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The Now Habit

A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

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Here's the first comprehensive strategic system for overcoming the causes and eliminating the effects of procrastination.

Here are techniques to help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by delay and pressing deadlines.

If you are a professional, manager, student, entrepreneur, writer, or homemaker, this audiobook will help you achieve your goals more rapidly, whether they are large, complex challenges or the small, essential tasks of everyday life and work. If you now work effectively, even though you have too much to do and too little time, The Now Habit will show you how to prioritize your goals to allow more time for guilt-free play.

Step by step, Neil Fiore, Ph.D. reveals numerous tested strategies for ridding your life of procrastination:

  • Use the symptoms of procrastination to trigger the cure
  • Overcome the perfectionism and fear of failure that lie behind procrastination
  • Benefit from making positive statements about work instead of sabotaging yourself with negative statements
  • Make your worry work for you
  • Use the "Unschedule" time-management techniques
  • Accomplish more in less time through efficient "flow state" work styles
  • Assist the procrastinators in your life in overcoming their problems

The Now Habit promises you the chance to truly enjoy guilt-free recreational time, knowing the work is really behind you.

©2006 Neil Fiore, Ph.D. (P)2007 Gildan Media
Developmental Psychology Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Procrastination Habits Inspiring
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I've been a procrastinator my whole life, this is the only book that I've come across that really seems made just for me.

The book I've been waiting for!

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The author describes clearly that procrastination is perfectionism in the extreme. We procrastinate because we are frightened of getting it wrong and because only perfect is good enough in our eyes, we'll never get it perfectly perfect, so we find other things to do that we can feel less threatened by. The author has some great tools to get round the negative thinking. I had to speed his voice up, to get it at a more listenable tempo.

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Thought it was a very well narrated book, and what was mentioned in it I need to start putting into practice. Already starting to change the way I see things and not procastinating as much as I would be previously.

Good Book - now need to put into practice!

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Very helpful and some great ideas, but would have been better if about 25% shorter. Also he doesn't really cover the problems that many of us have, trying to juggle being a parent and trying to manage our work and a complex home life.

Interesting ideas

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Found myself on a self help audio book binge at the moment. They tend to blend into each other. This one has stuck in my head. Instead of cheerleading me with positive thought and platitudes it helped in two ways:
1) helping identify procrastination behaviour
2) recognition that I don't have to martyr myself to work and instead schedule fun, relaxation etc without guilt as long as I can just start

The delivery is a bit odd, slow and hesitant, but speeding up the playback really helped. The faults actually added a bit of fallibility to the delivery, stopped it sounding didactic like so many other self help books.

Get past that and there's something really sincere and useful in here.

Actual tools to overcome procrastination

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