Embrace who you are and stop trying to be someone else! Discover the transformative '11-Minute Rule' that can help you push through resistance in your work. The host shares personal stories about self-acceptance and the journey to recognizing your true strengths. Learn how to overcome discomfort and unlock your creative flow. By swimming with your current rather than against it, life becomes significantly easier!
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Accept Your True Self
Realize you are who you are, not raw material for some grand transformation.
Accepting your natural traits makes life easier as you stop swimming against your current.
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Ease Comes With Flow
Life gets easier when you stop fighting your nature and go with your current.
Like a bird riding air currents or a fish swimming the Gulf Stream, flow brings joy and ease.
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Overcoming Resistance With 11 Minutes
John Acuff avoided writing a video script for his Finished journal project for weeks despite loving writing and notebooks.
After pushing through 11 minutes, he began enjoying the work and produced focused minutes beyond that.
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In 'Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done', Jon Acuff addresses the common struggle of not completing what one starts. He identifies perfectionism as the primary barrier to achieving goals and provides counterintuitive strategies to overcome it. Acuff suggests cutting goals in half to make them more achievable, eliminating secret rules that hinder progress, and emphasizing the importance of having fun in the process, which he argues can increase success by 43%. The book offers insights and practical advice on managing perfectionist tendencies, avoiding procrastination, and maintaining a focus on completion rather than perfection[1][3][4].
All It Takes Is a Goal
Jon Acuff
Jon Acuff's "All It Takes Is a Goal" provides a practical and insightful approach to goal setting, emphasizing the importance of setting the right goals and developing strategies to achieve them. Acuff challenges readers to move beyond vague aspirations and create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. He offers a step-by-step process for defining goals, breaking them down into manageable steps, and staying motivated throughout the process. The book also addresses common obstacles to goal achievement, such as procrastination and self-doubt, providing readers with tools and techniques to overcome these challenges. It's a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their goal-setting skills and achieve their aspirations.
Soundtracks
The Surprising Solution to Overthinking
Jon Acuff
In 'Soundtracks,' Jon Acuff explores how overthinking hinders our potential and offers a proven plan to change overthinking from a problem into a superpower. The book introduces the concept of 'soundtracks' as the repetitive thoughts that shape our perceptions. Acuff provides practical strategies, such as creating personalized playlists of empowering soundtracks and using daily affirmations, to replace negative thoughts with positive ones. He emphasizes the importance of controlling our thoughts and gathering evidence to support positive thinking. The book is based on a study involving 10,000 participants and offers tools to help readers rewire their thought processes and achieve their goals.
In this episode, I share my revelation about accepting who you are instead of constantly trying to transform into someone else. I'll also tell you about my Phoenix epiphany, where I discovered that pushing through just 11 minutes of resistance unlocks flow in the work you're meant to do. Life gets easier when you stop swimming against your current.
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