ATG 227: Fear Comes Free, Hope Takes Work

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this episode, I'm sharing six powerful words that completely changed my perspective on fear and hope. I'll tell you some embarrassing stories about my brain's automatic negativity (including how I ruined a surprise party and why I'd be terrible at running a popsicle stand), plus give you the practical hope-building strategies I use every single day. Because remember—fear shows up uninvited, but hope is worth working for! In This Episode: Make sure to follow me on Instagram and share with ...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome the All It Takes the Goal podcast. If you're new around here,
0:13.8	and you might be. There's a ton. There's just millions, millions of people that are new around here.
0:20.4	I'm a late bloomer who discovered the power of goals in his mid-30s.
0:24.3	Now I'm on a furious mission to create the accelerators.
0:26.5	I wish I had in my 20s.
0:27.8	I'm your host, John Aikoff, and today I'm going to share it with you six words.
0:33.5	Six words that will change the way you look at fear and will change the way you look at hope.
0:38.7	Six words.
0:39.9	So let's just, let's not even wait.
0:41.8	Let's go ahead and give them to you right now.
0:44.5	I love 10 minute episodes, 12 minute episodes, 15 minute episodes.
0:48.8	I do two types of episodes.
0:50.3	I either have somebody interview and that's about an hour or so, or I have a quick one idea
0:57.0	episode that's 10 minutes, 12 minutes, 15 minutes of just pure encouragement and often actionable
1:03.5	steps you can take.
1:04.7	So the idea I'm going to share with you today is this, fear comes free, hope takes work.
1:10.2	Fear comes free, hope takes work. That is what I call
1:13.4	a soundtrack, a repetitive phrase that can help push you in the right direction. I wrote a book
1:18.3	called Soundtracks about mindset a few years ago. You can pick up a copy anywhere books are sold,
1:22.9	but let's dissect that. Fear comes free, hope takes work. What does that mean? It means you'll never have to go look for stress. You will never have to go look for fear or doubt or insecurity or perfectionism, procrastination, any kind of one of those villains that slows you don't. You'll never have to go find those. They will find you. They'll find you. Don't worry. You don't have to go search for them. I'll give you two examples for my own life. The first happened after I finished a half marathon. So Nashville has a great half marathon called the Rock and Roll Half Marathon. I bet I do it
2:02.5	every other year. I think I've done maybe 12, 13, 14 half marathons in my life. It's a great race.
2:09.5	You realize the city is a lot hillyer than you thought. If you want to figure out how hilly a place is,
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