People who procrastinate: I Want to Start a Business.

That's the whole difference between my six months and a business. Not effort, not skill, and not the quality of the thing, which was genuinely good and might well have sold. The difference is that every action I took was addressed to people who had no reason to refuse me, while the single act that would have put me in front of somebody with every reason to refuse stayed inside a tab that I closed.

From chapter 1: The gap between wanting and doing

That is the thing, and notice how badly it describes you. You're not somebody who wants everything now. You've waited years for this business, and waiting is the one thing you have comprehensively proved you can do. What you can't do is the Tuesday.

From chapter 8: Why later always wins

That is how the book looks at “people who procrastinate”: 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 “people who procrastinate”.

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: For Everyone Who Has Meant to Start for Years 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 Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• I Never Actually Start: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Never Actually Start: What the Research Says About Why Later Always Wins
• But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: The Evidence on Plans, Courses, Licences and Waiting
• Preparing Is Not Progress: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• The Gap Between Wanting and Doing: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
• The Three-Month Window: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.