Charlie Gilkey

Productivity Meets Purpose—Discover a Powerful 9-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 9-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. The 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.

How to Go from Idea to Done

Start Finishing

DISCOVER SMALL, TEAM-BASED CHANGES THAT HAVE COMPANY-WIDE RESULTS. The teams we work in amplify our individual efforts, yet we constantly struggle to accomplish what is possible. You can see all the problems in a typical weekly meeting. No planning. Missing goals. Muddled communication. We think just bringing our personal hopes and desires will be enough. It’s not. The groups we work in need collective habits as much as individuals need better personal habits. Determining team habits for things like planning, decision-making, and prioritization produce reliability and ease for everyone. Team habits create better work and let people work better together. In Team Habits, Charlie Gilkey explains how the revolution in personal habits has an even greater potential when applied to teams. With practical exercises, a Team Habits Quiz to evaluate areas for improvement, and a guide to create a team habits roadmap, Team Habits will help you transform your group so team members can flourish and thrive. If changing the smallest habit can yield powerful results for an individual, then just imagine what it can do for your team.

How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results

Team Habits

'A thoughtful and inspiring guide for anyone who wants to take their team to the next level' Chris Hirst, author of No Bullsh*t Leadership 'A practical, ethical and actionable roadmap ... This is the modern business handbook that should sit on every founder's desk.' Pamela Slim, author of Body of Work and The Widest Net 'Filled with information and ideas you can take action on ' - Jeremie Miller, Executive Director of RAFT We all know how important our habits are for personal productivity, success and happiness. But the truth is that we rarely work alone: reaching our goals depends on how effectively we work with others, and teams have their own habits that can help - or hinder - success. Here, productivity and teamwork expert Charlie Gilkey shows how to cultivate, implement and maintain the small habits that lead to big results for any team. No matter our job title or role, we all influence the people we work with, and the culture that we create: how we schedule meetings is a team habit, as is the way we cc, bcc or Slack each other, communicate our availability, set our boundaries and structure our days. They can make the difference between teamwork that feels like a struggle, and collaboration that empowers everyone to deliver their best. Starting with the Team Habits Quiz, and full of clear, applicable takeaways on everything from communication to morale to creating a sense of belonging, this book is essential reading for anyone who works in a team and wants to get further, together.

Start Finishing provides a system for transforming your ideas into finished projects. Here you’ll learn to focus your effort, identify drag points and pitfalls, build a pack of supporters, and end with momentum to start finishing the life-changing projects that create the future you want to live in.

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