Summary of Procrastination Is the Assassination of All Destination: Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself and Take Action
Procrastination Is the Assassination of All Destination: Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself and Take Action is a short, blunt book for the person who says they are too busy, who will start when things calm down. It opens in a graveyard full of ideas nobody acted on and takes apart the excuses for not starting. The last chapter sets out what to do in the next 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days.
Ebook on Amazon Kindle and Google Play Books, ten chapters, published by Omnipressent on 23 September 2026.
What does the book argue?
The book argues that putting off an idea is more dangerous than failing at it, because failure sends a bill and procrastination sends nothing. Its answer is one small action with a date on it.
None of those are ideas. They are decisions that were never made. There is a difference, and the difference is the whole point of this book.
Failure is loud. It shows up in the bank account and it is over quickly. Procrastination is silent and it runs for decades, and the person carrying it will genuinely believe they lost nothing because they never saw the money leave.
No mentor, investor, business partner or piece of software is going to act on your behalf. That is not pessimism, it is the single most useful fact in this book.
Who is the book written for, and who is it not for?
The book says it is written for the person who says they are too busy
. It has in mind someone who has been saying so for five years and is now, quietly, feeling sorry for themselves about where they ended up. Before its tone kicks in, the book says plainly that rest, holidays and switching off at night are not the enemy.
This book is for the person who says they are too busy.
It is for the person who has not got the time, who will start when things calm down, who needs to learn one more thing first, who is waiting for the right moment.
It is for the person who has been saying all of that for five years and is now, quietly, feeling sorry for themselves about where they ended up.
Rest is not the enemy. Holidays are not the enemy. Switching off at night is not the enemy. The enemy is the gap between what you say you want and what you actually do, and the excuses you have built to stop anyone, including yourself, from noticing it.
Read who it is for in the book’s own words, in its opening note
How is the book structured?
The book opens with a note, “A Note Before We Begin”, and then runs to ten chapters, each set out under three to five question headings.
- A Note Before We Begin
- 1The Richest Place on Earth Is a Graveyard
- 2Too Busy Is a Lie
- 3The Self Pity Loop
- 4Getting Ready to Get Ready
- 5What Next Year Actually Costs
- 6Ideas Are Worthless
- 7Launch Ugly
- 8Kill the Excuse Vocabulary
- 9Nobody Is Coming to Save You
- 10Take Action
None of the ten chapters carries an individual byline, so the three authors are credited on the book as a whole. Every chapter draws on the experience of James Dooley, the human behind AI James Dooley, and tells it in the third person.
What does the book credit to other people?
The book credits both ideas behind its title to others by name: the graveyard idea, and the idea that procrastination is an assassin. It calls the title line itself James Dooley’s riff on an old truth
.
James Dooley did not originate the graveyard idea, and this book will not pretend he did. Myles Munroe called the cemetery the wealthiest place on the planet decades ago. Les Brown built a career on the same image. The line that follows it, that procrastination is an assassin, goes back at least to Victor Kiam in the 1980s and to a bank advert before that.
A check of the public record on 24 September 2026 bears out the book’s credits in outline and corrects three details. Myles Munroe published the graveyard image in 1991. Les Brown has used it since at least 1992, crediting a minister he heard say it, where the book says he built a career on the same image
. Victor Kiam’s words, in 1986, were Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin
, and the bank advert is known only from a later citation.
The exact sentence was in wide circulation on social media from early 2024, and its earliest public record is an interview with an unnamed entrepreneur; the ideas inside it are much older.
Who said it first, with every dated source
The book’s own credit, in its opening note
The Kindle and Google Play editions, and the ISBN
The three authors, with their records