Best way to stop procrastinating: I Want to Start a Business.

A study that measures it would settle the question, so I searched the planning research and the research on how long people spend getting ready. Four searches, nothing back. Four is thin. You are getting the number rather than a confident sentence, and you can weigh it accordingly.

From chapter 5: Preparation and its stop condition

That is what your stop-reason is doing. It isn't a judgement about your business. It is the point where the work stopped being about a stranger and went back to being about your own document. Every time.

From chapter 10: The unfinished task

That is how the book looks at “best way to stop procrastinating”: one idea at a time, with a step you can take right away. Of course, this is only one idea from the book. So, if this passage speaks to you, the full chapter goes further, and it ends with an exercise you can do the same evening.

In short, the book has 11 chapters, and each one ends with a practical exercise. Therefore, you can read it in order, or you can go straight to the part about “best way to stop procrastinating”.

1. The gap between wanting and doing
2. The three-month window
3. What counts as started
4. The number that keeps moving
5. Preparation and its stop condition
6. The course that never ends
7. The licence you do not need
8. Why later always wins
9. Nobody chooses the day they start
10. The unfinished task
11. Fourteen days

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business: Stop Getting Ready and Let a Stranger Answer You in the stores below. Because every title of this book shares the same text, you can simply pick the one you like best. Also, the book is available in 19 languages.

In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.

• I Want to Start a Business: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• I Want to Start a Business: For Everyone Who Has Meant to Start for Years
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• I Never Actually Start: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing
• I Never Actually Start: What the Research Says About Why Later Always Wins
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: The Evidence on Plans, Courses, Licences and Waiting
• Preparing Is Not Progress: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.