Focused Thinking (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In part two of this series on focused thinking, John Maxwell helps us narrow down our focus as he shares what we need to focus on. We get the greatest return on investment when we focus on our strengths, our key people, and our team’s development. John concludes by providing a Rule of Five for developing your own team.
Jason Brooks and Mark Cole discuss what it looks like to live out this lesson, and Mark encourages us to get very clear on what we’re good at. Jason defines teachability as a combination of hungry, humble, and hustle. Mark challenges us to rate ourselves on each of those attributes and allow that to help us see where we need to focus.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Focused Thinking Worksheet. You can access the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Focus and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, thank you for tuning in to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I'm Mark Cole. I am excited today |
| 0:13.0 | because you get to hear again from my co-host Jason Brooks. Jason, as I told you last week, |
| 0:19.0 | Jason is a friend and an incredible leader on our team and he has some thoughts today on |
| 0:26.0 | focus thinking, grab a pen, grab a paper because part two of focus thinking is getting ready to begin. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey, before I turn it over to John, if you want to get the notes for this episode, |
| 0:37.0 | go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash focus, click on the bonus resource button, grab a pen, |
| 0:44.0 | here's John Maxwell. |
| 0:56.0 | So, where you should focus for success is this. The immature mind hops from one thing to another, |
| 1:05.0 | and the mature mind seeks to follow through Harry Overshreet said that. |
| 1:10.0 | So I've got to ask myself this thought, where do I need to give 100% because it's impossible for me to give 100% all day. |
| 1:19.0 | So if I'm going to do 100%, I mean, you and I can't be 100% 24-7. |
| 1:25.0 | So I've got to say, where am I going to really focus? Where am I going to get, where am I really going to focus? |
| 1:31.0 | And the key is, you focus on the areas that would give you the ROI. |
| 1:36.0 | Where am I going to get the greatest return on my investment? That's where I focus. |
| 1:40.0 | So for me, and this is going to be true with you too, trust me, I focus in these areas. |
| 1:46.0 | I focus in the area of my strengths. In other words, what do I do well? |
| 1:52.0 | Because that's going to be, give me a great return to my weaknesses. |
| 1:56.0 | I focus with key people. Almost every day, Mark Cole who runs all of my companies in the CEO, |
| 2:03.0 | and almost every day, Linda Eggers, who basically handles my life almost every day, I'm working with them. |
| 2:09.0 | I'm focused thinking with him because they're key people. |
| 2:12.0 | So what are my strengths? I've got to focus there. What are the key people I'm going to be with? |
| 2:16.0 | Who are they? I've got to focus there. What's the main event? |
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