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  • Start More than You Can Finish

  • A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas
  • By: Becky Blades
  • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
  • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary

Master the art of the start with this new way of thinking, with exercises to help you unleash your ideas and create more.

In Start More Than You Can Finish, writer, artist, and entrepreneur Becky Blades offers a powerful new mindset for our modern world: acting on more ideas makes us happier—and reveals our highest creativity. She empowers listeners to become "stARTists"—initiators with a bias for action and the courage to ignite ideas—and introduces the concept of "stARTistry," spotlighting the 4-step changemaking process we all use to subconsciously start:

  1. Imagine
  2. Think
  3. Decide
  4. Act

Using digestible data, humorous and honest personal experience, interviews with artists and entrepreneurs, and assignments to help you get started, Start More Than You Can Finish challenges the tropes our dads, moms, and third-grade teachers told us about finishing. In today's world, we must, in fact, start more than we can finish.

FOR LISTENERS OF: Start, Do Work That Matters, Show Your Work!, Do It For Yourself, and The Creative Curve

A BOOK FOR RISING CREATORS: A guilt-free guide for procrastinators to know it's okay to start and not finish their projects. With unlimited outlets for creativity, everyone today can be a creator. A plucky non-fiction creative muse, Start More Than You Can Finish is Austin Kleon meets Elizabeth Gilbert and Julia Cameron meets Daniel Pink.

AN INTRODUCTION TO stARTistry: Get familiar with the 4-step changemaking process that moves creators towards starting. Reminiscent of NaNoWriMo (No Plot, No Problem) and Listography.

ESTABLISHED AUTHOR: Becky Blades speaks regularly on the topic of creativity as a speaker and consultant and she has written articles for Oprah.com, Scary Mommy, and others.

GIFT + SELF PURCHASE: A great gift for a friend or family member who's stuck thinking they don't have time to start . . . including yourself. Discover your start to a new project or idea.

Perfect for:

  • Fans of Austin Kleon, Elizabeth Gilbert, Julia Cameron, Daniel Pink
  • Creators struggling to begin a new project
  • Artists and entrepreneurs looking for creative inspiration
  • Adults searching for a creative spark
  • People with passion projects in mind who might not know how to start
©2022 Becky Blades (P)2022 Chronicle Prism

Critic reviews

“The message is clear: The power is in the ignition. Start More Than You Can Finish unpacks inspiring truth about creating.”—Jason Kander, author of Outside the Wire and Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD

“A buoyant guide to beginning things—and a liberating reminder that they don’t all need to get done. If you’ve ever hesitated to launch an idea or a project, this book could be the fuel you need.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

“Every hit you can name likely started as something much different. Start More Than You Can Finish is your key to discovering that life-changing thing you were meant to do.”—John Jantsch, bestselling author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Ultimate Marketing Engine, and The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

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