What Jon Acuff Taught Our Team About Procrastination and Progress
Our team spent part of our staff meeting this week learning from author and speaker Jon Acuff, and the timing couldn’t have been better.
His opening session was titled: Why Resolutions Fail: Procrastination is a Mindset Issue.
The first stat hit hard:
The biggest drop-off in gym attendance from New Year’s resolutions isn’t February.
It’s the second Friday of January.
They literally call it Quitter’s Day.
Then came the bigger reality checks:
• 92% of New Year’s resolutions fail.
• 96% of people say they are not living up to their full potential.
Jon reframed procrastination in a way that stuck with our whole team:
You are the most persuasive person you’ve ever met.
Before every bad decision you’ve ever made, you first talked yourself into it.
On average, procrastination costs individuals 33 days of productivity every year.
Not because we lack tools.
Not because we lack information.
But because we believe the wrong story in the moment.
His core point was simple and uncomfortable:
Procrastination isn’t a time issue. It’s a mindset issue.
And if that’s true, it means progress doesn’t start with better calendars…
It starts with better thinking.
This was just session one. More insights to come.