How to Stop Procrastinating

by Frank A. Ives — fictional author, real advice

About 1 hour70 pages15 chaptersPDF + EPUB$4.99

“Ask what feeling you are avoiding, not why you haven't started. The feeling is the diagnosis. Everything else is just the symptom.”

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FRANKLYcontents · 15 chapters

What’s inside

Fifteen chapters. One subject.
No wasted pages.

01You Are Not Lazy. You Are Avoiding Something.p. 3
02The Starting Problem Is the Only Problem.p. 8
03The Two-Minute Rule Is Real.p. 13
04Make the Task Smaller Than Your Resistance.p. 18
05Your Environment Is Doing Half the Work.p. 23
06p. 28
07p. 33
08p. 38
09p. 43
10p. 47
11p. 51
12p. 55
13p. 59
14p. 63
15p. 67

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FRANKLYread before you buy

A taste of Frank

This is how he writes.

The hard truth · chapter 1

When a person says they are lazy, what they usually mean is that they are not doing a specific set of things they believe they should be doing. This is not laziness. Laziness would mean an absence of motivation across all domains. What they are describing is selective avoidance: specific tasks not started, specific obligations deferred, specific discomforts not yet faced. That is not a character flaw. It is a feeling with a target.

“Ask what feeling you are avoiding, not why you haven't started. The feeling is the diagnosis. Everything else is just the symptom.”

A page from How to Stop Procrastinating, actual size

the book is 70 pages. this is one of them.

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FRANKLYwhat changes · one hour later

The outcome

One hour. Here’s what’s
different after.

You'll stop calling yourself lazy and start identifying what you're actually avoiding. These are different diagnoses with different treatments. Frank handles both.
You'll have a real answer to the starting problem — the only problem most people actually have. Everything else is downstream of this.
You'll know why your environment is doing half the work either for or against you — and how to change whose side it's on. Frank's most practical chapter.
You'll understand the perfectionism trap and why the standard you're holding yourself to is the reason the thing isn't done. Done is not the enemy of good. It is the requirement for it.
You'll walk away with a system — not a motivation speech, not a mindset shift. A repeatable process. Frank doesn't do moods.