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All It Takes Is A Goal

ATG 108: A Formal Invitation To the Best Year of Your Life

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week on All it Takes is a Goal, I’m sharing a story about a castle, a third-grade teacher, and YOU! This is a story about how to stop putting off your dreams and how to get started on them. Most importantly, it’s about how to stick with them day in and day out until you’ve finally succeeded in the goals that are most important to you. This story changed my life, and I think it will change yours too. It might even make 2023 your best year. Tune in for your invitation to my party of possib...

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0:00.0

Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes a Gold Podcast, the best place in the

0:13.7

entire world, including all of Canada.

0:16.7

To learn how to build new thoughts, new actions, and new results, I'm your host, John

0:20.8

A.C.

0:21.8

And today, I'm going to tell you a story about a castle, a third grade teacher, and you.

0:29.0

At the end of it, I'm going to offer you a very simple invitation.

0:35.2

What do you think of when you think of New England?

0:38.5

When you think of New England, what pops into your mind?

0:42.2

I personally think of brightly lit fall trees, apple orchards with rickety, self-pick ladders

0:50.8

and wind-swept beaches that are perfect for wistful looking, but far too cold for even

0:57.7

summer swimming.

0:59.7

I think of lobsters and lighthouses, aggressive accents and snow plows that hum through the

1:07.0

night so that even a foot of snow can't keep you from school in the morning.

1:12.0

Ipswich, Massachusetts was all of that and so much more to me when I was a little kid.

1:19.3

It was on the North Shore, surrounded by the kind of towns and attractions that have

1:24.0

names that they feel like they're plugged directly from a hallmark channel Christmas

1:28.9

movie.

1:29.9

Names like Manchester by the sea, Marblehead, Singing Beach.

1:35.6

I would ride my bike as a nine-year-old to the ocean and stare at Crane's Castle, a 56,000

1:44.0

square foot fortress that loomed large over the North Atlantic.

1:49.3

We had a castle in our town.

1:52.3

But more than that, we had Mrs. Harris.

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