# Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done - Hardcover

by **Charlie Gilkey** (Author)

**Awards for _Start Finishing_:**  
\- **_Publishers Weekly_** **Fall 2019 Top 10 Business and Economics Books**  
\- **Book Authority Best New Book in (the categories of) Time Management, Success, Productivity, and Goal Setting**  
\- **_Kirkus Reviews_** **Top Indie Book**  
\- **Montaigne Medal Finalist  
**\- **Independent Publisher Book Award 2020: Silver Award for Business/Careers/Sales**  
\- **Eric Hoffer Book Award 2020: Grand Prize**

**Productivity Meets Purpose--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 critically acclaimed book 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 tarpits--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._

### Author Biography

**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 internationally known as a thought leader on productivity, planning, strategy, and leadership for creative people. Charlie 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. For more, visit productiveflourishing.com.

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 9.1 x 7.6 IN

**Publication Date:** September 24, 2019

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- **Price:** 24.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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