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Give Yourself the Gift of Done

Jon Acuff
Portfolio, 2017

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Setting new goals is easy, but finishing them is hard. In this blockbuster bestseller, blogger and popular speaker Jon Acuff shares his plans to help you actually achieve your goals. Acuff explains that perfectionism, the main blockade to reaching your objectives, delivers a negative message: the lie that something isn’t worth doing unless it’s perfect. People also fail to reach their goals because they set targets that are too ambitious. Acuff advises cutting your goal in half, breaking it down into smaller, more achievable chunks. He also advocates doubling your timeline, choosing how you will fail and making your goals enjoyable. You’re more likely to finish tasks that are fun, exciting and easy. Acuff goes off on long tangents, but his stories remain funny and relatable. getAbstract recommends his guidance as a helping hand for everyone who ever sought to complete a goal and just fell short.

Take-Aways

  • In general, people respond to two types of motivation: reward and fear.
  • Perfectionism keeps people from finishing their goals.
  • Most people quit as soon as life interferes or things get too tough.

About the Author

Jon Acuff, a New York Times best-selling author, and a public speaker and blogger, also wrote Start, Quitter and Do Over.

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    J. M. 7 months ago
    Good course
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    T. R. 1 year ago
    Win
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    N. M. 4 years ago
    A good insight for me was that perfectionism can show up in camouflage. Having read that I now completely recognize it in my own behavior. That's something new for me to work with.