Start Finishing Field Guide
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RELEASE DATE: April 28th, 2022

ABOUT: Productivity Meets Purpose in this workbook. Written as a companion for the award-winning Start Finishing. Get past busy work and embrace bringing your joyful, difference-making ideas to life.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Productivity Meets Purpose in this workbook.

An easy-to-use, step-by-step workbook that supplements Start Finishing by providing the details, how-tos, scenarios, and tools used to finish your most important projects. Whether your projects are work, personal life, or some combination of the two, the Start Finishing Field Guide is your in-depth guide to doing what matters to you.

Inside you'll find a host of companion exercises and worksheets that build upon the core principles in Start Finishing, including:

  • uncover keys to help close the gap between your day-to-day reality and your big goals
  • getting to your best work by choosing an idea that matters to you converting your idea into a doable project
  • building your project roadmap
  • weaving your project into your schedule
  • finishing strong

The Field Guide was written to stand alone or to supplement Start Finishing.

Original illustrations by Cristina Kramp.

ABOUT CHARLIE

Charlie Gilkey helps people start finishing what matters most. He's the author of Team Habits: How Small Actions Lead to Extraordinary Results, the award-winning, critically-acclaimed Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done , Team Habits, and The Small Business Lifecycle, the co-host of The The Productive Flourishing Podcast, and the founder of Productive Flourishing, one of the world's top websites for planning, prioritization, and productivity for creative people.

His work is regularly featured in places like TIME, Inc.com, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Lifehacker, and the Huffington Post. Prior to starting Productive Flourishing, Charlie was an Army Joint Force Military Coordinator and pursuing a PhD in Philosophy.

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The Start Finishing Field Guide is a step-by-step workbook based on principles explained in Start Finishing: How To Go From Idea To Done. Consider it the how companion to Start Finishing's What and Why.

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AWARDS & PRAISE FOR START FINISHING

  • Publishers Weekly Fall 2019 Top 10 Business and Economics Books
  • Book Authority Best New Book in (the categories of) Time Management, Success, Productivity, and Goal Setting
  • Kirkus Reviews Top Indie Book
  • Montaigne Medal Finalist
  • Independent Publisher Book Award 2020: Silver Award for Business/Careers/Sales
  • Eric Hoffer Book Award 2020: Grand Prize

"The author's tone is infectiously upbeat and exceptionally forgiving. The 'grind hard, grind harder, eventually die' attitude on prominent display in so many productivity books is entirely absent in these pages." - Kirkus Reviews

"...a marvelous work that holds up under repeated reading and promises to offer something different with each new perusal of its pages." - The Indie Source

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PLUS! Make sure to link back to: https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/

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#SFFG

#StartFinishingFieldGuide

#CharlieGilkey

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Twitter/X:

Check out the "Start Finishing Field Guide", the latest book from @CharlieGilkey: https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/ #StartFinishingFieldGuide #SFFG

"The Start Finishing Field Guide" will remind you of your potential and show you how to tap into it. You are meant to finish the work that matters the most to you. Good work @CharlieGilkey Get your copy of The Start Finishing Field Guide, https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/ #SFFG

LinkedIn:

We suggest you check out The Start Finishing Field Guide which is an easy-to-use, step-by-step workbook that supplements Start Finishing by providing the details, how-tos, scenarios, and tools used to finish your most important projects. Find out more about it here https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/ @ProductiveFlourishing #SFFG

We are delighted to see our friend Charlie Gilkey, Founder of @ProductiveFllourishing help more and more people cross the finish lines to their goals with the launch of the "Start Finishing Field Guide" https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/ #SFFG 

Facebook:

It's time to learn how to no longer keep things in your head and stop worrying about missing an action item by understanding how to create an airtight workflow that prioritizes and focuses on your most important projects. Therefore, it's the ideal time to begin using the Start Finishing Field Guide, great work @ProductiveFlourishing https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/ #SFFG 

@ProductiveFlourishing has an easy-to-use, step-by-step workbook that supplements Start Finishing by providing the details, how-tos, scenarios, and tools used to finish your most important projects. Whether your projects are work, personal life, or some combination of the two, the Start Finishing Field Guide is your in-depth guide to doing what matters to you. https://www.charliegilkey.com/start-finishing-field-guide/ #SFFG 

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The Start Finishing Field Guide is an easy-to-use, step-by-step workbook with details, how-tos, scenarios, and tools to finish your most important projects. After Start Finishing hit shelves, many readers wanted to know how they could have more prompts, lists, and questions for individual projects. Now the book is no longer a standalone once off, but has a guide. You're more likely to complete a project when you know everything that has to be done. Plan the work, work the plan. Order your copy of the Start Finishing Field Guide today.