Procrastination and overthinking: I Want to Start a Business.

And all of it felt like progress. That's the part you need to take seriously, because it's the part that will cost you the most years. It didn't feel like hiding. It felt like work, because it was work, and at the end of most evenings there was something on the screen that hadn't been there in the morning.

From chapter 1: The gap between wanting and doing

It also leaves your real question untouched either way, because nothing in that 1996 research compares the months you spend preparing where nobody can answer you against the months you spend somewhere an answer is possible. As far as I can find, nobody has run that comparison directly. I'll tell you when a thing has been tested and when it hasn't, and this one hasn't.

From chapter 3: What counts as started

That is how the book looks at “procrastination and overthinking”: 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 “procrastination and overthinking”.

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: 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. So, pick the one that speaks to you.

• I Want to Start a Business: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• I Want to Start a Business: Stop Getting Ready and Let a Stranger Answer You
• But I Never Actually Start: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Want to Start a Business: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• I Want to Start a Business: For Everyone Who Has Meant to Start for Years
• But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing
• I Never Actually Start: Why Preparing Feels Like Progress and Isn't
• I Never Actually Start: One Question, One Stranger, Fourteen Days
• Why Do I Never Actually Start?: Preparing Is Not Progress
• I Never Actually Start: What the Research Says About Why Later Always Wins

See all 43 titles. Go to the book page.