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Metapsychology Online Reviews, 3/24/09
"This book succeeds on many levels. It is a useful self-help guide for general readers and the lay public. Mental health professionals...will find innovative ideas and sage advice."
Louisiana's "Acadiana Lifestyle," April 2010
"Read it. Now." "Business Today" (NC), July 2010"[A] deeply perceptive book...Show[s] you how to fix this vexing, life-sapping problem."
"This book succeeds on many levels. It is a useful self-help guide for general readers and the lay public. Mental health professionals...will find innovative ideas and sage advice."
Louisiana's "Acadiana Lifestyle," April 2010
"Read it. Now." "Business Today" (NC), July 2010"[A] deeply perceptive book...Show[s] you how to fix this vexing, life-sapping problem."
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Revised with essential updates and new material, the classic guide to understanding and controlling one of the most common behavioral problems. Based on their workshops and counselling experience, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and at times humorous look at a problem that affects everyone to some degree."Procrastination" identifies the reasons we put off tasks - fears of failure, success, control, separation, and attachment - and their roots in our childhood and adult experiences. The authors offer a practical, tested programme to overcome procrastination by achieving set goals, managing time, enlisting support, and handling stress. Burka and Yuen even provide tips on living and working with the procrastinators you may know. Wise, effective, and easy to use, this new edition shows why for 25 years "Procrastination" has been an immediate must-have for anyone who puts things off until tomorrow.
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
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You're not alone,
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This review is from: Procrastination: Why You Do it, What to Do About it (Paperback)
Having spent years getting frustrated with myself, with plenty of talents and ideas but difficulty in getting things started and even more getting them finished, I decided it was time to sort this out. This book will give you a great understanding of why you procrastinate. Divided into two sections, I was able to understand why I am as I am. Up until now I had thought that I was just frustratingly and embarrassingly lazy. Now I can see the causes which make me behave as I do. And althought this in itself doesn't sound like a solution, for me this was the most important benefit from the book, as it made me feel better about myself and give me the optimism and confidence to keep at things. And it made me realise that there are a lot of people out there like me - which was great to know.
The second section of the book doesn't have any miracle cure. It helps you to organise yourself better and use time more resourcefully. Okay so I had been doing all that anyway, but I don't believe there will be a magic solution in any book. But it did help to reinforce the things I have been doing and to improve them. Overall, the book is extremely well written, organised and easy to read. For anyone seeking help with the problem of procrastination, this is an absolute must, at least as a starting point in their journey.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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Finally!,
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This review is from: Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It (Paperback)
I've read (well, almost to the end) many books about procrastination in a subconscious yet desperate attempt to (a) avoid doing what I should be doing and (b) to find the perfect solution to my procrastination problem. The problem with all the other books I've read is that they provide very good medication for the symptoms of procrastination; methods of training yourself to get on with what you need to do. What I had yet to see was WHY I was sabotaging myself all the time.
This book does exactly that. From virtually the first page I felt that the writers really understood me, that they could have been talking ABOUT me. The reason I'm even writing this review (I always mean to review my amazon purchases, but never quite get around to it) is because I've just had the most wonderful eureka moment. I've always believed that I procrastinated because there is always something more fun to be doing than paying bills or taking out the rubbish or doing my tax return. Burka and Yuen have helped me see that just isn't true. As soon as I read the Fear of Failure chapter, I knew that I've been kidding myself all this time. Deep down I must have known it all along. I think I was afraid to even try to articulate it, so the authors had to do it for me. The most important thing I've learned is that there's not just a single reason for my chronic procrastination, but many many reasons. I probably knew what they were, deep down, but it wasn't until I had them articulated to me so plainly and (importantly) sympathetically, did they become the faulty truths that they really are. I was even able to finally articulate them to my long suffering husband who was a bit stunned, really, that there was so much at work in my decisions to contantly delay action. So, treat the disease, not the symptoms, and buy this wonderful, liberating book.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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A dynamic psychological report on procrastination, and what you can do about it,
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Approaching unwelcome tasks with an "I'll do it tomorrow" mindset is not unusual behavior. The problem is, tomorrow quickly becomes today, so the procrastinator sets a new tomorrow goal. This tomorrow goal eventually becomes a next week goal, then a next month goal, then a next year goal - that is, a never goal. Time runs out for everyone, but it does so far more quickly for procrastinators. If you procrastinate, do you know why? Psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen outline the reasons and roots of procrastination. More importantly, they show you how to fix your vexing, life-sapping procrastination problem. getAbstract suggests that anyone who procrastinates should buy this book. Now would be fine.
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