ATG 128: How to Avoid the Urgent Zone

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Are you stuck in the Urgent Zone, where high energy actions leave you with low value? Let’s unravel the secrets of avoiding this productivity trap. What if I told you that perfectionism is just fear dressed up in a tuxedo, preventing you from reaching your goals? Discover how to break free from the Urgent Zone and focus on what truly matters. Plus, our episode sponsor, GGC Ad, has a $5 parenting tip hidden within. Can you find it? Tune in now and revolutionize your approach to success. In Th...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes to Go podcast, the best place in the entire
0:13.9	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
0:20.5	Acuff.
0:21.5	And today, we're talking about perfectionism.
0:24.6	Why have we been talking about it?
0:26.2	Because it's one of the biggest obstacles to accomplishing your goal.
0:30.8	And this is a podcast about goals.
0:32.8	This is a podcast for goal nerds.
0:34.8	I may goal nerd.
0:35.9	I say that all this time.
0:37.7	I love goals.
0:38.7	And the reason why it's really simple, a goal is the fastest path between where you are
0:42.3	today and where you want to be tomorrow.
0:44.6	But most people never finish their goals.
0:47.8	So for the last 12 years, I've been deep diving on the subject of goals.
0:53.0	I've written a bunch of books about goals.
0:54.7	I have an online goal community called the guaranteed goals community.
0:58.5	I tweet about goals, I post about goals.
1:00.5	I have this podcast about goals.
1:02.6	You can see a pattern.
1:03.6	You can see a theme and over and over and over and over again.
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