by Jon Acuff | Mar 11, 2019 | Finish
To be honest, the two sentences I am about to share are very slippery. They are the types of sentences that you learn, carry around for a few weeks or even a few months, but then forget. They fall right out of your head and a year later you bump back into them and...
by Jon Acuff | Feb 11, 2019 | Finish
A few years ago, I was walking to the stage to speak at an event. I saw this on the ground and stopped dead in my tracks. It might just look like tape at first, but this it’s actually a lot more than that. This is the decision you have to make every day if you’re...
by Jon Acuff | Jan 22, 2019 | Finish
One of the voices of doubt I hear whenever I sit down to work is this: “You don’t have enough time.” Sometimes, that morphs into, “It’s too late.” Or, “You’re too busy to get anything done.” Occasionally it even transforms into, “By now you should have been further...
by Jon Acuff | Jan 10, 2019 | Finish
I recently had dinner with a friend who owns a business. He told me that in his space, there’s a temptation for young business owners to pretend they have big businesses. He said, “You can see it happen on Instagram. They scale up their staff beyond what they need....
by Jon Acuff | Jan 3, 2019 | Finish
If you and I sat down for coffee and you asked me for 3-5 of the biggest lessons I’ve learned about finishing things over the years, here’s what I’d probably talk to you about: 1. How to pick the right goal to finish. (The wrong goal is really distracting.) 2....
by Jon Acuff | Jan 1, 2019 | Finish
For 10 years, I told anyone who would listen that I was going to do comedy someday. I didn’t know how. I didn’t know when. I didn’t know where. All I knew was why. I love to make people laugh. But, I was terrified of it. That happens sometimes when you run from...