All It Takes Is a Goal with Jon Acuff

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Jon Acuff is a New York Times bestselling author, INC Top 100 Leadership Speaker, and the host of the “All It Takes Is a Goal” podcast. His perspectives on success and lessons from failure are highly respected by fellow experts and everyday entrepreneurs alike. Just coming off the release of his latest book, 'All It Takes Is a Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and Tap Into Your Massive Potential', Jon joins me on the show to discuss his journey, share insights from his newest work, and provide advice for entrepreneurs who want to create success.

Highlights from our conversation:

Jon's backstory, areas of expertise, and current professional endeavors
Taking action on emotions rather than allowing them to define our paths
The right way to set a goal and pursue it in a meaningful way
Why consistency and positivity are key to achieving your big dreams

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Some beats none.
0:01.3	It adds up.
0:02.4	I'm a struggling perfectionist, and a perfectionist would rather get a zero than a C minus.
0:08.2	It's a really weird thing.
0:09.5	But what happens is a perfectionist will go, John, I want to run three miles a day, but I only
0:13.5	have time for two today.
0:14.6	So I'm going to do none.
0:15.7	And you go, well, you know, two is more than none, but it's less than what they want
0:19.9	it.
0:20.1	So they won't even do it.
0:21.9	Some beat none is one of those where I'm like, no, the little things add up.
0:26.4	The little things add up.
0:27.3	Some beats none.
0:28.0	Some beats none.
0:28.7	Like calling one client is better than no clients.
0:31.1	Like, did I want 10?
0:32.0	I did, dude.
0:32.7	I wanted to call 10.
0:33.8	But that might not have been realistic.
0:35.5	It might not have been what I had in me that day. I think about it like this. Like, I'm a natural, pessimistic, jaded, cynical person, but I've
0:43.4	tested positivity and I've tested negativity. And the ROI of positivity is so much better.
0:48.4	That was from a longtime friend of mine named John Acuff. Now, you probably know John because he's on his ninth book now. He's
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