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The Now Habit

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

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The Now Habit

By: Neil Fiore
Narrated by: Neil Fiore
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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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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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This book has this "self-helpy" vibe to it (mostly due to narration) and I was sceptical at first. I've read too many of those self-congratulatory pamphlets that just force their dogma while backing it up with incorrect facts. Too often self-help gurus just barely touch the surface levels of behavioural psychology, leaving me perplexed and doubtful.
But Neil quickly dispelled these wrong assumptions as he got deeper and deeper into the root of the procrastination issues. I really found the book helpful as it expanded on the emotional psychology of time management that "The Big Leap" (the other fantastic book on life purpose and goal setting) only glanced at.
I really needed to understand the habitual and sequencing patterns of behaviour and thinking that kept locking me into the procrastination mode. Neil comes up with thorough explanations and really wise advises on how to steer your mind in the right direction. Without all this uneducated hutzpah around "getting over being lazy" I see too often at "orange spiral stages".
I know it sounds exalted and lofty but in a sense, the book has changed my life. Or at least put me on the right path as there is work on my part yet to be done...

Highly recommended.

Surprisingly good...

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loved it. not like other books I read. it actually worked to raise my self esteem. which was the main problem that delayed action.

this book solves the root causes of procrastination instead of just moving around it with techniques to take actions. when the root causes are understood, it becomes easier to start on anything rather than that strong urge to delay or the dread fear to start.

procrastination is not the problem. it is the symptom of some hidden other problems. This book helped with those hidden problems.

best book I knew about procrastination

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I think this book is a good book, but is missing the number one cause of procastination of now days: the smarphone. I think that's the real struggle for everyone living this time of history. Without this important consideration this book can be a bit obsolete and should be updated.

number one problem

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Great book if you want to conquer procastination. very helpful step to step guide

Solutions to dealing with procrastination

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