Go do! By Jeremy Harbour – Summary of Chapters 1-5

Go Do is written by Jeremy Harbour, a serial entrepreneur who writes the book from his own experiences. According to Jeremy, he wrote the book for those who talk about starting a business but never get around to actually doing it.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the first five chapters:

Chapter 1 – Go Me: This is all about Jeremy. A bit about his childhood days, family, struggle with formal education and his business exploits as a child. Jeremy didn’t follow the common route of education and then land a job. He started right out in business after secondary school and after a while built a multi-million pound business. His stories are inspiring.

Chapter 2 – Risk: As the chapter suggests, the subject of this chapter is risk, particularly why people fail to live up to their dreams of starting s business. Jeremy discusses the issue of failure and why it is important to try something rather than regret later in life for not trying. Failure as a learning experience is also highlighted.

Chapter 3 – Go You: Here Jeremy Harbour is challenging us to do away with the belief that we can’t start a business. He touches on self-limiting beliefs and offers some ways to over come them.

Chapter 4 – The worst five excuses: This chapter covers the top five excuses people give for not starting a business. Jeremy explores the validity of each of these excuses in detail. The excuses are:

a. I need a lot of money to start a business
b. I cannot afford to leave work
c. I heard 80% of new businesses go bust in the first three years
d. I need to gain more experience in my chosen field before making the leap
e. I don’t know about business tax or accountancy

Chapter 5 – The invention myth: The main premise here is that you don’t need a new invention to start a successful business. In other words, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

This is a quick summary of the first five chapters of Go Do! by Jeremy Harbour. You can pick up a copy on Amazon.com.