1155: How to Escape the Procrastination Trap and Achieve Your Goals with Jon Acuff

Yeah, so for me, I like to do what I call audition a goal. I think a lot of goals fail because people try to commit to something for a year they've never done for a day. That's like marrying somebody you just met at speed dating. But if you had a goal that was at least a month worth of time, I would say, hey, let's do a one-month audition. Like what if we just tried this thing for 15 minutes a day for 25 of the next 30 days?

That's John Akuff. He's been named one of Inc.'s top 100 leadership speakers and has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to overcome overthinking and finish what matters most. His new book, Procrastination Proof, Never Gets Stuck Again. shares what it really takes to beat procrastination so you can achieve the goals that you've been stalling on. So you'll learn one, why discipline and willpower are not enough to solve procrastination.

Two, how to make tomorrow easy today with simple preparation. And three, how to go from stuck to unstuck in four steps. And if you want a quick summary write up of the actual wisdom that John shared, you can mosey on over to awesomeatyourjob.com to get the free gold nugget email newsletter. I'm Pete McKaidis.

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