Motivation and procrastination: The Number That Keeps Moving.
Are you looking for help with “motivation and procrastination”? Then this page is a good place to start. The Number That Keeps Moving: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start 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.
Motivation and procrastination: a passage from the book.
Some of what you might want to do genuinely needs capital before the first customer, too. A vehicle. A kitchen you're legally obliged to fit out before you can sell a single plate of food. Stock you have to buy before anybody can buy it from you.
From chapter 4: The number that keeps moving
By May it had crossed five thousand and kept going. Five thousand one hundred and twenty, in a Sunday summary that landed in my inbox while I was away for the weekend. The number I named was round and the number that actually turned up was not.
From chapter 4: The number that keeps moving
That is how the book looks at “motivation and 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.
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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 “motivation and procrastination”.
- The gap between wanting and doing
- The three-month window
- What counts as started
- The number that keeps moving
- Preparation and its stop condition
- The course that never ends
- The licence you do not need
- Why later always wins
- Nobody chooses the day they start
- The unfinished task
- Fourteen days
Motivation and procrastination: where to read it.
Finally, you can get The Number That Keeps Moving: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start 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.
Other titles of this book.
In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.
- Preparation and Its Stop Condition: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- The Course That Never Ends: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- The Licence You Do Not Need: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- Why Later Always Wins: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- Nobody Chooses the Day They Start: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- The Unfinished Task: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- Fourteen Days: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
- Preparing Is Not Progress: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
- I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress