Finish by Jon Acuff

Finish by Jon Acuff

#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Jon Acuff, New York Times best-selling author of Do Over, Quitter, and Start, offers strategies for anyone who's ever wondered, Why can't I finish what I started?

According to studies, 92 percent of New Year's resolutions fail. You've 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 didn't 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. We're our own worst critics, and if it looks like we're not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. That's why we're most likely to quit on day two, the day after perfect--when our results almost always underper­form our aspirations.

The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But they're 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 suc­cessful just by following a few simple principles.

If you're 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.

Acuff, Jon: - Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including his most recent Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. He's an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and speaks 50 times a year to audiences around the world ranging in size from 500 to 8,000 people. His large and highly engaged social media following includes nearly 300,000 Twitter followers, more than 175,000 Facebook followers, more than 100,000 Instagram followers, and more than 90,000 email subscribers who look to him for his unique blend of humor, honesty, and hope. He lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two teenage daughters.

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ISBN 13	9781591847625
ISBN 10	1591847621
Titel	Finish
Autor	Jon Acuff
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-09-12
Seitenanzahl	208
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