Jon Acuff

Because you know internally, I could have taken this to another level.

And so like...

So for me, the times where I've done a project that I know I could have done differently if I'd put more into it, my desire to talk about it and be proud about it and share about it and post about it diminishes on the other side because I know.

So that's part of why this book is book 11.

If I had written this on book two, it would have been an arrogant young man's guess at procrastination because I didn't know.

I hadn't lived a life that was productive.

But by book 11, I feel good about going,

Hey, I've got this body of work and the way even in my distracted, busy brain that I've been able to do 11 books is because of this type of system.

I think it'll help you too.

I have the confidence of a decade of wrestling these things versus I had an idea about procrastination and six months later, here's a book, you know.

Yeah, I mean, for me, I do love a simple solution.

Even the book, the way we frame the book is 71 short chapters, because as I research procrastination books, I'd read like a 300-page book on procrastination and think, no real procrastinator wrote this.

Like, if you have a 90-page note section in your book about procrastination, you're not a procrastinator.

Like, that's Jane Goodall writing about monkeys.

I'm a monkey writing a book for other monkeys.

So even in the formatting, I was like, no, I want to win constantly.

And I feel like I won when I finish a chapter.

And so permission was what I kept seeing come up when I talked to people like they were waiting for the permission to be who they knew they could be or to do the thing they knew they could do or to go on the venture they knew they were capable of.

And I kept seeing it come up, but I kept seeing people not talk about it.

It's a big word when you're a kid, but it's not a word you really talk about as an adult.