ATG 271 | You Don't Have to Be the Smartest Person in the Room, Just the Bravest: 3 Soundtracks for Entrepreneurs

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Being an entrepreneur is challenging, which is why you need the right mindset soundtracks. In this episode, I'm sharing three powerful soundtracks from my entrepreneur card deck that will help you build and scale your business. You'll discover why relationships get you the first opportunity but skills get you the second (and why you need both), how to balance the optimism required for dreaming with the realism needed for planning, and why you don't have to be the smartest person in the room i...

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0:00.0	If you read my new book, you will never procrastinate again. I should know. I waited 34 years before I finally wrote my first one. When I discovered what's inside these pages, I wrote 11 more. Here's the thing. Procrastination isn't a laziness problem, so hard work won't fix it. You need a completely different system. One that works on
0:22.5	the days you have zero willpower, just as well as it works on the days you're firing at 100%. That's
0:29.7	what my new book, Procrastination Proof, give you. Four simple permissions that turn someday into
0:35.7	two day. Because procrastination is the most expensive fear.
0:39.9	The price tag is your life. And every day you wait to begin, you're stealing from your future
0:46.7	self. Right now, when you pre-order, you get $97 in free bonuses, a personalized procrastination profile assessment, the full audio
0:56.7	book for free, read by me, and eight chapters delivered to your inbox immediately so that you
1:03.2	can start reading today. Go to John Acuff.com slash go. That's J-O-N-A-C-U-F-F-com to pre-order and claim your bonuses before April 14.
1:15.7	It's available wherever you buy books.
1:18.1	Johnacob.com slash go.
1:21.1	Hey, everyone, and welcome to the All It Takes is a Goal podcast.
1:24.8	I've spent the last 15 years helping more than a million people
1:28.1	achieve everything from their smallest first step to their wildest dreams. Building a remarkable
1:33.5	life is actually simple. Great thoughts turn into great actions. Great actions turn into great
1:40.0	results. That's what we explore on this podcast. I'm your host, John Aikoff, and today we're talking
1:46.2	about soundtracks for entrepreneurs. If you're an entrepreneur, you are going to love this episode.
1:59.7	Today is going to be a fun episode because it's part three and a five-part series.
2:04.6	If you haven't heard the other two, don't worry. These are standalone. They're linear in the
2:09.6	sense they go one by one by one by one by one, but you don't need to have heard one and
2:14.2	two to get number three. They're all stand-alone. So if you want to go back and listen to them
2:18.8	last week and the week before, you've got two other episodes. Today's episode, we're going to cover
2:25.0	a special card deck for entrepreneurs. So if you haven't heard the other episodes, here's the
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