ATG 283 | The Analyst's Trap: When Reviewing the Past Prevents You From Dreaming the Future
All It Takes Is A Goal
Jon Acuff
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you read my new book, you'll never procrastinate again. I should know, I waited 34 years before I finally wrote my first one. |
| 0:07.8 | When I discovered what's inside these pages, I wrote 11 more. You see, we procrastinators have a storehouse of creativity and energy we haven't tapped into. |
| 0:18.7 | You're sitting on a gold mine right now, and the system to unlock it |
| 0:23.3 | doesn't require a crushing amount of willpower. Life is already preset to hard. Why would we use a system |
| 0:30.9 | that makes it harder? You need something that works on the days you have zero willpower, |
| 0:36.0 | just as well as it does on the days you're at a |
| 0:38.5 | hundred percent because procrastination is the most expensive fear the price tag is your life |
| 0:45.4 | and every day you wait to begin you're stealing from your future self my new book procrastination |
| 0:51.2 | proof is available now and it gives you four simple permissions |
| 0:54.9 | to beat procrastination for good. Pick up your copy today at johnacoff.com slash proof or wherever |
| 1:02.2 | you buy books. Hey everyone and welcome to the all it takes the goal podcast. As from the last 15 years |
| 1:08.0 | helping more than a million people achieve everything from their smallest first step to their wildest dreams. Building a remarkable life is simple. Great |
| 1:15.7 | thoughts turn into great actions. Great actions turn into great results. That's what we explore |
| 1:20.7 | in this podcast. I'm your host John Akoff and today I'm talking to all the analysts who are listening. |
| 1:26.1 | If you love a good post-mortem, |
| 1:28.6 | where others see a finished project, |
| 1:30.7 | you see a learning opportunity |
| 1:31.9 | to really dig in and figure out what actually happened. |
| 1:35.4 | If you have the ability to spot patterns, |
| 1:37.9 | anticipate failure, |
| 1:39.3 | and protect a team from expensive mistakes, |
| 1:43.3 | if that's you, |
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