Jon Acuff - NY Times Bestselling Author on having goals, ditching regret and tapping into our potential
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Jon Acuff is a speaker, entrepreneur, podcast host and a New York Times bestselling author with his books “Do Over” and “Start.” Acuff is also an Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker.
His latest book, "All It takes Is a Goal" releases September 12.
Today on the podcast, Jade McCarthy talks to Jon Acuff about his new book, the importance of having goals, ditching regret and the importance of tapping into our full potential.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. We got a great conversation today with John Acuff, New York Times best selling author. And I mean a great conversation. We're going to talk about setting goals, practicing positivity. We're going to talk about the growing, being in the going, self-awareness as a superpower. There's so much good nuggets here with this conversation with John Acuff. |
| 0:25.2 | John's one of my favorite authors. |
| 0:26.7 | He's written the book, Finish, Do Over, Quitter. |
| 0:30.1 | He even wrote a book way back when called Stuff Christians Like. |
| 0:33.5 | This is his ninth book, New York Times bestselling author. |
| 0:37.2 | The last book he wrote |
| 0:38.5 | Soundtracks released back in 2021, and he's got this new book that we're going to tell you |
| 0:43.7 | about in a minute. I'm just really excited for you to hear this conversation. Jade McCarthy |
| 0:49.5 | actually pinch hitting for me today to do this interview with John Aikoff. And let me just promise you when |
| 0:55.6 | you're listening to it, if you have your note section on your phone opened up or you got a pen in a |
| 1:00.5 | paper, this is the interview to just write down all sorts of good nuggets that you're going to want |
| 1:05.7 | to take away with you as you continue on your journey. So you're going to love this conversation with John Acuff. |
| 1:12.1 | The New York Times bestselling author. |
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