The art of creation and finishing what you start

New Book: 🎯 CHIP AWAY: 488 Thoughts on Mastering the Creative Life

I've been a maker and creator from an early age, but for the first thirty-five years everything I did was half baked and hair brained, I loved bells and whistles, everything I made came with a raft of useless crap attached, keeping things simple was never the answer.

Then, in my early twenties, I started showing signs of what would be diagnosed as schizophrenia. Due to the accompanying delusions of grandeur, I started thinking big. The scope of everything I started would always be too big or too complex to complete. After ten years of not being properly medicated, I hit rock bottom.

My life was a mess, I was a mess, and I ended up in the psych ward, where I would for the first time meet my now wife.

After that I started getting my shit together, I got married the following year, and with my new found health and wellbeing was able to start the journey of making things that worked and were small enough in scope that I could complete them.

Since then, I've written over twenty books, starting with those under a thousand words, then moving to those under five thousand words, and now I'm churning out books between ten thousand and thirty thousand words.

I've scratched my own itch by making numerous apps to solve my own problems, including a meditation app, and a tool that gamifies the practice of writing.

I've created printable games that are a lot of fun to play, and I've even written and produced eight albums for Spotify with the help of AI.

I've just released my latest book which has 488 thoughts on what it takes to do what I've done, all the principles tips and tricks that took me from being hare-brained and half-baked and hardly ever finishing what I start to having habits, systems, and the mindset to do creative work and make the cake, instead of just buying all the ingredient and throwing them in a bowl, hoping the cake will appear, this book is my recipe to getting stuff done as a creator.

Check it out at https://rickybrowne.com