How to Create and Achieve Your Goals with Jon Acuff

<p><strong>How to Create and Achieve Your Goals with Jon Acuff</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, our guest is Jon Acuff. He is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his most recent, Soundtracks, The Surprising Solution To Overthinking. For over 20 years, he’s also helped some of the biggest brands tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, and Staples. His fresh perspective on life has allowed him to write for Reader’s Digest, Fast Company, The Harvard Business Review, and Time Magazine. He lives outside Nashville, TN, with his wife Jenny and two teenage daughters.</span></p> <p><strong>[3:57] Why should I listen to you? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think you should listen to anybody, and that's brave enough to start talking. I think many people are interested so whether it's me or somebody else, let’s go…</span></p> <p><strong>[5:28] Did you always have that kind of calm desire?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was a jerk in college, like in senior college, and I got involved in raves like so and so. No, but I wouldn't say that was a good decision. That was not a great period of my life. So no, I think the older I get, the more I go. I want to do a small degree of things I love, not a bunch of things I kind of like, so as I, you know, talk about it, people say they don't have enough time. But you usually have enough time for the small degree of things. It's just that you're spending a lot of time on things you kind of sort of like, so let's narrow that down a little bit so you can really focus.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><strong>[6:15] How did you figure out what you loved? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, a lot of it is self-awareness; you can’t achieve any goal or any sort of accomplishment without a degree of self-awareness. Because if you don't know how you operate, you just continue to make mistakes. An easy example would be that if you don't know you're