now.

The first two hours basically deal with ourselves and they're what I call the inside issues of our own life.

Number one is regret.

I run to a lot of people that are filled with regret. Boy, I wish I wouldn't have done this. I wish I would have done this. Oh, I missed that opportunity back there. The second R is resentment. There are a lot of a lot of people that hold an awful lot of resentment within their lives,

and those are both what I call the inside issues.

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