What You Focus on Expands
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, John Maxwell teaches what you should put before you and what you should put behind you during times of crisis. What you put before you is what you focus on, and what you focus on expands.
Mark Cole is joined by Chris Goede for the discussion portion of this episode to talk about John's lesson. They remind us the importance of values-based leadership when so much is uncertain and hard decisions need to be made. Mark points out that business always follows values, but values don't always follow business, while Chris Goede distinguishes between values and beliefs and how changing beliefs is a sign of growth.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the What You Focus on Expands Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Expand and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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What You Focus on Expands Facebook Live Video
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Maxxel Leadership Podcast. Mark Cole here and today I have back with me |
| 0:12.6 | on Zoom because we're social distancing. Chris Goady, you know him. He's been on this |
| 0:19.5 | podcast before. He is on our leadership team helping John and I lead into the future. |
| 0:25.9 | And you're going to enjoy Chris and I debriefing John's lesson. But before you get there, you're |
| 0:32.8 | getting ready to hear a lesson where John teaches what you focus on expands. I can promise |
| 0:41.2 | you this lesson will change your perspective during this time of crisis. Now before you listen |
| 0:49.1 | to John, I want to challenge you. Go to Maxwell Podcast dot com forward slash expand and you will |
| 0:56.6 | get a bonus resource worksheet to where you can follow along and fill in the blanks. So click on |
| 1:03.1 | the bonus resource, download the worksheet and you are going to enjoy this lesson. Now here is John Maxxwell. |
| 1:19.8 | Hey, it's my joy. One more time to come to you as we do every Monday and just share with you |
| 1:25.5 | something that perhaps will help you right now again with all the load that you're carrying and |
| 1:31.1 | with the crisis is here. I mean, we're all being moved and this is a difficult time. So I want to |
| 1:39.2 | share with you something that I've really been thinking about for the last five or six days. And |
| 1:43.9 | so I just developed a lesson on it. It comes from a really comes from a statement that I've said |
| 1:49.4 | before that I just have always loved the saying and that is that what we focus on expands. And that's |
| 1:57.0 | where we're going to go today because what you and I really do focus on, it begins to get bigger in |
| 2:03.4 | our life. Just as to be honest with you, what we don't focus on begins to shrink. And so what happens |
| 2:11.2 | in a crisis is that course it causes great distraction. I mean, this country is distracting. |
| 2:17.6 | And so distraction is just a word that basically means I kind of lose my way. It's, you know, |
| 2:23.8 | it's I was talking to a businessman this week and he was sharing with me. He said, he was a |
| 2:28.5 | Christian, a faith person. And he said, I feel like Nea, my and I'm up there building the wall and |
| 2:34.8 | everybody's wanting me to come down. I want to talk to him and I keep saying I'm building the wall. |
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