Reflect Instead of React
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As John Maxwell says, all is well that begins well and all is well that ends well — reflection is key to ending well! In this episode, John shares what his reflection path looks like and helps you understand why reflection is so important when it comes to success in leadership.
After his lesson, Mark Cole takes what John has shared and offers you practical ways to implement it into your own life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Instead of having reactions to what is happening to us, we need to have reflection.
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The most important person you listen to every day is yourself.
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Does my reflection lead to action?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Mark Cole, and in today's episode, John Maxwell is sharing a lesson on how we can reflect |
| 0:23.3 | on the things we are going through instead of reacting to them when they arise. |
| 0:28.9 | After the lesson, I'll be back and we'll sit down and discuss what John has shared as well |
| 0:35.3 | as give some practical application, some tips that when implemented |
| 0:41.1 | will impact your life and leadership. |
| 0:44.3 | As always, I would love to have you download the free bonus resource for this episode or to watch |
| 0:51.5 | it on YouTube. |
| 0:52.2 | You can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash reflect to download |
| 0:59.2 | the free resource as well as watch it on YouTube. But here's what I really want to tell you. |
| 1:05.4 | Take a moment, slow down, and reflect on this podcast because in the reflection, you will find impacting |
| 1:14.9 | things that will make you better. Now, here we go. Let's reflect. Here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:27.4 | Reflect instead of react to adversity now we all know the definition of insanity the definition |
| 1:35.4 | of insanity is is when we do the same thing over and over again and yet expect different results well |
| 1:41.4 | that's insanity well those same actions those things we do over and over again, |
| 1:48.0 | those are reactions. |
| 1:49.7 | And what we need to do is instead of having reactions |
| 1:52.5 | to what's happening to us, we need to have reflection. |
| 1:56.2 | And the best way I can explain that to you |
| 1:57.9 | and share that with you is to share with you |
| 1:59.6 | how I do this, okay? |
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