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141 " You are never more creative for new ideas than when you are almost done with an old one. “What’s next” will always look more interesting than “what’s now. "
― Jon Acuff , Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
142 " Kids are a crisis. They’re a beautiful crisis, but they’re a crisis nonetheless. No one tells you this because they want you to have kids, too, so that the species survives. You don’t realize it when you’re in the middle of it either. Your only goal is to crawl across the finish line of an early bedtime and live to see another day. "
143 " You’ve got some secret rules that make it really difficult for you to finish. "
144 " Here are twenty-three things you can keep track of: "
145 " The less that people aimed for perfect, the more productive they became. "
146 " You’ve got to have fun, cut your goal in half, choose what things you’ll bomb, and a few other actions you won’t see coming at first. "
147 " Want to learn how to be dedicated and focused on your dream? Practice being dedicated and focused at work. "
― Jon Acuff , Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job
148 " Want to give your dream the best shot of success? Learn how to be successful at work. "
149 " The distance between comfortable and comatose is surprisingly short. "
― Jon Acuff , Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
150 " According to studies, 92 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. "
151 " You don’t ask the bottomless, “What do I want to do with my life?” but instead, “What have I done in my life that I loved doing? "
152 " 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
153 " But though 100 percent start, only 8 percent finish. "
154 " I like that because so often developing our dream job is less about grand balls at grand castles and more about bringing lunch. It’s a process of doing small but necessary things, over and over again, and letting the momentum build, instead of getting decked out by a fairy godmother and being escorted to prominence in a blinged-out carriage. "
155 " ¿tu objetivo es alejar un fracaso o atraer una victoria?14 "
156 " One day they were giving out Oreos, for the seven Americans who have never experienced that cookie. The conversation with the employee handing them out was awkward because I felt like I had to pretend I’d never heard of them. “What do you call this? A chocolate cookie sandwich? No? The name is ‘Oreo’? Am I saying that correctly? How whimsical!” The reason I can’t buy black beans is that they only sell them in pallet quantity. You can’t just buy one, you have to buy a thousand cans. That’s a lot of beans, but at least once a year I believe I need this amount. "
157 " Sometimes you have to jump off the cliff and grow your wings on the way down. "
158 " When you go for it, you don’t escape fear, you land in it. Fear is not a dragon to be slain once, it’s an ocean to be swum daily. "
159 " Don’t become a jerk. Don’t get lazy. Don’t get entitled. "
160 " Hustle isn’t just doing the things you love all the time. Hustle is doing the things you don’t enjoy sometimes to earn the right to do the things you love.” She "