897: Jon Acuff: The Three Steps to Achieving Any Goal

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jon Acuff reveals why we often struggle to meet our goals—and shares practical advice for achieving results.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to make your loftiest goals more reachable.

2) The “right” amount of goals to pursue.

3) How to stay motivated when things get tough.

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— ABOUT JON —

Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including Soundtracks, Your New Playlist, and the Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. When he's not writing or recording his popular podcast, All It Takes Is a Goal, Acuff can be found on a stage as one of INC's Top 100 Leadership Speakers. He's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, and companies around the world, including FedEx, Range Rover, Microsoft, Nokia, and Comedy Central. He lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two daughters.

• Book: All It Takes Is a Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and Tap Into Your Massive Potential

• Book: Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

• Podcast: All It Takes Is a Goal

• Website: JonAcuff.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Automaticity of Social Behavior: Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on Action” by John A. Bargh, Mark Chen, and Lara Burrows

• Product: Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

• Book: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

• Personality: Mike Peasley, MTSU professor

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.5	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.1	With your host, Pete Makaitas.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to Episode 8 and 97 with John A. Cough.
0:22.7	John is a luminary in the field of setting and achieving goals.
0:26.8	Personal development has written a lot of great stuff and I've enjoyed reading a
0:29.9	lot of it.
0:31.6	And now he is sharing the three steps to achieving any goal and what I love about this conversation
0:37.2	so much is that it's not fluffy, it's practical, it's battle-tested, it's wise.
0:44.8	He's put this wisdom through its paces, so it is so good.
0:47.5	You'll learn one, how to make your loftiest goals more reachable, two, the right amount
0:52.1	of goals to pursue, and three, how to stay motivated when things get tough.
0:55.9	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's
0:58.6	that we referenced, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep897.
1:03.1	And if you're hanging out at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out some of
1:06.5	our goodies, such as the Golden Nugget email list, which summarizes the actionable wisdom
1:10.4	of each guest in a quick email that drops, releases, publishes, comes to your inbox, if
1:16.1	you will, the day of the interview.
1:19.7	And when you sign up for the Golden Nuggets, you'll also unlock the whole vault, the archive
1:22.8	of all of these Golden Nugget summaries.
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