Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

by Jon Acuff

Some readers have already felt uncomfortable with this chapter because they think the opposite of perfectionism is failure. It’s not. The opposite is finished.

Thiis is what i need to get into my head!

Perfectionism also messes us up by making us aim too high.

We’ve now bumped into the second lie of perfectionism: Your goal should be bigger.

Those two approaches, cutting the goal in half or doubling the timeline, can be applied to most goals.

The only way to accomplish a new goal is to feed it your most valuable resource: time. And what we never like to admit is that you don’t just give time to something, you take it from something else. To be good at one thing you have to be bad at something else. Perfectionism’s third lie is: You can do it all. I’m here to tell you that you can’t.

keep in mind that the shortcut isn’t “find something fun”; the shortcut is “make it fun if you want it done.”

pick which form of motivation you need the most and then add it to as many parts of the project as possible.

That’s all data is. A gift from yesterday that you receive today to make tomorrow better.

When you ignore data, you embrace denial.

Data kills denial, which prevents disaster. But only if you’ll listen to it.