Start Finishing, Charlie Gilkey
Start Finishing, Charlie Gilkey
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Start Finishing
How to Go from Idea to Done

Author: Charlie Gilkey

Narrator: Charlie Gilkey

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2019


Synopsis

Discover a Powerful Nine-Step Method to Start Finishing the Work That Matters Most
 
How much of your time and attention lately has been focused on things that truly matter to you?
 
Most people's honest answer is: not enough.
 
Everyone is buried by busywork, responsibility, distraction, and fatigue.
 
The joy-producing, difference-making ideas are waiting for when the time is right, when the current project is over, when they have a little more money, when the kids are grown, or when they get a more understanding boss. They are waiting for someday.
 
The trouble is someday never comes on its own.
 
Start Finishing presents a nine-step method for converting an idea into a project by addressing the challenges you'll face and getting the project on a reality-based schedule.
 
This audiobook will teach you how to:
 
• Practice the five keys that lead to self-mastery
• Build your success pack of supporters, guides, peers, and beneficiaries
• Keep working through the thrashing that comes with any project that matters to you
• Chunk, link, and sequence your ideas down to doable parts
• Use the Five Project Rule to prioritize your daily schedule and be at peace with the work you choose not to do
• Fly through drag points—how to deal with head trash, no-win scenarios, and other people’s priorities
• Heatmap your schedule so you do the right work at the right time
• Overcome cascades, logjams, and tar pits—the three ways projects routinely get stuck
• Finish strong—celebrate, review, and ride the momentum to your next goal
 
You are not incapable, wired to struggle, or fated to be unable to get your act together. With a few key steps, you can change the way you show up, how you plan, and how you respond when things get tough.
 
You can Start Finishing the work that matters most to you.
 
Includes original contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, Jonathan Fields, James Clear, and many other teachers.
 

About Charlie Gilkey

CHARLIE GILKEY is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and changemakers take meaningful action on work that matters. He is the author of The Small Business Life Cycle, and is widely cited in outlets such as Inc., Time,Forbes, the Guardian, Lifehacker, and more. He’s also an Army veteran and near-PhD in philosophy. He lives in Portland, Oregon. For more, visit productiveflourshing.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kressel on October 24, 2019

Like with all self-help books, I found some of this useful, but most of it too hard to implement. Here's what I liked from it: 1. Procrastination happens to everyone. It doesn't make you defective. It's often an emotional response to something. The author calls it "thrashing," and it's just part of t......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on July 23, 2019

Charlie Gilkey's book, Start Finishing, is the most important one I've read this year for the nonprofit work I do. There are lots of time management tools in the marketplace, but this book gave me models to think through to banish my big creative blocks. My mental blocks hem me in with walls of unfi......more

Goodreads review by Steve on July 17, 2019

My intention for this book was to "read it through once to get the gist of it, and then go back through and implement a chapter at a time..." But the concepts are so intuitive and useful, I couldn't not implement some of them immediately. Charlie mixes tried-and-true concepts of productivity and sche......more

Goodreads review by Cory on July 01, 2019

Start Finishing is the culmination of Charlie Gilkey spending years helping creative people implement productivity habits and techniques into their lives. This book does not disappoint. I have noticed that creative people tend to struggle with productivity systems. They are either too rigid, or not......more

Goodreads review by J Carney on February 20, 2020

This book helped me rethink getting my passion projects done. The most useful part for me is how the book helps identify psychological barriers to finishing the work we truly care about, and proposes solutions that work for our brains, schedules, and health. It isn't about pushing through the pain,......more