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Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Charlie Gilkey on How to Start Finishing Projects in Your Life and Go From 'Idea' to Done!

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Erik Fisher

Business, Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.5877 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Charlie Gilkey is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a website that helps changemakers (creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs) start finishing the stuff that matters. Productive Flourishing is routinely placed in the Top 50 websites for planning, productivity, creativity, and team development for creative folk.

Charlie's book 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.

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Square, your favorite neighborhood spots run on Square.

0:05.5

If I opened a little Beyond Beans, coffee, and coaching nook on my block, I'd start with Square.

0:10.9

As you grow, business gets complex. New locations, more customers, real cash flow swings.

0:17.5

Square meets you at every step, building a loyal following, smoothing the finances,

0:21.7

and keeping the day moving. From first sale to second location, it scales with you. Need to

0:28.2

bridge a slow week? Tools to cover cash flow gaps. Want fans who come back? Built in ways to build

0:34.4

loyalty and keep them in the loop. What started as that little white card reader now powers the behind the scene stuff that actually matters, inventory, invoices, and those end of day reconciles.

0:46.3

In short, Square knocks out today's to-dos and unlocks tomorrow's what-ifs so you can focus on the work only you can do. Go to square.com

0:56.6

slash go slash beyond to learn more. That's SQ, that's SQU-A-R-E dot com slash geo slash beyond.

1:07.9

Square, meet you there.

1:29.7

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List.

1:31.0

I'm your host, Eric Fisher.

1:33.9

This is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity.

1:37.8

This week, I'm excited to share with you a conversation I had with Charlie Gilke.

1:46.2

He's the founder of productive flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and change makers take meaningful action on work that matters. And that's exactly what we're talking about in this conversation.

1:51.8

As we talk about his book, Start Finishing, How to Go From Idea to Done.

1:57.6

And as I've mentioned recently, there aren't a lot of productivity books that I point to

2:03.0

and say, that's the next productivity book that you need to read. Recently, I gave a recommendation

2:08.1

for Near A. All's Indistractable. This is the next one. Start finishing from Charlie Gilke.

2:14.0

So you're going to want to pay attention to this conversation and this book as we talk about

2:18.3

selecting projects, figuring out how to fit those projects into the space of your life, starting the

2:24.6

right projects, and much more. This is a great conversation. I'm glad to have Charlie on the show

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