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Give Yourself the Gift of Done

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Written by: Jon Acuff
Narrated by: Jon Acuff
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 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 resolutions 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.

The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But they’re based on studies conducted by a university researcher with hundreds of participants. You might not guess that having more fun, eliminating your secret rules, and choosing something to bomb intentionally works. But the data says otherwise. People who have fun are 43 percent more successful! Imagine if your diet, guitar playing, or small business was 43 percent more suc­cessful just by following a few simple principles.

If you’re tired of being a chronic starter and want to become a consistent finisher, you have two options: You can continue to beat yourself up and try harder, since this time that will work. Or you can give yourself the gift of done. Careers Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Success Self-Help Success
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Loved the funny stories and anecdotes! I got a lot more value and insights than I expected!

Practical, Funny, Useful as hell!

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Glad I swapped by monthly credit for this one. The contents are Enjoyable and workable. Hope to re-listen frequently....

Insightful and Practical

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Liked the book, it showed why we suck at finishing.
it talked about diffrent methods which can be used to overcome problem of not finishing.
1. Use data for your progress it will motivate and show how far you have reached.
2. Devide start in measurable sub task.
3. Keep the distractions away.
4. avoid another awesome idea until you finish what's in hand currently.

Done is better than perfect.

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This is such an easy book to listen to. The author is clearly passionate about what he is speaking about. The concepts are presented in such an easy-going, fun manner that it's very easy to miss important points as they come along. Hence, I'd recommend listening multiple times in order to identify the principles listed down in the book. For the same reason, it would have been so much better if a "cheat-sheet" of the main principles could have been made available by Audible along with the audiobook. There is so much detail & action-points in the book that if you really plan to implement whatever the book talks about, you'll have to buy the book as well.

Fun book with practical, real-life advice

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if the gains of not finishing a task outweighs the gains you receive by finishing a task then this book might be useless for you.

The science of getting things done - Amazing Book

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