Need to stop procrastinating: The Licence You Do Not Need.

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

Then there is the thing nobody has counted at all. How many people believe they need a permission that their work does not actually require? Nine searches produced nothing I could hand you. What the research measures instead is whether people report their own licensing status accurately, which is a different question with a different answer, and it is not this one.

From chapter 7: The licence you do not need

That is how the book looks at “need to stop 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.

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 “need to stop 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

Finally, you can get The Licence You Do Not Need: 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.

In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.

• 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
• I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.