Chronic procrastination: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

How long have you been going to start this business? Most people who pick up a book like this one can answer that to the nearest year without thinking, and the number is bigger than they would say out loud at a table full of other people. Four years. Seven. Since the job before this one.

From the introduction

That's why it rises. Not because you're weak, and not because you don't want this. It rises because it is the only part of the arrangement that can move, and moving it is free.

From chapter 4: The number that keeps moving

That is how the book looks at “chronic procrastination”: 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 “chronic procrastination”.

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 but I Never Actually Start: The Course That Never Ends and the Number That Keeps Moving 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 but I Never Actually Start: For Everyone Who Has Meant to Start for Years
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Nobody Has Ever Said No to You
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Eleven Exercises, Each One Done in a Single Sitting
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Why Wanting It More Was Never the Answer
• But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: The Evidence on Plans, Courses, Licences and Waiting
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: What Counts as Started, and How to Get There

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