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Apr 2021
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495: Jon Acuff | The Surprising Solution...

Jordan Harbinger
About this episode

Jon Acuff (@jonacuff) is an Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker, host of the All It Takes Is a Goal podcast, and author of multiple bestsellers. His latest book is Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking.

What We Discuss with Jon Acuff:
  • Jon defines a soundtrack as those repetitive thoughts that play automatically in your head that shape more of your choices than you know -- and this is why you need to curate your soundtrack.
  • Three questions to ask yourself if you want to identify a broken soundtrack that derails your ambitions -- and change it into one that goads you into action.
  • How you can flip a worry-inducing soundtrack into one that instills confidence.
  • Being prepared always leads to an action; overthinking always leads to more overthinking.
  • Something better to tell yourself than "Fake it 'til you make it" from the son of the guy who coined that phrase.
  • And much more...

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