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Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
Thriving in your life is more than just getting things done if the things getting done aren’t your best work.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
We don’t want to do any more projects. We don’t want to set any more goals or plans. We’re full and fed up.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
We may do this because we have the wrong people on our team and we’re thus afraid to be vulnerable enough to express our wants, needs, and dreams. In other cases, we do it because we don’t actually know what our true wants, needs, and dreams are and we’re waiting for inspiration to find us. In the meantime, people are following their own course and
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There’s an abundance of smart, compassionate people with ideas worth finishing and ample know-how who can’t get momentum on those ideas for the simple reason that their courage is lacking.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
AVOIDING YOUR BEST WORK LEADS TO CREATIVE CONSTIPATION
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
You don’t find time and space for your best work—you make time and space
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
By project I mean anything that takes time, energy, and attention to complete. There’s no difference between a work project or a personal project when it comes to pulling from the limited time, energy, and attention we have.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
The discipline to show up every day, stick to the schedule, and do the work — especially when you don’t feel like it — is so valuable that it’s literally all you need to become better 99 percent of the time.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
every day. One day turns into three. Ten. Six weeks. Soon we’re someone who just does that; we think things are impossible. Our brain knows and sets its needle to No Risk.