S2E159 All It Takes Is a Goal with Jon Acuff
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to fulfill your innate potential but don’t know where to start? In this episode, bestselling author and speaker Jon Acuff outlines a fresh new approach to goals and teaches how you can ditch regret, tap into your full potential and achieve in every area of your life.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· How examining your past can help you set future goals.
· Why turning goals into games encourages motivation.
· Which goal fuels will guarantee sustainable success.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
“All It Takes is a Goal,” by Jon Acuff
S2E153 My Bold Predictions: The Surprising News for 2024
“The War of Art,” by Steven Pressfield
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“It's a good life when the vision of what you know you're capable of and who you were meant to be overlaps with how you're spending your Tuesday.” – Jon Acuff
“The only thing easier in the world than doing a goal is not doing a goal.” – Jon Acuff
“If you tap into the desire, you'll run through a wall. If you don't have the desire, you won't do the smallest task.” – Jon Acuff
“Mastery requires peaks and plateaus.” – Brian Buffini
“You have to bring your own hype. Motivation isn't a checkbox, it's a practice.” – Jon Acuff
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast, where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think, feel and do better. |
| 0:10.0 | In case you missed it, Brian shared his bold predictions for the 2024 real estate market |
| 0:15.6 | and you can head over to it's a good life.com to check it out. |
| 0:19.2 | In the meantime, here's Brian. Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:27.5 | Today we have a very special guest for you. |
| 0:29.5 | A man I've known for about 15 years Mr. John Aikoff |
| 0:33.4 | and John is not only a New York Times best-selling author of nine books by the way |
| 0:37.7 | brilliant, brilliant writer. He's also become one of the most sought-after |
| 0:42.0 | speakers in the country. |
| 0:43.6 | And in fact, we had to work our magic to get him to be one of our keynote speakers at our peak |
| 0:49.4 | experience in Colorado Springs this year. We're celebrating our 20th anniversary of the peak experience. |
| 0:54.7 | We're going to be at the Broadmoor Resort and sold out, packed house, and we are so excited to have John there. |
| 1:01.1 | As we've launched this year, we've been talking about goals. to have |
| 1:03.3 | been talking about goals and John's newest book is called all it takes is a goal |
| 1:08.4 | and it's fantastic it's a three-step plan to ditch regret and tap into your massive potential. |
| 1:14.0 | Sounds like it's made for a befining company audience. |
| 1:17.0 | It's a fresh approach to goals and I've been doing this for almost 30 years and I haven't really seen many fresh approaches. |
| 1:23.0 | This really is one so John we're delighted to have you a brilliant job on the book |
| 1:28.0 | and as a guy who's been teaching goals for 30 years and it's hard to find a new wrinkle and new science. Boy I've seen this and it |
| 1:35.9 | absolutely works this is great stuff so welcome to the show and and congratulations on the |
| 1:41.2 | book. Thank you so much I can't I can't wait to spend time with you a peak experience. |
| 1:45.3 | I think that's going to be amazing. So I feel like I'm getting two gifts. |
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