Self-Sabotage: Getting Out of Your Own Way (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As we conclude our series on self-sabotage, John Maxwell teaches the final five most common self-sabotaging traits for leaders. You'll learn what to do when you're surrounded by negative people, how leaders should handle failure, and the importance of having a teachable attitude.
For the application portion of this episodes, Mark Cole and Chris Goede share how they have seen some of these leadership barriers in their own lives and in the leaders around them, and how they use John's remedies for self-sabotage to set themselves up for success as well as the people they lead.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Self-Sabotage Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Sabotage and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listeners Mark Cole here. Before we get started today I want to take just a brief moment and |
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| 1:02.8 | Hey, welcome back to the John Maxwell leadership podcast Mark Cole here and I'm excited to bring to you part two of |
| 1:11.3 | Getting out of your own way |
| 1:13.9 | Now those of you that are podcast listeners and have been for some time our goal is every week weekend and week out |
| 1:21.7 | To add value to you and last week |
| 1:25.6 | last episode was no exception John Maxwell talked to us about four traits |
| 1:32.9 | four things that could really cause you behaviors that could allow you to self-sabotage |
| 1:39.6 | If you did not create a remedy for these things that are in prevalent in all of our leadership journey |
| 1:46.3 | This week no different to that. He's gonna bring you six more |
| 1:51.1 | sabotage behaviors |
| 1:53.1 | But here's the great news. He's gonna bring you a remedy with each of these behaviors now |
| 1:59.4 | I've got to tell you this in John's teaching |
| 2:02.9 | He did not address the remedy for sabotage number nine |
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