How to avoid procrastination and laziness: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

Can you write it? If you can't, write that down instead, in the same handwriting, because some rules do cover everything you would ever want to do and finding that out in one sitting beats another six months of assuming it. You'd have an answer. You'd know your fee, you'd know your hours, and you'd know that both of them were real rather than remembered.

From chapter 7: The licence you do not need

By the time I checked I was two weeks out. It cost 210 dollars, a hundred and fifty of that a rush fee because of when I had started, and sixty for a food-safety verification. Fourteen days of emails. A mandatory in-person inspection of the staging area, two hours before the doors opened.

From chapter 7: The licence you do not need

That is how the book looks at “how to avoid procrastination and laziness”: 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 “how to avoid procrastination and laziness”.

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: Fourteen Days to a Real Answer 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: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business: Stop Getting Ready and Let a Stranger Answer You
• I Want to Start a Business: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing
• I Want to Start a Business: For Everyone Who Has Meant to Start for Years
• I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Never Actually Start: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.