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Productivity Meets Purpose―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.
The joy-producing, difference-making ideas are always waiting―for when the time is right, when the current project is over, when there is a little more money. Those ideas are waiting for someday. The trouble is someday never comes on its own.
Start Finishing provides a system for transforming your ideas into projects and shows you how to address the challenges you face by giving each project the time, energy, and attention it needs.
The book will teach you how to:
• Engage the Five Projects 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
• Overcome cascades, logjams, and tarpits―the three ways projects routinely get stuck
• Chunk, link, and sequence your ideas down to doable parts
• Heatmap your schedule so you do the right work at the right time
• Build your success pack of supporters, guides, peers, and beneficiaries
• Finish strong―celebrate, review, and ride the momentum to your next goal
Start finishing your best work and create your future, one completed project at a time.
Start Finishing received critical acclaim from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Review, and awards with Independent Book Awards. It also won the cross-category Grand Prize from the esteemed Eric Hoffer Book Award in 2020.
* Includes original contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, Jonathan Fields, James Clear, and many other teachers.
Publisher : Sounds True (Feb. 15 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1683648633
ISBN-13 : 978-1683648635
Item weight : 322 g
Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.73 x 22.86 cm
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Erika –
Something to come back to over and over
This is such a helpful book for anyone wanting to actually finish their projects. It teaches you how to break down projects into manageable chunks, and how to sequence them, and use timeblocking to get serious momentum on things that matter. Highly recommended reading.
StackedJava –
So far so good
I’m only half way through. Nice writing style. I can see this methodology helping some people. It’s not the way I do things though. Look, any and all methodologies will work. You need to execute. When you stop executing, any methodology will fail.
Stephanie –
Une ressource fantastique!!!
Ce livre devrait être lu et mis en pratique par toute personne voulant prendre le contrôle de son présent et de son avenir. Bien structuré, avec une façon très claire de présenter les sujets. C’est très motivant à lire et donne le goût de passer à l’action! Je le recommande vivement!!!
Nathalie G –
Good foundation
I’m recommending this book for newbies to find out about the things you have to know and to seasoned professionals to be reminded of the basics (that we tend to forget).
jmk –
The title says it
I really appreciate Charlie’s work! Makes me think!
Amazon Customer –
Start Finishing
The book was an extremely difficult read as it seemed to go on and on without giving any real-world advice.
gilkar31 –
I found the book as a good sumup of several methods, pragmatic and clearely understandable. This makes it actionable for an entrepreneur
Commenter007 –
I’m giving this a 5 star because it’s an excellent book, I’ve read through it and am already returning to it. I’ve also decided to re-read it so I really cement what I’ve learned, and I rarely choose to do that.I’m a classic starter who never finishes, so the book is aimed directly at me. And for the first time in my life, I feel optimistic I will finish some of the ideas I’ve worked on that the book describes as the stuff that nags you – the stuff you want to do, even need to do, but constantly put asside for the stuff you have to do.Here’s the thing though. True to type, I nearly didn’t finish the book. It’s hard going. The reason is that it’s addressing something complex and it’s comprehensive. But also – while I understand Gilkey has used a simple language that helped me greatly, it ends up confusing at times. I struggled with clumping chunks for example. The language is not managed as well as it could be from chapter to chapter either. Terms were mentioned for example – like ‘the snowball method’ – before they were explained, as though I should already be familiar with them. I also found I needed to remind myself what things meant when encountered two chapters after being introduced. There is no index at the end of the book to help with this problem. I’ve ended up with lots of small stickers referencing pages where something is explained. The contents list at the front would benefit from page numbers for each item listed – that might help where the index is missing. All this contributes to it being hard work, it does not lessen the value of the information though. So be prepared to study and you’ll be glad you did.It’s definitely a book I would recommend. I think it’s the best I’ve read for developing a way to get your ideas to the finishing line.
Fernando –
Contiene mucha teoría y demasiadas analogías, a mi opinión le falta mucha representación gráfica para los conceptos, sin embargo su contenido es de mucho valor.Recomendado para alguien que no siente el valor real del tiempo.
Pavithra –
A book which sheds light on the practical doable aspects on finishing something you want to! Enjoyed reading it, started incorporating some pointers as in the book. Thanks Gilkey for the amazing work!
SM –
I have read hundreds and hundreds of self-help/productivity books. The ones that promise to make you smarter/faster/better and have dazzling white teeth. They’re okay. Lots of stuff you can extract and apply to your own life if you work at it, but oftentimes seem to be written by dudes with zero complications in their lives, like, idk, families.I was excited to receive a galley of this book, so I dug right into it. Then, I stalled out at pg 52 for *over a month*. That’s where Gilkey says “Look, if it takes you 5 years to accomplish anything really significant, minus your current age from 85, then divide by 5. That’s how many significant projects you can accomplish.”Dear reader, this triggered a midlife crisis. I’m 33, and have already notice that my rate of ‘accomplishment’ is slowing down. I’m used to achieving things every year or two. But now that I’m not just dabbling, now that I’ve found the place I want to be and I’m digging deep to accomplish it, things are slow going. Oh, they’re satisfying. That’s why I’m here. But it was one of those surreal photozooms in a weird movie that transports you all the way to the end of the road, and, suddenly, faced with that inevitability, I panicked. “That’s it!? That’s all I get?”Luckily I have a lot of accomplished friends, so I shared the quote and my feelings about it. The younger ones were on my side. We were all in either the bargaining stage, or denial. ‘Well, I’ll just get really good at this, and do more” or “I don’t believe it. Nothing is stopping me from doing more than one big project at at time.”(The thing is, I’ve followed Gilkey’s work for at least a decade now. The man organized supplies and convoys in the military. He groks the constraints of complexity, throughput, and sequencing the way only a person with several hundred people’s lives on the line can do. If he says five years of focused effort, give or take, is what it takes, I swallow my bile and agree.)Interestingly, the older people I showed this to were very chill about it. Some of them weren’t much older than me, but they said things like “Only 7 things? That seems very doable.” For them, the hard limits made a well-defined scope and allowed them to relax into the challenge. And them doing so, gave me the template to do the same.After that long dark night of the soul, I devoured the rest of the book. Gilkey straddles the line between the high-level vision that is necessary to motivate most people and balances it with piles of tactical advice to keep them from getting bogged down when the rubber meets the road. I still need practice with switching planning “horizons” in order to correctly plot out my time. The cheat sheets he includes, showing how different words *imply* a particular timeline. His advice about deciding what projects and what *parts* of projects it’s acceptable to have just ‘mediocre success’ was insanely helpful to me– I might be a little Type A in that regard, but everything can’t be equally important. Probably the most challenging (but ultimately most effective) advice will be to recruit your “success pack.” It’s one thing to say “I’m going for this” to myself, but to others? The problem with Charlie Gilkey is that he’s so **reasonable**. You know you have no good reason not to do these things, but you don’t want to do them just because it would make you show up brighter than you think you’re ready for. Like most things, reading this book won’t make you actually do anything if you aren’t prepared to make changes. But Gilkey does a good job of presenting even the most challenging suggestions as reasonable and not-that-hard.Anyway, five stars for making me actually think and maybe even grow as a person. But that’s just me thrashing 🙂