How to Stop Procrastinating with Jon Acuff
The Alli Worthington Show
Alli Worthington
4.9 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But here's where hustlers get stuck. |
| 0:01.8 | Hustlers, the first thing they do is they jump from Dream right over plan. They don't even plan for a second. They launch right for like a rocket right from Dream into doing. They're already going. They're already going. They go, hey, I've already registered that URL. I've announced the event. We haven't talked about anything. Like, I know, I'm already taking money for it. It's going to be great. Like you go, where are we going to hold it? |
| 0:22.4 | I don't know, I'm already taking money for it. It's going to be great. Like, you go, where are we going to hold it? |
| 0:22.6 | I don't know, but people are already excited. |
| 0:24.6 | Tons of energy, tons of effort, often in the wrong direction. |
| 0:29.6 | And not, like, they see planning as the enemy where it's actually your best friend, if you look at it the right way. |
| 0:35.6 | Like, planning actually helps you |
| 0:37.7 | multiply your speed, but it feels like a deterrent. |
| 0:48.1 | Hey, hey, my guest today is a friend of the show, and every single time he's on, everybody loves |
| 0:53.6 | him. It is the one and only |
| 0:55.4 | John Acuff. Back again, he's in New York Times bestselling author, a speaker, and one of the |
| 1:00.2 | funniest human beings in the world. Today, he's going to show us what procrastination actually |
| 1:05.2 | looks like, and it's not necessarily what we think. What does it look like for someone who already gets a lot done? |
| 1:12.6 | What does it look like if we think we're burn out? What does it look like in a lot of different |
| 1:17.2 | circumstances and how we get past it? And he's going to tell us why the thing you keep almost |
| 1:22.4 | starting is costing you more than you realize. And finally, what to do to stop circling and start moving. |
| 1:29.4 | This is full of great information. |
| 1:31.7 | You're going to want to listen twice. |
| 1:33.1 | But before we dive in, I want to tell you. |
| 1:37.5 | Okay, let's get started with my friend John, the one, the only, the favorite of the Allie Worthington show audience, John Acuff. Welcome back to the show. I'll take favorite. Let's go. I've been on here a lot of times. I should get a jacket or something. Unfortunately for you, our jackets are satin with script stitching. And you've met my wife. She's probably not going to let me wear that. She's not. You're going to say, that's really not the look. I'm trying to cultivate for you right now, |
| 2:04.4 | John Inka. Okay, procrastination. That's your latest topic. How did you know, as a writer, |
| 2:12.9 | procrastination is next? What did that look like for you? Well, I like to write about two things, mindset and goals, |
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