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How to quit procrastinating: Cover of I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

How to quit procrastinating: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't.

Are you looking for help with “how to quit procrastinating”? Then this page is a good place to start. I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't is one of the titles of I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start, a book by Diego Segura. First, read a short passage from it. After that, try the exercise below, and finally choose where to read or listen.

How to quit procrastinating: a passage from the book.

Don't read this the way you've read the others. You already know how to finish a business book and change nothing, because the reading itself feels like preparing, and preparing is the exact trap the next eleven chapters are about. Read chapter 1 and do the thing at the end of it before you read chapter 2. It takes an evening. It costs nothing.

From the introduction

Read the 52 per cent again, because that's the one that follows you around afterwards, and more than half the people who signed up never went through the door. They did not fail anything. They registered, felt whatever registering feels like, and never came back to the page.

From chapter 6: The course that never ends

That is how the book looks at “how to quit procrastinating”: 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.

Start in five minutes.

Write the smallest step that would move your business forward, then give it five minutes. The timer only removes the excuse; the starting is yours.

Nothing you type leaves this page.

What else is inside I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

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 quit procrastinating”.

  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

How to quit procrastinating: where to read it.

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't 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.