Who Decides When You Start: The Date Is Handed Over.

Who decides when you start is often a person who never thought about you at all. A plant closes, a contract ends, and the idea comes out of the drawer. So the years of waiting were never going to end on their own.

The afternoon somebody else put in your calendar.

A message arrives at four in the afternoon and runs to three sentences. The contract will not be renewed, and March is the last month. Fear arrives later, because it takes about a day and brings arithmetic. But the idea you carried for years gets there first, standing in the room with its hand up.

Who decides when you start, in most real cases.

For a lot of people, the start date is chosen by somebody who was not thinking about them. A restructure gets signed off by a person who has never met you. So the idea comes out, not because you found discipline, but because your income was taken away.

This chapter is therefore about when, not about who starts or how good they become. It asks one question: when you picture starting, what day is it, and who told you?

Why waiting never ends by itself.

If the date usually gets picked for you, two things follow. First, waiting for the right moment to start never ends, since nothing inside it was scheduled to end. Second, a forcing event to start a business does not have to be large. Also, it does not have to be somebody else's idea, and you can build one this month.

Find out who decides when you start.

Write down the day you picture yourself starting, and who told you it was that day.

Note whether anything in your current waiting is actually scheduled to end.

From the book.

So this one is about when. Not who starts, not what kind of person they turn out to be, not whether they're any good at it once they do. Just the date, and who picked it. When you picture yourself starting, what day is it, and who told you it was that day?
I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start, chapter 9: Nobody chooses the day they start

Questions about who decides when you start.

Who decides when you start, for most people?

Often it is somebody who never thought about you. A plant closure, an ended contract or a restructure picks the date.

Why does waiting not end on its own?

Nothing inside the waiting was ever scheduled to end. So without an outside date, it simply continues.

Can a forcing event be small?

Yes. It does not have to be large or somebody else's idea, and you can build one before the month ends.

Read the whole chapter.

This lesson covers one section of chapter 9, “Nobody chooses the day they start”. The book goes further, with the full evidence, the stories and every exercise.

Who decides when you start: cover of I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start by Diego Segura

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