Procrastinate on purpose: Why Do I Never Actually Start?.

The hopeful half is that people can see it coming, and so can you. You already know you won't do this tonight, and you knew it this morning too, and that knowledge is not useless to you. It is the precondition for the only move that is actually available.

From chapter 8: Why later always wins

Then do the second half, which is the half that makes it different from everything else you've promised yourself: put the reply where a second person can see it. Not the answer you hope for. The actual reply, or the actual silence, written down somewhere another human being will look.

From chapter 11: Fourteen days

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

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 Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress 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 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
• What Counts as Started: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
• The Number That Keeps Moving: I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start
• 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

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.