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

I want you to hold the shape of it anyway. Organisations with money, staff, lawyers and quarterly reporting find it hard to say that a thing is over. You're one person, you've no landlord and no board, and there's nothing on your calendar that so much as mentions this business.

From chapter 2: The three-month window

Is that your trade? Then go and get the thing. Budget for it properly, start your clock this week, and read the rest of this chapter as being about some different part of your work, because there will be one.

From chapter 7: The licence you do not need

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. So, pick the one that speaks to you.

• 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.