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Stop procrastinating and start doing: Cover of But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

Stop procrastinating and start doing: But I Never Actually Start.

Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing.

Are you looking for help with “stop procrastinating and start doing”? Then this page is a good place to start. But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing is one of the titles of I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start, a book by Diego Segura. First, read a short passage from it. After that, try the exercise below, and finally choose where to read or listen.

Stop procrastinating and start doing: a passage from the book.

So what actually changed in those eleven minutes? Nothing about the guide. Not one word of it. The file was identical at 10:14 to the file it had been at 10:03, and the only difference between a document nobody had bought and a document that twenty-one people paid for was that I had stopped keeping it to myself.

From chapter 3: What counts as started

What the pair of them show you is the real size of the gap you are looking at. One is filed under stealth and one under building in public, and the gap between the two of them is far smaller than the gap between either of them and you, because both had outsiders responding to the real thing within weeks. One called it a personal network and the other called it an audience. Neither of them was ever invisible.

From chapter 3: What counts as started

That is how the book looks at “stop procrastinating and start doing”: 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.

Start in five minutes.

Write the smallest step that would move your business forward, then give it five minutes. The timer only removes the excuse; the starting is yours.

Nothing you type leaves this page.

What else is inside I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start.

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 “stop procrastinating and start doing”.

  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

Stop procrastinating and start doing: where to read it.

Finally, you can get But I Never Actually Start: Eleven Chapters on the Gap Between Wanting and Doing 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.