Bob Goff - Your Big Ambitions Plus a Quarter Twist Can Do More Good

Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Derrick Kinney

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Derrick Kinney interviews best-selling author Bob Goff on pursuing your big dreams so you can do more good in the world. Bob is the champion of helping others achieve their dreams. He shares the beliefs that have made him successful in business and in life and how he is using his success to do more good. Sometimes a small shift produces big results.

What You Will Learn:

We don’t have to play a role in everyone else’s story
How to shift your mindset around difficult people and how to interact with them
Encourages you to not only look for opportunities that you are capable of doing but discovering what you were created to do
Slowing down and saying ‘no’ can lead to a more fulfilling and powerful ‘yes’
How to audit your life with these 3 questions:
- What do you want?
- Why do you want it?
- What are you going to do about it?
The importance of reopening the door to your past and broken relationships
Most of us want to feel: love, purpose, connection, and authenticity
Wave the flag and let people know what you want and need
How to share three minutes of authenticity with the ones you love
Move your ambitions and dreams into action, but don’t tie up your identity in those actions
Continue to be participants, not just in things that work, but in things that last
Bob shares some of his biggest failures and why he continues to dream big
Identify and understand your underlying limiting beliefs and create a roadmap for overcoming them
Why Bob gives himself three epic fails a year and why you should too

Inspirational Quotes:

“Displace frustration with an attitude of gratefulness” - Bob Goff
“Make the pivot, make the switch, quit your job!” - Bob Goff
“Memorize your family, go back, get a magnifying glass, and memorize the thumbprint of the people you love the most.” - Bob Goff
“Authenticity comes from running home to the people you love.” - Bob Goff
“We can be so stuck looking through the rearview mirror that we don’t look through the windshield.” - Bob Goff
“Be who you are, where you are, right now.” - Derrick Kinney
“Fail trying, don’t fail watching.” - Bob Goff

Recommended Resources:

Bob Goff’s newest book, Dream Big
5 Ways Your Resentment of Money is Ruining the World (free download).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the good money, good hands, good work podcast, where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it.
0:14.0	Good money in the hands of good people gets good work done.
0:17.0	I'm your host Derek Kenny.
0:19.0	Do you ever wish you had the courage to step out and pursue your big dream so that you could do more
0:25.1	good in the world. The papers in his desk say Bob Goff is a lawyer. If you know him, you
0:31.6	know he is much more than the paper say.
0:34.0	Bob has done a lot of crazy world-changing things.
0:37.5	Perhaps what I admire most is that Bob is the champion
0:41.0	of helping others achieve their dreams.
0:43.6	In our conversation, Bob shares his beliefs
0:46.7	that have made him successful in business and in life
0:49.9	and how he is using his success to do more good.
0:53.2	He also points out that sometimes we can make a small shift that can produce big results,
0:59.8	like when an airline made a 45 degree difference in their business strategy that saved them a billion dollars.
1:06.7	Get ready to be inspired, encouraged, and challenged by my conversation with Bob Gaugh.
1:13.0	Bob, welcome to the show.
1:15.0	Hey, thanks a one, glad to be with you.
1:17.0	Well, Bob, we've been excited to have you on the show for quite a while and we're going to cover a lot of ground so let's jump right in.
1:24.0	Bob you have written about some of your amazing experiences and a theme I've observed is the importance you place
1:29.9	on open communication and really bringing people together.
1:33.8	Why is that important to you and how have you done that?
1:37.0	Well I think that if we're talking at each other we're not going to make as much progress
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