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	The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play Neil Fiore Tarcher, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 94 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Worth way more than you're paying

I have been a severe procrastinator for many years. I am still young in my early twenties, but in my short time, I have managed to procrastinate my life away, literally. When I bought this book, it was because I was tired of putting my life on hold. I was tired of never accomplishing anything and always feeling guilty because of it. I chose this book, as well as The Procrastinator's Handbook because of good reviews. The Procrastinator's Handbook helped me very little, if at all. The Now Habit has literally changed me.

The Now Habit gets rid of a lot of pre-concieved notions about what procrastination is and why we do it. Most books out there try fixing the result of the problem, procrastination. But you can't fix a result without first knowing and fixing the real issue, the problem that created the result.

Fiore makes you re-evaluate yourself and look at what the true problems are. He says "Procrastination is not the cause of our problems,... it is an attempt to resolve... low self-esteem, perfectionism, fear of failure and of success, indecisiveness, an imbalance between work and play, ineffective goal-setting, and negative concepts about work and self." What we are really fighting isn't procrastination, but the things that make us use procrastination as a form of protection for ourselves. He goes on the explain each underlying issue, and how we can overcome those to use the energy we were normally putting in procrastination, into the project itself. He gives you a few tools you can use at your disposal should you ever become stuck and feel like reverting back to your old habits.

I gave this book five stars because it includes all the elements you need to overcome this debilitating habit. It includes proper identification of the problem, explinations on the "why" questions, the effective way of solving the issues, and the tools to do it.

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great stuff

I have been looking for this type of help for quite sometime now. I have meditated for many years but felt a more focused direction was needed. Procrastination and mental toughness hypnosis did the trick for me. Neil Fiore's soothing and professional manner easily flows into deep relaxation. I will recommend this to many people.

Julie Pieters, Montreal, Canada

Feel Better About Yourself

This book is hard to find in stores, but is an amazing motivator for anyone who feels like they procrastinate. You will have a better attitude about your day-to-day activities.

Gives understanding and strategy

I have given this book to several people in my sales team when they have been experiencing call reluctance. They like the book and half of them were able to overcome their problem.

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One robust step on the stairway out

I find it hard to disagree with those who complain that Fiore in places types a great deal without actually writing anything and often becomes so preoccupied waxing on the positive view of the human spirit(something I'm all for BTW)that he shorts you in terms of actual tactics, approaches, and examples, such as:
differentiating between perfectionism and thoroughness,a glaring misstep being that us procratinators suffer an unhealthy attraction to bad-mouthers.

-handling criticism, though he apparently broached this subject with at least the first client(Claire)mentioned in TNH.

-complexity of concepts like reality and success; it would be boneheaded to suggest that the bulk of us who aren't particularly rich or "accomplished" are failures and in a world where a week-a-year-off from work is a non-guarantee for most people and work schedules themselves dodgy, calling in sick one day to take a quiet stroll in the park and standstill running in an empty bathroom just might be the only realistic hope for a vaction and regular exercise of any kind, afterall.

Dr. Fiore so far has been alone in astutely citing procrastination as symptom of more byzantine complications and I'd just like to tack on the idea that if you have spent years of your life playing the person who could never make it right opposite an abusive lover, parent(s)(as was my case)and have had the misfortune of coming into young adulthood with severe depression, addiction of any type,panic attacks, agoraphobia, etc., etc. you will have to treat those issues, get the bad thoughts out of your brain, and build some sense of self-worth so that you can at least gain focus enough to truly apply The Now Habit. For reading on that I highly recommend:

Toxic Parents-Susan Forward; far from the sterotypical "mommy and daddy f-ed me up so bad"schtick, the tone of this seminal tome is patient-forward, with aims at confronting your past and healing via discovering and nourishing all things good in your own life,plus exorcising your inner demons by accepting the risk of possibly going to hell in some fashion for the price of your self-esteem; only when the soup boils over do you stand a chance being healthy for the first time. Coincidentally also contains a section on procrastination

Dealing with Negative People-by Eddie Chandler on Askmen.com; short but sweet, dishes out some of the more straightforward and applicable advice on the subject than is typically encountered

Why Men Love Bitches(Argov, Sherry)-before getting too perplexed, check out her chapter on being self-defined. You'll see why I've included this witty and refreshingly literate addition to the list

Lucky You(Fitzgerald, Randall)-last but not least, spending fifteen plus years feeling like the punchig bag of a capricious universe is TOO DAMN LONG; you deserve to benefit as much as possible from your own existence.

For the time being, recognize your power of options(pg.75)by saying to yourself "I choose to hit the library and/or get a good therapist instead of laying in bed watching TV because I have no desire waste any more time being miserable." If an avowed anti-hero like me could do it, so can you!!!!!!!!!

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