I find Charlie Gilkey to be a fascinating person. In a Barbara Walters kind of fascinating. Why? Because he’s really different than many people who I have met in the creative realm. He brings another approach, another beingness that offers me another angle on the world. He’s a multicultural, former military, academic, philosopher, business coach, creative. And that only begins to categorize him, and not very well.
The first thing that got my attention was his suggestion that I consider my peak creative time and guard it for my own self. At the time, I was agreeing to meetings during my peak times and wondering why I wasn’t getting as much as I wanted done.
Email Triage
When I was struggling with managing my email, I found Charlie’s email triage product to be very helpful. Simple, yet effective. So I began to pay more attention. Reading his blog and newsletter, watching videos. Noticed the changes in my colleagues who hired him as a coach.
Living the Good Life
Charlie has a new product, Living the Good Life. It’s a compilation of some of the posts from his blog, Productive Flourishing. It comes with a set of audio that alternates between Charlie talking about why he wrote each piece and then reading each post. So you have a camera like perspective, zooming in and out between a thought piece and the behind the piece look. It’s deeply reflective, analyzing the world and his perspective on it. Yet, it never becomes preachy or prescriptive.
Instead there are all sorts of productivity ideas sprinkled through out. Not tips so much, but examples of how these things are put into practice. Questions, to help you think through how to apply the ideas to your life. Sometimes it’s something I can apply right away, other times, the concepts sink in slowly.
Designed for the format
Something I particularity appreciate is even though this is a product that emerged from blog content, it’s not just a quick copy and paste into a Word document. The e-book is well designed with professional illustration and layout (and it isn’t portrait so it fits well on screen.) It has been edited. So have the audios. No asking people to mute their lines or background noise that you hear in so much repurposed content. Everything is pleasant and well done.
Who might like this?
Anyone who is fascinated by how other people tick. Anyone interested in productivity, especially in the intersection with creativity. Fans of Charlie and Productive Flourishing blog. People who are thinking about creating repurposed content from their blog. People who are thinking about making a digital product and want to see a well done example. People who learn from having people show them how they put things into practice. Anyone looking to hire Charlie or attend one of his programs and want to get to know the type of person he is.
It’s affordable at $28 and will have bonus extras thrown in. Just because that’s the way he is.
I like it. The team at Productive Flourishing did a great job putting this together.
(Yes I am an affiliate, but only because I get value from his products.)
