#228: 6 Secrets to Finishing What You Start with Jon Acuff

Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield

Amy Porterfield

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Even the most vigilant goal-setters have been know to stumble when approaching the finish line, but my guest today, Jon Acuff - entrepreneur, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and popular speaker, has cracked the code on how to SIGNIFICANTLY increase your chances of FINISHING what you start, and you’re going to be pleasantly surprised to hear how to make it happen.

In writing his most recent book Finish: Give Yourself The Gift of Done, Jon commissioned a study where nearly 900 people were studied for six months to figure out what really works and what doesn’t when it comes to being able to finish what you start.

Jon breaks his findings down in six areas with an overriding theme of embracing imperfection (ugh! This is gonna be hard for some of us...)

"Developing tolerance for imperfection is the key factor in turning chronic starters into consistent finishers." - Jon Acuff

Here are the six secrets to finishing what you start that Jon divulges on the podcast today:

SECRET 1: Cut your goal in half
SECRET 2: Choose what to bomb
SECRET 3: Make it fun!
SECRET 4: Leave your hiding places and ignore noble obstacles...
SECRET 5: Get rid of your secret rules
SECRET 6: Use data to celebrate your imperfect progress

So, f you’re about to start something or you’ve got a list of half-done projects that you’d like to finish - don’t wait another minute - listen to my conversation with Jon right away.

This episode is sponsored by my free master class, “How to Confidently Create Your First Profitable Course in 60 Days” If you’ve been thinking about creating an online course, or if you’ve had a course idea for awhile but you are just not sure how to get started, this free master class is for you. Click here to sign up.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the online marketing made easy podcast episode number 228
0:07.6	Welcome to the online marketing made easy podcast business advice so easy you'll feel like you're cheating and now your host
0:15.8	Amy Porterfield
0:26.3	Hey there welcome back to another episode of the online marketing made easy podcast
0:31.4	I'm your host Amy Porterfield and I'm so glad you're here now today we are talking about an important topic
0:38.7	How to get to the finish line?
0:42.0	I think it's so important as entrepreneurs that we talk about all these open loops that we have in the fact that
0:49.1	Sometimes we get distracted sometimes we make excuses or sometimes huge boulders get in the way of us
0:56.0	Actually completing what we started, but I do believe one of the secrets to my success is that I
1:04.2	Definitely finish like I get it done now
1:07.9	I haven't always been a finisher and today's episode where we talked to John A. Cuff about all of the secrets that will help us to get to that finish line
1:17.3	Many of them I've applied to my own business and my own life in order to get there and many of them
1:23.4	I still need to work on and so of course I'm a work in progress as I'm sure you are as well
1:28.6	So I think you're gonna find some great value in today's episode
1:32.8	But before we get there I love hearing from all of you guys and
1:38.0	You guys that sounds so California to me, but it's where I was born and raised so what do you expect?
1:42.9	But I'd love to hear from all of you and today's shout out is from Lacey Bussey who left me an encouraging comment in my online
1:50.6	Marketing made easy podcast Facebook group. Did you know I had a Facebook group for my podcast listeners?
1:57.4	It's a lot of fun. I do these impromptu two-minute videos introducing each new episode and
2:03.4	I post them in the group and there's a lot of great conversation around the episodes and if you never want to miss an episode
2:09.8	This is a great way to get notified on Facebook and so I'll link to the online marketing made easy
2:15.8	Facebook group in the show notes, but you can search for it on Facebook as well
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