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

I did not find one. A business that never started leaves nothing behind: no filing, no customer, no product, no receipt, no angry review. It happens on one laptop in one room and then it stops, and there is no record of any of it anywhere, because nothing ever touched the world.

From chapter 1: The gap between wanting and doing

That's the whole charge, and it's narrower than it sounded when this chapter started. Not that you wasted the money. Not that the teaching was poor, because in my case it wasn't. Only this: you chose, over and over, across four years and a dozen receipts, the version of the work in which nobody was ever free to turn you down, and every time you chose it there was a certificate at the end saying you'd done something.

From chapter 6: The course that never ends

That is how the book looks at “how to get over 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 get over 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: What Counts as Started, and How to Get There 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: Count the Years, Not the Months
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: The Attempts That Died Took Longer
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: How to Stop Preparing and Find Out
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Fourteen Days to a Real Answer
• But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing
• I Want to Start a Business: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business: Stop Getting Ready and Let a Stranger Answer You

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.