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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

520: How to Get Unstuck and Start Finishing with Charlie Gilkey

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Gilkey discusses how to deal with the obstacles that derail your important projects


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The magic number for projects. 

2) Signs that a project truly matters to you. 

3) When and how to say no to your family, friends, and bosses. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep520 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT CHARLIE — 

Charlie Gilkey is an author, entrepreneur, philosopher, Army veteran, and renowned productivity expert. Founder of Productive Flourishing, Gilkey helps professional creatives, leaders, and changemakers take meaningful action on work that matters. His new book is Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done.

• Charlie’s book: Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

• Charlie’s book site: StartFinishingBook.com

• Charlie’s website: ProductiveFlourishing.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McChitis.

0:19.2

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 520

0:21.8

with Charlie Gilkey.

0:22.9

Charlie is sharing how to get unstuck and start finishing projects.

0:27.2

So all learned one, the magic number for projects,

0:29.7

two signs that a project truly matters to you,

0:32.3

and three, win and how to say no to your

0:34.4

family friends and bosses. You can find the show notes, the transcript and the

0:38.0

links to items we've referenced at awesome at your job.com slash F-520

0:42.5

or just expand the episode notes or description in your podcast

0:45.4

app player and view the notes that way.

0:47.8

Here's Charlie Story.

0:48.8

Charlie Gilkey is an author, entrepreneur and philosopher, army veteran,

0:52.4

and renowned productivity expert.

0:54.4

He's the founder of productive flourishing,

0:56.4

and Charlie helps professional creatives,

0:58.8

leaders, and change makers take meaningful action

1:01.3

on work that matters. His latest book is called Start Finishing

1:04.6

How to Go From Idea to Done. Big thanks to Charlie for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to

1:09.5

our sponsors. Check them out. Now here's Charlie.

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