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Start More Than You Can Finish

A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

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Start More Than You Can Finish

By: Becky Blades
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
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 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 readers 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 READERS 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
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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
“Start More Than You Can Finish reveals a surprisingly productive mindset: No matter how uncertain we might be about the finish, we flourish by acting on our ideas right away and trusting the creative process. This book will inspire you to get started already!” -Scott Barry Kaufman, host of The Psychology Podcast; author of Transcend; founder, Center for Human Potential
“A joyous corrective to all the nay-saying voices in your life-and more importantly, the ones in your head. Becky Blades is your wise and funny guide through the rough terrain of creative work. If you’ve ever wanted a bit of cheerleading as you faced down your artistic bugbears, this is for you. It’s definitely for me!” -Emily Flake, humorist and cartoonist for the New Yorker, author of That Was Awkward and Mama Tried
“Writing books takes courage, but if you ask for help getting started, you can do almost anything. (Becky let me paint with a mop on a refrigerator box.)” -True Kander (age 8), coauthor of Courage Is . . .
“Almost anybody interested in getting more done will find great ideas here. Simply the most important new book on productivity I have seen.” -Henry DeVries, Forbes.com columnist and coauthor of How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett
“In the same voice of caring, supportive nurturing that made Do Your Laundry or You’ll Die Alone delightful nuggets of chocolate-covered carrots, this book is candy for the soul and nutrition for the mind. A full-meal read that keeps you wanting just one more bite . . . until you’re full of creative sparks. Yum!” -Barbara C. Unell, bestselling author of Discipline with Love Limits; founder, Raised with Love and Limits Foundation
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