Start. Quotes

“Learning from those before you is a dying art that can catapult you ahead in the land of Mastering.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“You will work harder at something you love than at something you like. You will work harder than you have ever worked when you start chasing a dream. You will hustle and grind and sweat and push and pull. You will get up earlier and go to bed later. But that’s okay.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“As you guide, you’re going to disappoint people who want your time or your input or your attendance. And often you won’t be able to give it to them. But it’s okay to disappoint people, as long as you make sure you’re disappointing (and guiding) the right people. The biggest lesson for me was to not say yes to things I am ultimately going to say no to.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“We’ve got enough people on Facebook telling us about their perfect lives. We’ve got more celebrities crafting fictional reality lives than we can possibly stand. What we’re missing is people who, when they fail, say, “This too shall post.” We”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“helping other people better their lives is way more fun than obsessing about bettering your own. Awesome”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“The real tragedy of a one-hit wonder is when someone succeeds once and then never tries again. No matter your circumstances, if you want to be more awesome, you’ve got to start again. That begins in the land of Guiding when you start helping others down the paths they’re on. It continues when you return to the land of Learning with something new of your own to start. Though it may look large at first, the gap between the land of Guiding and the land of Learning is surprisingly small. The”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“The way you pass through the land of Learning is that you try a bunch of things. Fear would love for you to try just one, get discouraged, and then march right back to average. But”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“If you ask fear if something is going to work, the answer will always be no. Fear”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“wild talent and a bad attitude eventually lose to mild talent and a good attitude.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Live with purpose and enjoy a thousand different passions as you continually walk the road to awesome. The”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Purpose is not a final destination. One”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“What if there was a third way? A way to honor all your commitments even while you completely change your life and the world in the process? What”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“You have to be a Starter. And then you have to be brave enough and prepared enough to react when a surprise presents itself. When”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“because the truth is, the surprises life gives are always better than the things you think you see coming. Publishing”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Do you know what fear and doubt fear? Community. One of fear and doubt’s chief aims is to make you feel alone. Like you’re the only one who feels a certain way. Fear wants to isolate you and put you on an island. As long as you keep your fear to yourself, no one can tell you the truth about it.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“When a parent, a boss, a teacher, a spouse, or a friend tells you what you can’t be, they’re predicting a future they don’t control.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Awesome is a lot simpler than you think, because you used to know awesome quite well. Everyone”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“The only thing you have to do on the average path is not die. You”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“the surprises life gives are always better than the things you think you see coming.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“your perception does truly fuel your reality—the”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Ask any honest sage if they were an expert at something the first time they tried it, and they’ll giggle and probably give you a caramel.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Hard work pays off, new thought by @jonacuff,”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Don’t become a jerk. Don’t get lazy. Don’t get entitled.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Want to be more awesome at whatever it is you’ve chosen to master? Find your version of rehab—somewhere you can practice being awesome.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“It’s never too late to start. “It’s too late” is a lie that will stay with you if you let it. So don’t.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“How did I get here? How did I get to 72 with so few of my dreams ever acted on? How did I get here?”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“Rather than edit our lives, i.e., start to make decisions, we cloud our path and pretend there’s a fog of complexity in the way.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“It’s impossible to accurately predict the finish. Part of the reason it’s so difficult is that the path often radically changes by the time we get to the end. That’s certainly been the case in my own life.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“If you’re 52 and embarking on a new career because your job (and maybe your entire industry) disappeared, you’ve returned to your 20s. It’s time to start.”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters

“SWORD stood for: Serve Worship Order Rest Dance”
― Jon Acuff, Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work That Matters