Ep 042: Bob Goff with Jason Jaggard

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Bob Goff is living his life to the fullest. He is a lawyer, diplomat, best-selling author, speaker, coach, founder of schools in war zones and an advocate for living an authentic life of love. In this episode, Bob explores the intentionality that allows him to live his full life, illustrated with his signature humor and storytelling. This insightful conversation with Jason Jaggard explores how to find your next opportunity, to create guardrails in your schedule, to find wise people to build into your life and create spontaneous moments with highly intentional practices.

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Bob Goff

Love Does

Bob Goff is the New York Times Best-Selling Author of Love Does, Honorary Consul to the Republic of Uganda, and an attorney who founded Love Does- a nonprofit human rights organization operating in Uganda, India, Nepal, Iraq and Somalia. He's a lover of balloons, cake pops and helping people pursue their big dreams. Bob's greatest ambitions in life are to love others, do stuff, and most importantly hold hands with his wife Sweet Maria Goff and spend time with their amazing kids. For more see BobGoff.com and LoveDoes.org.

Jason Jaggard

Novus Global

Jason Jaggard is an entrepreneur, author, executive coach and speaker. His work has been translated into over 50 languages and has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Magazine. He is the founder of Novus Global, an executive coaching firm working with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, elected officials and some of the most famous entertainers on earth. He also co-founded and is on the faculty of The Meta Performance Institute, which helps coaches create six figure practices serving high performing leaders and teams. His next book, Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know about How the Best Get Better is out this May, 2023.

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SUMMARY:

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Your next move is probably where your opportunities, ambitions and your capablilties meet.
Some of us are limited by our capabilities.
People who seem to have incredible opportunities are often just going after things.
I put a high value on availability. People don’t follow vision, they follow availability.
My ambition is to take a genuine interest in people.
Think less about career and more about character.
I developed the capacity to love by being around people who loved me even when I messed up.
Find a couple of really safe people to share your life with—Switzerland people. You know they’re Switzerland when they don’t try to fix you.
You can find beautiful guardrails that serve your life with intentionality: appointments, phone, text messages.
Sometimes the things that look like reckless abandon are actually super intentional.
If your team knows what you want, they will know what to do.
Pause with the people you work with long enough to say, “What’s your big ambition?”
I send myself 150 emails every day. Then I review them the next day. I take the insights I heard, check them against Scripture and organize them by topic. I have 1.6 million words organized by topic.
Wise people :
- Look to the horizon but are present in where they are right now
- Are super intentional
- Mind their tongue
- Brag about people behind their backs
- Surround themselves with prompts that remind them about important truths
You are beloved. You are not the sum of your successes and mistakes. Own that you are enough. God sees who we’re turning into.
I keep asking God for big things and he keeps dropping beautiful friends into my life.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS:

Bob Goff encouraged us to take one insight and to implement it into our lives. Think back on his conversation with Jason. Which insight would you most like to implement today?
What structures/guardrails would you need to change to become intentional in implementing that insight into your life?