Doing and finishing is a lot harder than thinking about and dreaming about, absolutely. And there's this really counter intuitive thing that, like, the more it matters to you, the more you're going to thrash. I don't think we should be using difficulty and challenge as one of those tags to find out if a project is worth doing. You may end up in that place to where your best work flows with ease and grace - but for many of us, actually, it's hard.
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.
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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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