by Jon Acuff | Mar 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently, I spoke to a group of high schoolers. I asked them to raise their hands if they read blogs. Zero hands went up. I felt like I had asked them if they used the yellow pages. I even made a joke about it saying, “I wish I had a sign in my front yard that...
by Jon Acuff | Mar 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
“I heard a woman on the radio talking about how much she hated you.” This is what a friend told me recently. That’s a weird thing to have happen, isn’t it? I write blogs and books and give speeches. Most of what I do would never be considered...
by Jon Acuff | Mar 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Every day, you get to make a choice about the way you do things. There are a thousand different choices, but all of them really only boil into two options: 1. Be delightful. 2. Be boring. Delight stands out, makes you memorable and breaks the clutter of an over...
by Jon Acuff | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Benedict Cumberbatch + U2 + the theme music to Jaws = Awesome. )
by Jon Acuff | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
To the best of my ability, I try to write my blog posts ahead of time. I try to have them written, scheduled and loaded to go a few weeks before they actually go live. But, sometimes there are topics that are time sensitive that I need to jump on. Case in point, the...
by Jon Acuff | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
People sometimes ask me what my least favorite thing on Twitter is. That’s an easy question and one that I have written about before but people keep doing. I can’t stand when someone retweets a compliment about themselves. Instead of just telling the...