Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff (English) Paperback Book

Description: Finish by Jon Acuff From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, the perfect book for anyone who starts a million projects but rarely makes it to the finish line.#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! Jon Acuff, New York Times best-selling author of Do Over, Quitter, and Start, offers strategies for anyone whos ever wondered, "Why cant I finish what I started?"According to studies, 92 percent of New Years resolutions fail. Youve practically got a better shot at getting into Juilliard to become a ballerina than you do at finishing your goals.For years, I thought my problem was that I didnt try hard enough. So I started getting up earlier. I drank enough energy drinks to kill a horse. I hired a life coach and ate more superfoods. Nothing worked, although I did develop a pretty nice eyelid tremor from all the caffeine. It was like my eye was waving at you, very, very quickly.Then, while leading a thirty-day online course to help people work on their goals, I learned something surprising- The most effective exercises were not those that pushed people to work harder. The ones that got people to the finish line did just the opposite- they took the pressure off.Why? Because the sneakiest obstacle to meeting your goals is not laziness, but perfectionism. Were our own worst critics, and if it looks like were not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. Thats why were most likely to quit on day two, "the day after perfect"-when our results almost always underper-form our aspirations.The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But theyre based on studies conducted by a university researcher with hundreds of participants. You might not guess that having more fun, eliminating your secret rules, and choosing something to bomb intentionally works. But the data says otherwise. People who have fun are 43 percent more successful! Imagine if your diet, guitar playing, or small business was 43 percent more suc-cessful just by following a few simple principles.If youre tired of being a chronic starter and want to become a consistent finisher, you have two options- You can continue to beat yourself up and try harder, since this time that will work. Or you can give yourself the gift of done. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jon Acuff is the New York Times-bestselling author ofStart, Quitter, and Do Over, among other books. He is a popular public speaker, blogger, Tweeter, and the creator of the "30 Days of Hustle" online challenge. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Jenny, and their two daughters. Review "When it comes to personal achievement, theres a fine line between tragedy and comedy. No one beats Jon Acuff at helping me laugh at my foibles while offering me help to overcome them. If you want to master the art of finishing, read this book!" -Michael Hyatt, USA Today bestselling author of Living Forward "Are you haunted by the ghosts of unfinished goals? I never met an idea I didnt like, so I know all about the excitement of starting and the difficulty of finishing. Fortunately, the ever-entertaining Jon Acuff has come to the rescue in this terrific new book. Finish identifies the many ways we sabotage our own progress and gives us powerful tools to get er done. Read Jons book, apply its wisdom, and I guarantee youll cross your personal finish line—laughing all the way." -Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager© and One Minute Mentoring "Jon Acuff is speaking the preferred language of all great leaders- get things done! If you want to stand out today, then its imperative for you to be a finisher, and Jon has provided a practical, inspiring, and seamless roadmap for moving things across the finish line. Finish is an instant classic!" -Brad Lomenick, author of H3 Leadership "When youre a leader, one of your biggest hopes is that your team will finish its goals. But with thousands of distractions, it gets harder and harder every year. This book goes a long way to fixing that problem. I predict that organizations will buy this by the box!" -Reggie Joiner, CEO and founder of The reThink Group "As a musician and now pastor, I know the challenges of writing songs and sermons. This book shows us all not only how to finish, but how to finish well. My friend Jon has a way of making the impossible seem practical." -Montell Jordan, author of This is How We Do It "As an author, I know how challenging it is to finish. That last chapter is always a challenge, but the tips Jon provides in his new book make it a lot easier. If youve got something you want done, read this book!" -Andy Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Travelers Gift & The Noticer "Finish is the ultimate kick in the pants you always knew you needed." -Claire Diaz-Ortiz, author and entrepreneur, ClaireDiazOrtiz.com"The world is littered with half-finished books, almost started businesses and nearly done diets. Who knew the secret was to have more fun, kill the hidden rules you live by, and embrace imperfection? Jon Acuff did and youre about to as well." -Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art "I love Jons counterintuitive advice! Its wisdom disguised as stand-up comedy, like eating a bag of jelly beans and somehow ending up smarter." –Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup and host of Side Hustle School podcast "When youre ready to finish the things you really care about, this is the book that will show you exactly how to do that." –Scott Hamilton, Olympic gold medalist, figure skating, cancer survivor "Read this magical book, let it work its spell on you, and finally finish the darn thing youve quit a dozen times before." –Brian Koppelman, co-creator and executive producer of Billions "As a chronic self-starter-but-not-finisher, every word of this book met me right where Im at." –Mandy Hale, author and creator of @TheSingleWoman "This is the book Ive been waiting for Jon Acuff to write: a guide to a better life, not one filled with trying harder but one where we actually complete the things we begin. I needed this book twenty years ago." –Jeff Goins, author of The Art of Work and Real Artists Dont Starve "WARNING: If you want to continue to live blissfully in a world where you keep putting off making any real change in your life or work, do not read Finish. Jon Acuff offers wit, humor, and, best of all, understanding, solidifying his spot as my favorite business author." –Lindsay Teague Moreno, author of Getting Noticed Promotional From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, the perfect book for anyone who starts a million projects but rarely makes it to the finish line. Review Quote "When it comes to personal achievement, theres a fine line between tragedy and comedy. No one beats Jon Acuff at helping me laugh at my foibles while offering me help to overcome them. If you want to master the art of finishing, read this book!" -Michael Hyatt , USA Today bestselling author of Living Forward "Are you haunted by the ghosts of unfinished goals? I never met an idea I didnt like, so I know all about the excitement of starting and the difficulty of finishing. Fortunately, the ever-entertaining Jon Acuff has come to the rescue in this terrific new book. Finish identifies the many ways we sabotage our own progress and gives us powerful tools to get er done. Read Jons book, apply its wisdom, and I guarantee youll cross your personal finish line--laughing all the way." -Ken Blanchard , coauthor of The New One Minute Manager Promotional "Headline" From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, the perfect book for anyone who starts a million projects but rarely makes it to the finish line. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 The Day After Perfect "Well begun is half done" is one of my favorite false motivational statements. The other is "Sometimes you have to jump off the cliff and grow your wings on the way down." I saw that one on a photo of a wolf, which was puzzling because in my limited understanding of the animal kingdom, no wolf has ever grown wings. Thank goodness they havent. If wolves ever figure out the mechanics of flight, its game over. We tend to put too much emphasis on beginnings. In doing so, we miss the single day that wrecks more goals than any other. For the first forty-one years of my life I didnt even hear anyone mention this day. I was as clueless as the fictitious people who still live at the beach where Jaws was filmed. There shouldnt have been a Jaws 2. That movie should have just been called A Bunch of Seaside Residents Move to Ohio, Where There Are No Sharks. Thats probably not going to fit on a marquee, but at least they would have avoided another shark-related disaster. Despite all the work we put into planning our goals, despite the new sneakers and diets and business plans, we miss the day that matters most, the day that is why Im not allowed to buy black beans at Costco anymore. The store will let me, its not a management decision, although I do abuse those free samples. One day they were giving out Oreos, for the seven Americans who have never experienced that cookie. The conversation with the employee handing them out was awkward because I felt like I had to pretend Id never heard of them. "What do you call this? A chocolate cookie sandwich? No? The name is Oreo? Am I saying that correctly? How whimsical!" The reason I cant buy black beans is that they only sell them in pallet quantity. You cant just buy one, you have to buy a thousand cans. Thats a lot of beans, but at least once a year I believe I need this amount. While exercising, I decide to "get serious." I remember that in Timothy Ferrisss book The 4-Hour Body, he recommends a simple breakfast of eggs, black beans, spinach, cumin, and salsa. When my family sees me rooting around the cupboard for black beans, they all groan. "Oh no, here we go again." They know that for the next twelve days in a row I am going to eat black beans. Why only twelve? Because on Day 13 Im going to get too busy, have a meeting, or be on a business trip without my traveling beans. Upon missing one day, I will quit the whole endeavor. Once the streak is broken, I cant pick it back up. My record is no longer perfect so I quit altogether. This is a surprisingly common reaction to mistakes. If you interview people about why they quit their goals, they all use similar language. "I fell behind and couldnt get back on track." "Life got in the way and my plans got derailed." "The project jumped the tracks and got too messy to fix." The words might be different, but theyre all saying the redundant same thing: "When it stopped being perfect, I stopped, too." You missed one day of your diet and then decided the whole thing was dumb. You were too busy to write one morning and so you put your unfinished book back on the shelf. You lost one receipt and then gave up on your entire budget for the month. Im not picking on you for giving in to perfectionism. Ive fallen to it many times as well. One February, I ran seventy-five miles. Then I ran seventy-one in March and seventy-three in April. Know how much I ran in May? Eight miles. Can you guess Junes total? Three. Why? Because when my perfect exercise streak hit a roadblock I stopped. This is the first lie that perfectionism tells you about goals: Quit if it isnt perfect. The genius in this first lie is subtle. Its not "when" it isnt perfect, because that hints at the reality that it wont be. No, perfectionism tells you "if" it isnt perfect, as if you have the chance to run the whole rack and go to the grave with a 100 percent on your tombstone. This is troubling to us, because we dont want Bs and Cs when weve got a goal. We want straight As, especially if its a goal weve thought about for any amount of time. We will gladly give up the whole thing when we discover some error or imperfection in our performance. More than that, we will even prequit, before weve even begun. Thats why a lot of people wont start a new goal. Theyd rather get a zero than a fifty. They believe perfect is the only standard, and if they cant hit it they wont even take the first step. A dreary sense of "Whats the use?" settles about them like a thick fog. I cant fail if I dont try. While researching this book, I asked a thousand people in an online poll if they had ever refused to even write down an idea because they judged it as not good enough. I thought maybe I was the only one who had a perfectionism filter that sorted ideas before they were allowed to hit a piece of paper. More than 97 percent of the participants said they had done that. I dont know how to tell you this, but your goal will not be perfect. It crushes me to break this to you, but you will fail. Maybe a lot. Maybe right out of the gate. You might even trip over the starting line. Thats OK. Why? Why would I encourage you to embrace imperfection? Well, for one thing, doing something imperfectly wont kill you. We think it will, which is why we compare our lack of progress to a train crash. "I couldnt get back on track, my plans got derailed." A train derailment is a significant, serious accident. In many cases, people die, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage occurs, and fixing it takes days if not weeks. Do you know what doesnt happen when you miss a day of your goal? Any of those things. No one dies. It doesnt require $400,000 to get back on track. Righting things doesnt take four weeks. Second, developing tolerance for imperfection is the key factor in turning chronic starters into consistent finishers. Chronic starters quit the day after perfect. Whats the use? The streak is over. Better to wallow in the mistake. I ate a crazy dinner last night, might as well eat a crazy breakfast, lunch, and dinner today, too. "Might as well" is one of the most dangerous phrases in the English language. Or Polish, since for some reason my books tend to get translated into that language before Spanish. I am killing it in Krakow. "Might as well" is never applied to good things. Its never, "Might as well help all these orphans," or "Might as well plant something healthy in this community garden." Its usually the white flag of surrender. "Ive had a single French fry, might as well eat a thousand." These are the kinds of things we say on the day after perfect, and that day is sticky. Do you know the biggest day for people to drop out of the 30 Days of Hustle goal-setting course? Most people guess Day 23 or Day 15, but thats not even close. Day 2 is when I see the largest drop-off. Thats right, the biggest day for the most people to stop opening the e-mails that constitute the exercises is Day 2. Why that day? Because imperfection doesnt take long to show up. Youve sat at your desk on a Monday morning before and thought, "Its nine a.m. How am I already this far behind? How is this entire week already ruined?" Imperfection is fast, and when it arrives we usually quit. Thats why the day after perfect is so important. This is the make-or-break day for every goal. This is the day after you skipped the jog. This is the day after you failed to get up early. This is the day after you decided the serving size for a whole box of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is one. The day after perfect is what separates finishers from starters. Accomplishing a goal is a lot less like taking a train across country and a lot more like driving a bumper car. Some days, you will circle the track without a single impediment. Nothing will stand in your way, and for a few brief moments that bumper car will actually feel fast. On other days, some completely unforeseen, impossible-to-account-for situation is going to slam into your side. Or youll get locked into a really annoying cluster of other cars and feel like youve taken five steps back. This is going to happen. You will not be perfect, but do you know whats even more important than perfection? Do you know what will serve you far longer than perfectionism ever could? Moving forward imperfectly. Reject the idea that the day after perfect means youve failed. Thats just not true. You get to try again. Today, tomorrow, next week. Unfortunately, perfectionism dies slowly. Its persistent and particularly dangerous because it masquerades as excellence. Some readers have already felt uncomfortable with this chapter because they think the opposite of perfectionism is failure. Its not. The opposite is finished. Those are the doors we stand before in this book and in our lives. One is marked finished and leads to untold adventures, opportunities, and stories. One is marked perfectionism and leads to a solid brick wall of frustration, shame, and incomplete hopes. The worst part of this whole situation is that starting goals and never completing them feels terrible. When you make a goal, you make a promise to yourself. Youre going to lose a few pounds. Youre going to declutter a Details ISBN0525537317 Pages 208 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Year 2018 ISBN-10 0525537317 ISBN-13 9780525537311 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-12-04 Imprint Portfolio Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 650.1 Author Jon Acuff Short Title Finish Language English Subtitle Give Yourself the Gift of Done US Release Date 2018-12-04 UK Release Date 2018-12-04 Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-12-14 AU Release Date 2018-12-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:121789451;

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