Thought Busters or Thought Boosters (Part 1)

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

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🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

If you’re familiar at all with John Maxwell, you know the secret ingredient to his leadership and success is the time he takes to think. That’s why we’re excited to bring you this two-part series on practices that can either boost or bust your thinking.

Thoughts and ideas are fragile in the beginning, and they can only reach their full potential in a healthy environment. In this episode, John talks about five thought busters that can harm your thought life.

Mark and Richard then expand on the discussion by sharing their own strategies for maintaining a healthy thought environment and how implementing those strategies has developed their leadership capabilities.

In next week’s episode, we’ll pick the discussion back up with nine thought boosters that will maximize your ability to think creativity and critically so you get the most out of your think time.

Our BONUS resource for this series is the Thought Boosters Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/boosters and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

References:

How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell (Formerly Thinking for a Change)

The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork by John C. Maxwell

Leadershift by John C. Maxwell (Pre-Order)

5 Levels of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Richard Chancin with the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, and I'm really excited
0:08.0	about this two-part series we've got for you called Thought Busters or Thought Boosters.
0:14.5	Okay, that was Jake's idea because it's Halloween.
0:18.4	Now today we're going to be dealing with the Busters.
0:21.1	So we hope you're enjoying this podcast.
0:23.2	If you want to get the notes for this episode, you can find those at MaxwellPodcast.com,
0:28.8	word slash boosters.
0:31.7	Now here's Dr. John Maxwell.
0:40.3	Thoughts and dreams are quite fragile.
0:42.2	You know that as well as I do.
0:43.5	Especially in their beginning birthing stage, they're very fragile.
0:48.6	And so I'd like to talk to you about some things that are thought busters in your life
0:52.2	that you want to avoid and obviously some things that will boost your thoughts that you
0:56.0	want to bring into your life as much as possible in the book, Thinking for a Change.
0:59.4	I have a chapter where I talk about find a place to land your thoughts.
1:03.2	What do you do when you start coming for landing on a plane?
1:05.4	First thing you do is fasten your seatbelt because you know that this could be bumpy.
1:09.8	You could be hitting the runway pretty hard.
1:11.6	The first thing you do when you think of landing is fasten your seatbelt.
1:14.2	And can I tell you something?
1:15.2	When you begin to land a thought with other people, you better fasten your seatbelt because
1:21.0	they're going to have all kind of responses to you.
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