Jon Acuff on Finishing, Fighting Perfectionism and Completing Your Goals
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author. In this conversation Jon talks with Erik about his book Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done about completing goals. Jon also has a new podcast called 'All It Takes Is A Goal'.
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| 1:29.5 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do-List. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm your host, Eric Fisher, and this is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. |
| 1:38.8 | This week we're revisiting a conversation I had with John Acuff on his book, Finish. |
| 1:41.3 | Give yourself the gift of done. |
| 1:46.4 | And if you're unfamiliar with John Acuff, let's just say he is very astute when it comes to observations, when it comes to the workplace, when it comes to career, when it comes |
| 1:51.9 | to starting something, transitioning out of something old and into something new. And so his |
| 1:56.7 | book finish was a natural progression of his work because it talks about setting goals |
| 2:01.4 | and then finishing those goals. It's one thing to start goals, but come on, what we really want |
| 2:06.6 | is to be able to get to the other end of being done, having finished those goals. And that's |
| 2:12.3 | what this book is about and that's what this conversation is about. I've followed John for a long |
| 2:16.3 | time. I've gone to a few |
| 2:17.9 | different conferences where he either was heading it up or spoke at it. We've talked a number of times. |
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