by Jon Acuff | Dec 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
My wife gave my parents a digital frame pre-loaded with a thousand photos of our family for Christmas. In order to load the photos she had to spend a few days going through our digital archives. As I looked over her shoulder during the process, a pattern emerged....
by Jon Acuff | Dec 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Today, the Acuff family will be writing thank you notes. Why? Because we’re an amazing family prone to doing beautiful family activities like this. We make a big bowl of popcorn, put on some positive music and then have a fancy gratitude party. We’ll...
by Jon Acuff | Dec 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
There are four types of non-fiction books in the world. 1. The books you buy but don’t read. 2. The books you read but don’t finish. 3. The books you finish but don’t engage with. 4. The books you engage with. Most people are like me. They have...
by Jon Acuff | Dec 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
The only way to find your voice is to write. Only fear doesn’t tell you that. Fear tells you that you shouldn’t write until you have your voice figured out. Fear tells you that other writers all know their voices perfectly. Other writers have well sculpted...
by Jon Acuff | Dec 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently I sent a business contact an email. I immediately received his automatic response which informed me that he would be on vacation until January 5th. I thought to myself, “That must be awesome to take that much vacation. I wish I could do that!”...