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StopProcrastinatingNow
Category:
Self-Help
Publisher: Echelon Press LLC
ISBN-10: 1590805461
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 288
Copyright: December 2007
ISBN-13: 9781590805466
If you know that what is holding you back from the success you want is that you're not doing what you know you need to do, that you're putting things off, delaying things continually, you're an eleventh hour person, or if you think "procrastinator" is your middle name, this book was written for you!
Could it actually be wise to procrastinate sometimes? Heavens! Could that be possible?! This book contains the secrets to understanding when it can be productive to procrastinate, and provides strategies for switching on the inspiration and motivation to start and finish the important tasks and goals you've been putting off. Discover:
• What procrastination really is, and what being a procrastinator means about you - and it's not that you're a lazy, disorganized slacker, either.
• When procrastination might be beneficial (more often than you think!) and how to use it to your advantage
• How do determine when it's good and when it's not good to procrastinate.
• Zapping destructive procrastination at the root and heading it off at the pass.
• How to get things done with less struggle and resistance, including a simple exercise to take you from dread to delight.
Excerpt
"One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow."
--Vincent T. Fos
When done properly, there really is a beautiful side to procrastination. I call that Productive Procrastination. Isn't that a freeing thought? Included in this heading are many of those things on your to-do list that aren't getting done. In this section, we'll discuss a number of reasons why some those to-do's should be postponed, and how procrastination might not really be what's going on with some of the others.
Here's a little secret. The most successful people procrastinate productively all the time. It's true!
Productive procrastination is…are you ready…the same thing as effective time management!
Are you a super-hero?
After all, you only have 24/7/365 (except for Leap year, and you're probably just giddy with anticipation over an additional 24 hours, aren't you?). There's only so much you can pack into that time. You can "have it all", but you just might not be able to have it all at once.
Compare your life to what it was like 15 or 20 years ago. Didn't it seem a lot less complicated? Wasn't there considerably less pressure to be buff, beautiful, smart, sexy, successful, wealthy, and wise than there is today? There were fewer obligations, demands on your time, or numbers and types of expectations. In this 21st century, we are blessed with a vast multitude of conveniences, opportunities, events to attend, subjects to learn, organizations to participate in, and other choices of many varied kinds. Indeed, there is such an overabundance of them that we end up feeling more stressed than blessed!
There is simply no precedent in the history of species Homo sapiens for dealing with this amount of complexity, information, and choice. It's understandable that many of us end up procrastinating, whether productively or destructively, as we wend our way through which long distance, and/or regional, and/or cellular provider to sign up for, and then we have to consider each provider's multiple plans.
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