Productivity Expert: Stop Procrastinating on What Matters Most | Jon Acuff

It's giving yourself four specific p permissions in this order. Permission to dream, permission to plan, permission to do, and permission to review. And if you do if you consistently lean into those simple actions, it's almost hard to not be successful. Hey it's green to be back for another episode of the Craig Rochelle Leadership Podcast. If you're new with us, we drop a brand new episode on the first Thursday of each month. What I want you to do is go to CGLP.com. And uh subscribe to the leader guide. I promise you the leader guide has a ton of valuable information to help you. questions to go over with your team and it'll be worth uh your time, I promise. Today's guest, let's go. I'm ready.

John Acoff. The one and only New York Times best selling author of eleven books, one of the um most phenomenal Teachers of leadership around uh Inc. named you one of the top one hundred leadership speakers. Um you've spoken at Microsoft, Walmart, Comedy Central. You'll be again with us this year at the Global Leadership Summit. Can't wait. We've actually got a little uh exercise we're gonna do this year that might be Fun. Yeah, we'll find out soon. Controversial find out soon. Horrific. We'll find out soon. We might talk about that. And uh you are the the host of the podcast.

All it takes is a goal. Uh, congratulations on your new book, Procrastination Proof. Never get stuck again. I'll hold up the book. Did you procrastinate in writing this book at all? I had to make sure it worked first. I I couldn't have written this book at thirty-four. I couldn't this couldn't be my second book because I didn't know if it was true. The subtitle Never Get Stuck Again would have been an arrogant guess, but by book eleven, I feel good about saying Hey, if you do these things, they work. My thing is evidence beats confidence. And so by book eleven. I don't have to question, hey, if you do these things, do you actually get books done? Do you actually succeed at the things you want to do? So did it. It took me a while to build up the evidence before I could write this one. So when people when you're on an airplane and they say, Hi, I'm so and so Um what do you do? What do you say? I say I I write books and then they say what's your most successful, which is always humiliating. Because then you name it and they go, Never heard of it. I don't think you're that successful. That never happens to lawyers. Nobody ever goes,

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