Procrastination : why you do it, what to do about it now

✍ Scribed by Burka, Jane B.; Yuen, Lenora M

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books;Da Capo/Life Long
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: Lifelong books
• Edition: 25th anniversary ed., fully rev. and updated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on their workshops and counseling experience, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and at times humorous look at a problem that affects everyone: students and scientists, secretaries and executives, homemakers and salespeople. 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 program 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part I: Understanding procrastination --
Procrastination : nuisance or nemesis? --
Fear of failure : the procrastinator on trial --
Fear of success : hello procrastination, good-bye success --
The procrastinator in combat : fear of losing the battle --
The comfort zone : fear of separation and fear of intimacy --
Do you know what time (it) is? --
Current neuroscience : the big ideas --
Procrastination and your brain --
How you came to be a procrastinator --
Looking ahead to success --
Part II: Overcoming procrastination --
Taking stock : a procrastination inventory --
Setting and achieving goals --
Learning how to tell time --
Learning to say yes and no --
Using your body to reduce procrastination --
Tips for procrastinators with ADD and executive dysfunction --
Neither here nor there : procrastination and the cross-cultural experience --
Living and working with procrastinators.

✦ Subjects

Procrastination. PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.