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

Now the part that costs something. Find one person who heard you say it back then, and ask them a single question: what do you remember me actually doing about it? Write their answer down in their words, without arguing with them, without explaining yourself, and without helping them remember.

From chapter 1: The gap between wanting and doing

Be careful with that average, because it is an average of one specific thing. It runs across the licences themselves, one for each occupation in each state that licenses it. It is not an average across the 102 occupations, and it is not weighted by how many people actually hold each one, so a state that does not license a job at all contributes nothing whatsoever to that job's row.

From chapter 7: The licence you do not need

That is how the book looks at “how to beat 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 “how to beat 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: Eleven Exercises, Each One Done in a Single Sitting 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: Why Wanting It More Was Never the Answer
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: The Evidence on Plans, Courses, Licences and Waiting
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: What Counts as Started, and How to Get There
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Count the Years, Not the Months
• 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 Attempts That Died Took Longer
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: How to Stop Preparing and Find Out
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Fourteen Days to a Real Answer

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.