Jon Acuff's Start

Finished reading this book and really enjoyed it.  Some of my favorite takeaways:

• When a parent, a boss, a teacher, a spouse, or a friend tells you what you can’t be, they’re predicting a future they don’t control.  They don’t know what 25 or 35 or 55 looks like for you.
• Luck is a word people who are lazy use to describe people who are hustling.  If you ever taste it in your mouth, spit it out as fast as you can.
• Nobody gets up early on the road to average.  Nobody stays up late on the road to average.  You can sleep in to your heart’s content or watch late-night TV until the infomercials begin to make perfect sense.  Either way, you’re safe on the road to average.
• No one ever survives a plane crash and then says, “really made me want to watch more television.  When your life flashes before your eyes, you start to realize how you’ve been taking shows about cake for granted.”
• The temptation is to spend more time on promoting what you’re doing instead of practicing what you’re doing.  Mastering your skills, putting in the hours to become great, working hard while no one is watching. 
• People don’t like working with jerks.  They don’t listen to jerks.  People don’t do favors for jerks.  Because people don’t want jerks to win.
• Helping other people better their lives is way more fun than obsessing about bettering your own.