19 Top nonfiction books like Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas by Becky Blades

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Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

By: Becky Blades

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Master the art of the start with this new way of thinking, with exercises to help you unleash your …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas by Becky Blades , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

Similar categories in Annie Dillard's The Writing Life book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • writing
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2. Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

By: Jon Acuff

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Overthinking isn't a personality trait. It's the sneakiest form of fear. It steals time, creativit… read more

Similar categories in Jon Acuff's Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset) book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Your brain is waiting for you each day. It's waiting to be told what to think. It's waiting to see what kind of soundtracks you'll choose. It's waiting to see if you really want to build a different …"

-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

"This time though, I didn't listen to that. There was a new soundtrack in town that told me, "Everything's always working out for me? I didn't know how that was going to become true, but I decided to …"

-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

".........Frederickson discovered a more reasonable goal. "Aim for a positivity ratio of at least 3 to 1. This means that for every heart-wrenching negative emotional experience you endure, you experi…"

-Jon Acuff, Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

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3. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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4. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

By: Ali Abdaal

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more

Similar categories in Ali Abdaal's Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

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Cover of Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It by Bob Goff

6. Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

By: Bob Goff

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Find and Reach Your Biggest Dreams Bob Goff, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Does… read more

Similar categories in Bob Goff's Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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7. Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.54

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one … read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Rubin's Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"It’s easy to assume that we “should"

-Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

"It’s easier to keep up than to catch up..."

-Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

"Nothing is more exhausting than the task that’s never started."

-Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

"What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while.."

-Gretchen Rubin, Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness

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8. The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

By: Simone Stolzoff

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Superb."—Oliver Burkeman A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives fro… read more

Similar categories in Simone Stolzoff's The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
"We shouldn’t work less just because it allows us to be better workers. We should work less because it allows us to be better humans."

-Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

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9. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
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10. Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself

By: Chuck Wendig

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inex… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
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11. The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García

By: Laura Tillman

4.07

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" PickA chef’s gripping quest to reconci… read more

Similar categories in Laura Tillman's The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
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12. House Lessons: Renovating a Life

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ERICA BAUERMEISTER COMES A MEMOIR ABOUT THE POWER OF HOME AN… read more

Similar categories in Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin, #33) by M.C. Beaton

13. Devil’s Delight (Agatha Raisin, #33)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved New York Times bestseller M.C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hi… read more

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14. The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life

By: Mike Rucker

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to mak… read more

Similar categories in Mike Rucker's The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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15. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

Similar categories in Kristi Coulter's Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
Cover of Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field by Deion Sanders

16. Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field

By: Deion Sanders

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Coach Prime—famed Pro Football Hall of Famer, two-time Super Bowl–winning NFL player, head football… read more

Similar categories in Deion Sanders's Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power by Lalah Delia

17. Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power

By: Lalah Delia

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Tap into your inner power with this mind-opening guide to vibrational-based living from Instagram s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Like sunflowers, no matter where they are planted turn towards the sun, I too began turning in the direction that nourished me."

-Lalah Delia, Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power

"Some of us ran so far away, during a period of survival, that we forgot to come back home to ourselves. Return home to yourself. You are safe now."

-Lalah Delia, Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power

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18. Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

By: Becky Blades

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Master the art of the start with this new way of thinking, with exercises to help you unleash your … read more

Similar categories in Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • self help
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19. You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

By: Jodi Wellman

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Wellman's You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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20. Share Your Joy: Mixed media shareable art

By: Sarah J. Gardner

4.22

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn how to create adorable mixed-media art to send to loved ones, friends, and even strangers via… read more

Similar categories in Sarah J. Gardner's Share Your Joy: Mixed media shareable art book and Becky Blades's Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

  • art
  • nonfiction
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21. Living the Vanlife: On the Road Toward Sustainability, Community, and Joy

By: Noami Grevemberg

3.66

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Discover what it’s really like to live and work full-time on the road in a camper van from eco-vanl… read more

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  • nonfiction

14 best-selling self help books like Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas by Becky Blades

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Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset)

Jon Acuff

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

Ali Abdaal

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

Bob Goff

4.30

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9 best-selling adult books like 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

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Shannon Reed

3.71

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