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Finish : give yourself the gift of done / Jon Acuff.

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ISBN 9780525533313 (paperback)
9781591847625 (hardback)
Name Acuff, Jonathan M. author
Title Finish : give yourself the gift of done / Jon Acuff.
Published New York, New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2017]
©2017
Description vii, 196 pages ; 22 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196)
Summary Year after year, readers pulled me aside at events and said, "I've never had a problem starting. I've started a million things, but I never finish them. Why can't I finish? According to studies, 92 percent of New Year's reso-lutions fail. You've practically got a better shot at getting into Juilliard to become a ballerina than you do at finishing your goals. For years, I thought my problem was that I didn't try hard enough. So I started getting up earlier. I drank enough energy drinks to kill a horse. I hired a life coach and ate more superfoods. Nothing worked, although I did develop a pretty nice eyelid tremor from all the caffeine. It was like my eye was waving at you, very, very quickly. Then, while leading a thirty-day online course to help people work on their goals, I learned something surprising: The most effective exercises were not those that pushed people to work harder. The ones that got people to the finish line did just the opposite-- they took the pressure off. Why? Because the sneakiest obstacle to meeting your goals is not laziness, but perfectionism. We're our own worst critics, and if it looks like we're not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. That's why we're most likely to quit on day two, the day after perfect, when our results almost always underper­form our aspirations.
Subjects Motivation (Psychology)
Labor productivity
Time management
Job satisfaction
Job stress
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