Procrastinate at work: Why Later Always Wins.

So try this out loud tonight, before you put the book down. The version of you at nine in the morning decides to make the call today. The version of you at nine at night decides to make it tomorrow. Both of those are decisions, made by the same person, holding the same information, a few hours apart. One of them keeps winning. Why is it always that one?

From chapter 8: Why later always wins

It is a Tuesday evening. The dishes are done, the laptop is open on the table where you left it this morning, and there is an hour in front of you that you could use for this. Tomorrow has more room in it than tonight does. It always has, every night, for four years, and the room has never once been there when you arrived.

From chapter 8: Why later always wins

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

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 Why Later Always Wins: 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.

• 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.