Finish What You Start

The Art of Following Through, Taking Action, Executing, & Self-Discipline

By: Peter Hollins

Narrated by: Gregory Sutton

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's Summary

Is your life a series of unfinished tasks and intentions? That stops now. Finish What You Start is a unique deep dive into the psychology and science of accomplishment, productivity, and getting things done. It discusses why we are sometimes stuck and gives detailed, step-by-step solutions you can start using today. Every phase of finishing and following through is covered, and even productivity pros will be able to learn something new.

Following through and finishing what you started are valuable instructions you need more than you realize. It is combination of traits that enables you to create the life you want without having to compromise or wait. The alternative is a status quo that you’re stuck in.

This guide includes practical tactics to grow your willpower, stop procrastination, focus like a laser, and achieve whatever you set your mind to. Above all else, this is a guide to better understanding your brain and instincts for optimal results. 

It discusses how to:

Channel massive productivity and mental toughness

Resist distractions, de-motivation, temptations, laziness, and excuses: 

• The surprising motivations that push us past obstacles
• How daily rules and a manifesto can help you achieve
• Valuable and insightful mindsets to view productivity from entirely new lights  

Seize self-control and finally accomplish your big and small goals

• The science and tactics to beating procrastination easily
• Focus and willpower pitfalls you are probably committing at this very moment
• How to beat distractions, remain focused, stay on task, and get to what matters consistently   

Transform your life through productive habits and avoiding mental traps

Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over 12 years and is a best-selling author. He has worked with dozens of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success. His work draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience.     

©2018 Peter Hollins (P)2018 Peter Hollins

There's a lot of good sense in this book

This is a short book of just under 3 hours - but it doesn't carry any dead weight. The book is very much focused on providing ideas and suggestions and practical tips for finishing what you start. If you pulled all of the ideas out, they'd probably amount to about 30 practical suggestions. I've implemented a couple of them. I've felt that my laziness/inertia is intractable - but in fact it's not. It's just a series of poor habits and ignorance about how I work, and what works for me. This book goes a long way to helping you get to know yourself, and identifying what (from the selection offered) can move you forward in achieving your goals and objectives. I listened to the book 3 times, and each time I heard something new.

Good book

great book. really impressed. I recommend it anytime. Please read and take action. God bless

Cool AI narration

I liked the monotone bot narration. It's not distracting the way humans are. The content was a concise explanation of of most of the effective success mechanisms found in books in this genre. Plus the author was kind enough to spare us from personal anecdotes.

Productivity 101

Meh, more of a primer course for people with poorly developed organisational skills or understanding of what it takes to be productive.

If you're just starting out on a quest to find out why you struggle to get anywhere, this is a good place to start. If you want a deep dive, this is not the answer.

incredible yet simple lesons

The lessons were straightforward and concise. Allowing the listener to grasp the discipline of an executive.

Exactly what I needed after wasted hours and effort trying to learn how to manifest

This is a roadmap for success and happiness and if I only use half of it I will still have profited greatly and I feel once again in control. Thank you for writing this,

Tough to Finish Ironically

I liked a lot of the tactics in the book, however the narrator was simply painful to listen to. It sounded almost like a computer reading it back to me.

The Procrastinator

Great book, short and to the point. Excellent tips for someone like myself who takes on more than I can handle therefore I procrastinate because I am so overwhelmed. I look forward to listening to your next book 👍

Great book/audible.

Covers essential aspects: how people fail and succeed. How people can recovery after initial
failures if they know about themselves and their projects better, etc.

This Book Seems Systematic and Listenable Weekly.

Ideas such as temptation-bundling, setting goals based on personal history while not having excessively high or low expectations, missions being worthwhile, and discomfort needing to be tolerated sound helpful.

However, the 70/40 rule looks like it's based on arbitrary thinking. Colin Powell may have had a valid point about having between 40-70% of the info before a decision must be made, except how do you know what equals 70% and 40% when the information total may not be quantifiable?

Couldn't finish the book

Ironically enough (though not to much of my surprise). But maybe it's just me.

Fantastic book, highly recommended!

Very helpful, a complete landscape of reasons and pitfalls and techniques and systems to navigate them and follow tasks through to completion.
Simple to understand and implement, I found its really helped me to map out a route to a habit of finishing!

Good book but......... read like a robot

I think this is a great book but the reading is so robot very nursery with spaces.

Good book but ditch the robot voice

Ruined by Robotic & Lifeless Narration

The first Peter Hollins book I bought was narrated by the author. Peter is a great narrator and should in all cases be narrating his own books. This one however has been spoiled by the robotic and lifeless reading of the voiceover actor. I think that Peter's book content is generally quite good, but this one needs to be redone by the author in my view. The only redeeming highlight was the fact that the author himself did make an appearance near the end, to sum up the book's main points.