Give Yourself the Gift of Done: Jon Acuff

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

With the new year comes new pressure to CHANGE. OUR. LIVES. This is the year we’re finally going to lose the weight, finish the project, clean out ALL the closets. Time after time, so many of us find life gets in the way. And when we can’t attain the lofty goals we set for ourselves, we feel like failures. Jon Acuff joins the show to give us permission to finish, even if we only get part of the way there. Jon is the New York Times bestselling author of 6 books, including Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done (which just conveniently came out in paperback!). Today he reveals how we can be honest about our goals and kinder to ourselves, even when our efforts come up short of our expectations—or where we perceive others are. Jon and Jen talk about why the pursuit of perfection can be the biggest hurdle to “getting it done,” and how cutting goals in half raises our chance for success through the roof. Jon reveals we might need more than a year to get some things done (What? Resolution sacrilege!) and shows we’re really NOT wired to do it all, despite what others’ social media pages may depict. And with that realization alone, life becomes much more enjoyable.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For The Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to counts, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.1	Hey everybody, Jen Hatmaker is here and I am your host of The For The Love Podcast.
0:26.2	Welcome to the show you guys.
0:28.2	So right now we're in a series called For The Love of Good Change.
0:32.0	So look, it's not the normal, like new year, new you business.
0:37.0	I'm so not into that.
0:38.4	Like if I'm going to make a change, I wanted to come from a place of intention, not shame.
0:44.6	So in this series, I'm talking to experts who come alongside of us in numerous ways to
0:51.3	help us examine our thoughts and behaviors and help us shape the way we look at ourselves
0:55.6	and interact with the world.
0:57.8	Every single guest I've talked to has lit a fire under me in the best possible way.
1:03.4	I cannot say this enough.
1:04.7	If you've not listened to this series, I beg you to go back, start with the beginning and
1:08.8	listen to the whole thing.
1:11.4	Really phenomenal conversations, combating this horrible idea of do better and be better
1:17.5	and try harder.
1:18.5	There's just no shame in this at all.
1:21.4	It's very like healthy and productive and nurturing.
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