ATG 245: Hope Hard, Work Hard: Why Hope Has Become Controversial (And Why You Need It Anyway)

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Apparently, hope is controversial now. Who knew? I've been posting about hope lately, and people have been telling me I'm tone deaf because the supply chain is broken and the economy is terrible. One of my friends literally can't be happy until the supply chain is fixed (even though he doesn't work in supply chain). When did we start tying our personal lives to global numbers we don't control? I spent nearly 20 years as an excuse factory—blaming my parents, my boss, the economy, my background...

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0:00.0	Hey, quick question. How many unfinished projects do you have right now? You know what I'm talking about.
0:05.9	The book you started writing, the business idea that's been almost ready forever. Here's the thing.
0:11.4	Your ideas aren't the problem. It's those broken soundtracks playing in your head to say things like
0:15.9	this needs to be perfect or I'll start Monday or we don't have enough money to really go all in yet.
0:21.6	I'm hosting a free two-day mindset reboot starting September 10th where I'll show you exactly how to replace those limiting thoughts and finally finish what you start.
0:31.6	Register now for free at Johnacup.com slash reboot. That's Johnacup.com slash reboot. Change your mindset, change your life.
0:39.7	See you inside the mindset reboot.
0:52.6	Hey, everyone, and welcome to the All It Takes a Goal podcast if you're new around here.
0:57.4	I'm a late bloomer who discovered the power of goals in its mid-30s.
1:01.0	Now I'm on a furious mission to create the accelerators.
1:03.7	I wish I had in my 20s.
1:05.0	I'm your host John Aikup in today's episode.
1:07.7	It's going to be a little spicy, just a little, a little bit spicy. It's got one pepper
1:13.2	next to it if it was on a menu item. You ever see it like you're at a restaurant, like a Thai restaurant, it's got one pepper, and you're like, I can do one pepper. Then you see someone's got like five peppers and you're like, uh, no thank you. It's going to be a little spicy because it's about hope and it turns out that hope is a controversial topic right now. I had no idea. I've been posting
1:12.4	about hope lately And it turns out that hope is a controversial topic right now.
1:29.2	I had no idea. I've been posting about hope lately. And people have been telling me a lot of
1:33.6	negative things in response. That's a nice way to say being like, you're dumb. A couple people have said
1:38.5	that. Who knew hope was so spicy, but it's a little spicy. And I'm going to start this episode with
1:43.9	a story about a friend.
1:46.4	My friend can't be happy until the supply chain is fixed. He just, he's just like, I can't,
1:52.8	I can't be happy. Like, how could you be happy right now with the supply chain the way it is?
1:56.7	I don't, I don't know what that means, but that's okay because neither does he.
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