Charlie Gilkey on How to Get Things Done

Charlie Gilkey is the author of Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done. An Army veteran and near Ph.D. in philosophy, Charlie is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and change-makers take meaningful action on work matters. He’s widely cited in outlets such as Inc. Magazine, Time, Forbes, The Guardian, Life Hacker, and more and his work will help you discover the path from the ideas in your head to the actions you take in your daily life and how to go about getting things done. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! Charlie Gilkey and I Discuss How to Get Things Done and…

His book, Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done

How kindness towards others often brings out the best in everyone

The Tao Te Ching

Focusing on your input and letting go of the results

We don’t just improve by thinking about things, we improve by doing them

Creative constipation breeds toxicity

We’re either creating something or destroying something

We don’t do ideas, we do projects

How doing our best work is often really hard

The myth: if it’s meant to be for us, it’s supposed to be easy

The myth that if it doesn’t come easy for you, you shouldn’t do it

Doing something until you’re good enough at it to decide whether or not you want to continue doing it

The 5 things that get in the way of doing our best work

Head Trash: Doesn’t matter if a thought is true or not – it matters if we believe it or not

The problem with automatically believing our thoughts

How discipline limits decision fatigue

How action expresses priority

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