Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It NowA practical, tested program to overcome procrastination by achieving set goals, managing time, enlisting support, and handling stress. A must have for anyone who puts things off until tomororw. 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. Wise, effective, and easy-to-use, 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. Burka and Yuen even provide tips on living and working with the procrastinators you may know. |
Contents
YOUR BRAIN IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING | |
WIRED TO RELATE | |
How You Came to Be a Procrastinator | |
Looking Ahead to Success | |
PART TWO OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION | |
Taking Stock A Procrastination Inventory | |
Setting and Achieving Goals | |
Learning How to Tell Time | |
Learning to Say Yes and | |
Using Your Body to Reduce Procrastination | |
Tips for Procrastinators with ADD and Executive Dysfunction | |
Neither Here nor There Procrastination and the CrossCultural | |
Living and Working with Procrastinators | |
Epilogue | |
APPENDIX B A Short List of Techniques for Managing Procrastination | |
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Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now Jane Burka,Lenora M. Yuen No preview available - 2007 |
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