The resources below were curated to help you finish your best work. Whether it’s inspiration, motivation, or guidance you’re looking for, you’ll find it all here.

• The 10 Pillars of Productive Flourishing

  The ten posts included here are the pillars of Productive Flourishing. You’ll sometimes see them directly showing through other pieces, but other times, they’ll be subtly supporting what you’re reading.

• Bounce Back: Defeat Demotivation

  We've created this ebook for when you’re in a funk, demotivated, or nursing the wounds from a setback. Start with uncomfortable reality of where you might be now, and find ways you can create a better tomorrow.

• Great Connections Lead to Great Ideas

  A lot of creative people think that in order to come up with great ideas, they need to read more or discover some secret sauce. But here's the deal: the easiest way to come up to great ideas is to reach out to your network.

• Living the Good Life

  These 27 posts are some of the crowd and team favorites from the first few years of Productive Flourishing. Get inspired and catch up on some of the best free resources we have.

• Communication Matchmaking

  Discover processes and tools that will help you align your team’s communication styles for effective collaboration, sponsored by Citrix.

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The resources below were curated to help you finish your best work. Whether it’s inspiration, motivation, or guidance you’re looking for, you’ll find it all here.

• Making Plans That Work

  The secret to doing your best work is mastering mid-term planning. Michael Bungay Stanier and I discuss how to master the middle and make plans that actually work.

• How to Turn Your Best Ideas Into Goals and Successful Projects

  How do you go from idea to successfully completed project? Stephen Lahey interviews me about the Start Finishing Action Guide and how to actually starting finishing the projects that matter to you.

• How Business Strategy and the Creative Process Work Together

  Check out my interview with Joanna Penn as we discuss how business strategy related to aspects of the creative life.

• Beyond Perfection: Prolific Prototyping

  This interview is featured in one of Tracking Wonder's Monthly BASS (Business Artists Strategy & Skills) Webinars. Jeffrey Davis (founder of Tracking Wonder) interviews Charlie about prolific prototyping (and thus about experimenting and failing).

• How to Limit the Busyness in Your Business

  Charlie talks with Marissa Bracke, who helps creative entrepreneurs get over the busyness and overwhelm of day-to-day life so they can really focus on their business and creative projects.

• Go Big or Go Home… or Go Deep

  This talk from Andrea Lee's October 2010 event "Wealthy Thought Leader" talks about how you can dig deeper to find what matters to you.

• Developing a Clear Direction in Your Online Business

  This interview with Charlie Poznek and Charlie Gilkey will show you how to align your business systems towards a specific goal, and will give you a rundown on what content marketing and sales is all about.

• The Four Key Dimensions of Business

  Pam Slim and Charlie talk about seasonal energy, the seasons of business, working towards your year-round goal, and so much more.

• Being More Productive and Combating Overwhelm

  Charlie joins Andrea Owen on her podcast "Your Kick-Ass Life" to talk about overwhelm versus overload, why we don’t make time for self-care, and the various ways to block time in order to be more productive.

• Getting Stuff Done vs. Dreaming Stuff Up

  Jeffrey Davis is joined Ishita Gupta and Charlie Gilkey to discuss the formative experiences that led to the productivity systems they use today.

• Finishing the Stuff That Matters

  As an entrepreneur, turning ideas into action is what counts. Charlie joins Michael Knouse on his podcast, where they talk about how to how to channel your time, energy, and attention into finishing the stuff that matters most.

• The Power of Action

  In this podcast with Laura Coe, Charlie and Laura dive deep into the essentials: What does it mean to start something, how do you finish something, how do you get over the perfectionism that stops us in our tracks and what are your actual values, what are the things that are meaningful to you?

• Understanding the Personal Development Corkscrew

  In this episode of The Habit Chef Podcast, Kendra Kinnison talks with Charlie about success, how to live with your values and purpose, and so much more.

• Jamming with Jonathan Fields at the New York Open Center

  Jonathan and Charlie got together to riff on the intersection between thriving, creativity, and getting stuff done.

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Every month, I host a call wherein we talk shop about getting the right stuff done. “Right stuff” could be running your own business, finishing the creative work that matters to you, or figuring out how to find alignment between the different parts of your life you’re wanting to cultivate. Got a problem? Yo, I’ll solve it – and I promise not to play Vanilla Ice while doing it.

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