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Don't climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven't truly earned is a great way to get stuck in the land of Learning for decades, even an entire lifetime. Kick those ladders over and keep on walking. — Jon Acuff

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Choose your attitude every day until eventually it chooses you right back. — Jon Acuff

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People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things. — Jon Acuff

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Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself. — Jon Acuff

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You're just going to be a Starter. The starting line is the only line you completely control. — Jon Acuff

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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. — Jon Acuff

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Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up ... what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God. — Jon Acuff

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God is an early bird; satan is a night owl. Everyone knows that. — Jon Acuff

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We started seeing motion as a sign of success and transition as a sign of progress. — Jon Acuff

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More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It's usually a reunion. — Jon Acuff

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Want a better job right this second? Choose your attitude and adjust your expectations. — Jon Acuff

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Life is dreamed in big leaps and revealed in small steps. — Jon Acuff

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Joy is an incredible alarm clock. It will wake you up and keep you up and pick you up and gently pull you through a thousand rejections along the way. — Jon Acuff

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Awesome writes great books even if no one is going to read them. — Jon Acuff

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They are four words I want you to keep in mind when critic's math gets loud. He wrote, We will miss you. — Jon Acuff

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We - not our company - are responsible for our attitudes. What happens each day at work doesn't get to determine my attitude, I do. Attitude is a decision. And it's a decision we have to make every day, sometimes every hour if that particular day is especially whack. — Jon Acuff

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Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed. — Jon Acuff

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The problem is that "by now" is a phrase we say to ourselves when we're trying to believe the lie that it's too late to start pursuing our dream. — Jon Acuff

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in a 2013 Gallup survey, 70 percent of Americans said they hated their jobs or felt disengaged. — Jon Acuff

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Misery loves company, but company often multiplies your misery. — Jon Acuff

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Real-World Example = Don't constantly complain about the work conditions. (It's too bright, it's too dark, it's too cold, I wish it smelled more like cinnamon.) A simple rule of thumb to remember is, "Unless there's a live cobra in the office, I'll be all right. — Jon Acuff

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Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity."4 — Jon Acuff

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You have the perfect amount of time each day for the things that matter most. The key is spending time on those things. — Jon Acuff

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I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control. — Jon Acuff

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I'm with you, networking is miserable. Whenever I find myself at a dinner party where people are networking I immediately focus on the dog, and if the host doesn't have one, I focus on persuading them to get a dog. — Jon Acuff

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If you're going to risk and maybe fail, fail at something that matters. Fail gloriously so that even in failure, lives change. — Jon Acuff

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(The truth is that real life-change and the joy of being who you are designed to be always results in selflessness, not selfishness.) — Jon Acuff

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The golden watch has become the other end of golden handcuffs. We now look at steady jobs as less of a goal and more of a necessary evil. They aren't fun; they simply fund our lives. — Jon Acuff

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Great lives are very rarely created in great comfort. — Jon Acuff

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That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me. — Jon Acuff

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Billions of people have traveled and continue to travel the other path, and it grows wider every year ... The trouble is that on this wide path, you don't end up at awesome. You just end up at old. This path is called 'average'. — Jon Acuff

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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. - MARCEL PROUST — Jon Acuff

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Complacency is a slow gas leak, not a bomb blast. Like being robbed by a thief in the night who only steals a penny at a time, we awake to find the days have all gone somewhere. Things — Jon Acuff

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I know it sounds crazy, but people with jobs tend to have more creative freedom than people without. — Jon Acuff

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Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future. — Jon Acuff

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You know who we should fire, that guy who keeps learning how to do his job even better," said no one ever. — Jon Acuff

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Regardless of what you want to do or who you are, fear will always see you as wholly unqualified for anything you ever dream or attempt. — Jon Acuff

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We didn't try to force God's hand or do the "I just heard a sermon about David and Goliath so I need to quit my job right this second" leap of faith that's so popular in Christian circles. We took our time with the decision, like another guy in the Bible, named Jesus. He spent thirty years in obscurity before he started his adventure. Often, we're not willing to spend thirty minutes in preparation, never mind thirty years, especially when we come home from a conference and find our day jobs waiting for us on Monday morning. I'm not sure why Christians sometimes think the maturation of our own missions will be radically shorter than that of Jesus. But it happens and in the past I've certainly wanted to take wild, unplanned, possibly-not-inspired-by-God leaps of faith. — Jon Acuff

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The distance between comfortable and comatose is surprisingly short. — Jon Acuff

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I don't want you to wake up at sixty-five and realize, 'I spend forty of my best years doing something that just funded my life. — Jon Acuff

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don't build a park bench if you secretly love Frisbee. — Jon Acuff

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Right now, 80 percent of employers Google you before they bring you in for an interview. — Jon Acuff

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Fear would have told the Wright brothers not to fly. Fear would have told Rosa Parks to change seats. Fear would have told Steve Jobs that people hate touchscreens. — Jon Acuff

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Not because of my words - those are cheap and untrustworthy. But because of my actions, which are expensive and trustworthy. — Jon Acuff

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Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle. — Jon Acuff

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Learning from those before you is a dying art that can catapult you ahead in the land of Mastering. — Jon Acuff

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I learned a simple lesson about being awesome: always play to the size of your heart, not to the size of your audience. Awesome doesn't let the crowd determine the size of the performance. Awesome gets up for two people or 200. Awesome writes great books even if no one is going to read them. Awesome sweeps the parts of store floors that no foot will ever touch. Awesome can't help itself. Awesome has a huge heart. And that's what it always plays to. The size of the crowd doesn't matter. The applause of the audience doesn't matter. — Jon Acuff

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wild talent and a bad attitude eventually lose to mild talent and a good attitude. — Jon Acuff

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You don't need to go back in time to be awesome; you just have to start right now. Regretting that you didn't start earlier is a great distraction from moving on your dream today, and the reality is that today is earlier than tomorrow. — Jon Acuff

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If I miss a goal, which sometimes happens when you set huge ones, I want the reassurance that I did everything I in my power to make it happen. I want the peace in knowing that it wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing under my control was under control. — Jon Acuff

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Conversations, much like Saturday Night Live skits, are often difficult to end. — Jon Acuff

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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

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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

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Instead of chasing "enough," you have to define it. If you chase it, you'll never catch it. Enough is incredibly quick. Much like perfection, it seems to remain out of reach. "As — Jon Acuff

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In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:
1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done. — Jon Acuff

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Day one of our new adventure behind us, we are shocked to learn the hardest lesson of chasing a dream. 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. — Jon Acuff

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Burn your dream bright. Pursue it with the best of who you are. But don't confuse hustle with burnout. Hustle fills you up. Burnout empties you. Hustle renews your energy. Burnout drains it. — Jon Acuff

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A dream you don't have to fight for isn't a dream - it's a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting. — Jon Acuff

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What do you do when all the excuses you used to not chase your dream are gone? What do you do then? — Jon Acuff

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How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, author Michael J. Gelb — Jon Acuff

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90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head. — Jon Acuff

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Chances are, no one is trying to kill you at your current job. If they are, please read a book on Krav Maga, not this one. — Jon Acuff

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Age is no longer the primary factor that determines where you are on the map. Life is now less about how old you are and more about when you decide to live. — Jon Acuff

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As if perhaps joy is acceptable for rare moments on the weekend or surprising glimpses of sunsets while on vacation, but it has no real purpose in the real world. — Jon Acuff

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I'm not a fan of "finding your purpose." I'm a fan of "living with purpose. — Jon Acuff

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I know sometimes it's scary to think that you might do the wrong thing. It's terrifying to imagine wasting your "one shot". But let me assure you, nothing you do will be wasted. Every decision you make, every path you take, has the ability to contribute something you need to succeed at your dream. — Jon Acuff

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No one pursuing a life of average was ever made fun of by other average people. But if you decide to travel the road to awesome, you will be. — Jon Acuff

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If you want help for your dream, start by helping someone else with their dream. If you want support for your hope, start by giving support to someone else's hope. If you want encouragement as you work on your calling, start by encouraging other people. Giving support is often the best way to get it. — Jon Acuff

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You used to believe like that too. You used to turn sticks into swords or dirty flip-flops into glass slippers. You climbed trees and made forts and thought being a doctor wasn't out of reach. Nothing was out of reach. Then, somewhere along the way, you lost it. — Jon Acuff

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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

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Because the truth is, the surprises life gives are always better than the things you think you see coming. Publishing — Jon Acuff

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Intentions are ambitious liars. — Jon Acuff

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I like being a beginner. I like the moment where I look at everyone and say, "I have no idea how to do this, let's figure it out. — Jon Acuff

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You've got today, and today is all you need to start. — Jon Acuff

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People are mistaken when they think chasing your dream is a selfish thing to do. As if perhaps being average is an act of humility. As if perhaps wasting the talents you were given is proof that you're a considerate individual.
It's not. — Jon Acuff

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God found Gideon in a hole.
He found Joseph in a prison.
He found Daniel in a lion's den.
He has a curious habit of showing up in the midst of trouble, not the absence. Where the world sees failure, God sees future.
Next time you feel unqualified to be used by God remember this, he tends to recruit from the pit, not the pedestal. — Jon Acuff

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Don't become a jerk. Don't get lazy. Don't get entitled. — Jon Acuff

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Someone is going to hate what you do. That's not a maybe. That's a definite. And I don't mean dislike. I mean hate. With energy and vitriol and a passion that surprises you. — Jon Acuff

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Quitting a job doesn't jump-start a dream because dreams take planning, purpose, and progress to succeed. That stuff has to happen before you quit your day job. — Jon Acuff

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Scars you refuse to hide can become lighthouses that warn other people who are headed to the same rocks you crashed on. — Jon Acuff

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the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision. — Jon Acuff

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Hustle tries. Then it fails. Then it tries again, because of grit, which is simply being brave when you don't feel like being brave. — Jon Acuff

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Your dream might not be as extreme as Bono's, but like him you may meet yours before you're ready to run after it. — Jon Acuff

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Generosity is always cheaper than greed. — Jon Acuff

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The only reason cavemen painted on walls was they didn't have note cards. — Jon Acuff

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Regardless of your age or station in life, it all comes down to one simple truth: you just have to start. — Jon Acuff

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Real-World Example = Don't schedule meetings that demand high creativity on Friday afternoon at 4:00 P.M. People are creatively empty then and their ideas will be too. — Jon Acuff

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And then you get some jerk for a boss. And you think, 'I wish God was my boss. That would be awesome. He wouldn't care about my sales sheet. He would care about my soul sheet.' Then you feel a little embarrassed because that was such a low-quality joke. — Jon Acuff

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An accountability partner you only contact when you are winning isn't an accountability partner, it's a cheerleader. It's — Jon Acuff