How to Get Unstuck & Finish What Matters | Charlie Gilkey
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to focus and finish what matters most? Learn how to build momentum and transform your identity from idea generator to accomplished doer on this episode with Charlie Gilkey, author of Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done.
Discover why we fail to be productive, then rewire your brain, schedule, and actions to see beyond distractions. Implement "focus blocks" during peak energy times. Make conscious choices to displace low-value activities. Finish a small number of important projects to unlock a compounding effect on your confidence and career. Embrace your natural rhythms and limitations to contribute your gifts, then fully engage your relationships. This conversation provides an operating system to focus your limited time on what's essential.
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| 0:00.0 | Do what matters most and I'm going to focus on the doing if you know that you've been doing a lot of talking and a lot of ideating |
| 0:06.8 | But you haven't been doing a lot of making or doing or leading or whatever your thing is just understand that that gap between the good life you want to live |
| 0:15.3 | and where you are is probably bridged by certain types of doing |
| 0:20.1 | that you have to start doing. So have you ever noticed how hard it's become to focus these days, |
| 0:28.0 | to know it really matters to get out of the stuck zone, |
| 0:32.0 | start building momentum, and actually finish the stuff that is truly important to you. |
| 0:36.4 | It was already pretty hard in before times, and now we might as well just go ahead and 10x that challenge. |
| 0:42.0 | And if you're feeling this you're not alone |
| 0:43.8 | this struggle is real but what if there was a way to quickly figure out what |
| 0:48.8 | matters to focus on that to dislodge that wheel spinning inertia and get on stuck and go from idea to done to |
| 0:55.8 | become a bit of a productivity Jedi. Well that is what we are talking about in |
| 1:00.2 | today's powerful best-of conversation with one of my closest advisors and regular |
| 1:05.0 | collaborator, multi-awardwinning author of the book Start Finishing, and founder of |
| 1:09.6 | productive flourishing, Charlie Gilkey. And we dive into Charlie's specific ideas around why so much of our effort to be productive fails, |
| 1:17.0 | and how to rewire our brains and our schedules and our actions to more easily see beyond all of the distractions and focus in |
| 1:25.5 | on the stuff that we've started choose what really matters what's worth finishing |
| 1:29.8 | and then take immediate action to make it happen. And along the way we also explore how Charlie's really unique background |
| 1:36.2 | as a philosopher, military officer, productivity strategists, |
| 1:39.9 | and consultant to creative professionals, founders, and fast-growth entrepreneurial teams |
| 1:44.6 | has shaped his powerful lens on going from idea to done. |
| 1:48.9 | So excited to share this best-of conversation with you. |
| 1:52.1 | I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. You do anything and everything for your pets. So do we. At vets for pets we've dedicated our lives to them. In the last year we've treated 1.4 |
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