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Author, Neil Fiore, offers the first comprehensive strategy to overcome the causes of procrastination and to eliminate its deleterious effects. His techniques will help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by failure to meet the workplace's pressing deadlines. This revised, redesigned edition includes a new introduction and a section that provides strategies to understand and deal with the complex role technology plays in procrastination today.
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Your strategic program begins with identifying your procrastination patterns so you can apply the appropriate techniques for replacing them with the effective work patterns of producers. Read the first page
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180 of 182 people found the following review helpful
By J. Davis
Format:Paperback
This book not only helped me understand why I procrastinate (even on things I want to do!), but told me what to do to cure the problem. It genuinely transformed my life well before I got to the end of it, and has been an absolute relief. It doesn't repeat the same old Time Management instructions, but gives you a whole new approach. I'd read every book I could find on how to organise myself, I knew what I had to do, I had everything listed and prioritised - I just couldn't persuade myself to do anything, before the last minute deadline. This book gave me so many simple answers. I'm an international management trainer, and I've recommended it to lots of friends, colleagues and course participants. Don't buy it for time management tips. Do buy it if you recognise yourself as a serial procrastinator - you'll love it.
126 of 130 people found the following review helpful
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Once in a while a book comes along that makes perfect sense. This is a book written by someone who is extremely wise on this subject. A sage-like quality about it. No surprise that Neil has studied this subject for years. The quality in this book shows.
Nearly all the books I've read have failed in their mission to get the reader motivated.
This book is different. Everyone is unique and everyone has their own entry points. For me I loved the idea of designing one's day around what one really enjoys, leisure, hobbies, exercise etc. Then peppered around this one build's half hour slots of time to do some work towards one's goal.
This book builds on the ideas given. Not neccessarily in chronological order. More a 3D model. A layer that also really clicked for me was that instead of focusing on finishing this task, project, goal one has a series of starts. One Starts towards the goal for 30 minutes. Then after this a reward, some fun in life. Then back to the next 30 minute session.
What's reccommended is to take a 2 minute pre-project focus to get the mind in the right vibration(my word) before beginning.
Procrastinating uses up valuable energy. It's a protection of sorts, but it takes energy to procrastinate. The stories of clients in the book makes one feel that this is more common that we tend to think. Some suffer more than others. For me it's been around for 75% of my life and got worse over the last few years.
Having taken voluntary redundancy last November, I thought starting a new career was a simple affair with all this time available. It wasn't time, it was an out of control procrastination junkie. However, it's not always so obvious. In Barbara De Angelis's book Confidence, she speaks of 3 types of confidence, behavioral, spiritual and emotional. In my view if you've got procrastiation as the savior of your pain, you will most assurely lack behavioral confidence in yourself.
This will be money so well spent. It's like having an expert right in your hands, helping you every step of the way.
For me I realised that I wasn't living a life of fun, I was still waiting for something to happen before my life begun.
update 05.12.10
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I recently read How To Be Smart With Your Time: Expert Advice from the Star of Dragons' Den. Its the best book I've read on identifying where your time goes, getting focus and identifying your passions. Read my review as I've covered in depth my personal journey as well as the book contents. You'll notice the ADD mind in the behaviour :o)
Creator of the Beginner Tai Chi (DVD)
Nearly all the books I've read have failed in their mission to get the reader motivated.
This book is different. Everyone is unique and everyone has their own entry points. For me I loved the idea of designing one's day around what one really enjoys, leisure, hobbies, exercise etc. Then peppered around this one build's half hour slots of time to do some work towards one's goal.
This book builds on the ideas given. Not neccessarily in chronological order. More a 3D model. A layer that also really clicked for me was that instead of focusing on finishing this task, project, goal one has a series of starts. One Starts towards the goal for 30 minutes. Then after this a reward, some fun in life. Then back to the next 30 minute session.
What's reccommended is to take a 2 minute pre-project focus to get the mind in the right vibration(my word) before beginning.
Procrastinating uses up valuable energy. It's a protection of sorts, but it takes energy to procrastinate. The stories of clients in the book makes one feel that this is more common that we tend to think. Some suffer more than others. For me it's been around for 75% of my life and got worse over the last few years.
Having taken voluntary redundancy last November, I thought starting a new career was a simple affair with all this time available. It wasn't time, it was an out of control procrastination junkie. However, it's not always so obvious. In Barbara De Angelis's book Confidence, she speaks of 3 types of confidence, behavioral, spiritual and emotional. In my view if you've got procrastiation as the savior of your pain, you will most assurely lack behavioral confidence in yourself.
This will be money so well spent. It's like having an expert right in your hands, helping you every step of the way.
For me I realised that I wasn't living a life of fun, I was still waiting for something to happen before my life begun.
update 05.12.10
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I recently read How To Be Smart With Your Time: Expert Advice from the Star of Dragons' Den. Its the best book I've read on identifying where your time goes, getting focus and identifying your passions. Read my review as I've covered in depth my personal journey as well as the book contents. You'll notice the ADD mind in the behaviour :o)
Creator of the Beginner Tai Chi (DVD)
45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
By Phillistein
Format:Paperback
I've read hundreds of self-help books, but this blows almost everything else out of the water. This book helped me to understand the reasons why I procrastinate and showed how this habit leads to worry, loss of confidence and chronic underperformance - even in areas that I had not considered to be linked to procrastination. It's like suffering a mysterious illness and feeling that, at last, there is a proper diagnosis and cure. It even shows how the classic shaming and bullying tactics others use to 'spur us on' only serve to fuel the emotions which block natural performance and success. This is now available on audiobook, read by the author. Play it on the way to work and improve your performance!
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Best I've read on procrastination so far.
If I could follow the advice, it would be perfect. Every now and then I get a surge of extra motivation and then it works wonders, until it stops working because procrastination... Read more
Published 17 hours ago by Industrellect
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Practical and effective
Unlike several self help books, which merely provide excellent quotes and motivational rhetoric, this one offers practical and effective ways to deal with procrastination. Read more
Published 2 months ago by NathanKing
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Focus on starting and the finishing will take care of itself...
The general principles contained within The Now Habit are easy to follow and understand. It does offer a set of strategic tools for you to overcome procrastination. Read more
Published 4 months ago by James Wynn
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This is brilliant
This is fab - one of the few books of the genre that goes any further than just (metaphorically) waving a couple of pompoms at you and shouting "come on, get up and just do... Read more
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Great Read
This book is life changing, if, like me, you put stuff off and then have a mountain of things to do. Read more
Published 9 months ago by KayDee
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Surprisingly simple
The solutions to procrastination proposed in this book are simple, one might say simplistic but in all honesty, they work. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Stuart Fairney
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this is the book you're looking for!
I read this book in the aftermath of a particularly bad deadline (4 essays due in on the same day) i'd lived souly off toast had 8 hours sleep in the last 3 days; i realised i... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Louise .H.
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The Now Habit
This is the first Self Help book I have been able to read all the way through. As a procrastinator and a perfectionist myself, it really hit the mark! Read more
Published 19 months ago by Cur
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changed my behaviour! best purchase ever!
I had a problem for decades - and knew it. I'd get there in the end and achieve great results (cum laude and so on), but oh the stress and worry and anxiety and PROCRASTINATION was... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Julie & co.
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