Procrastination
Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now
Grand Central Publishing · Print & ebook · December 23, 2008
A practical, tested program to overcome procrastination by achieving set goals, managing time, enlisting support, and handling stress.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers seeking practical strategies to overcome procrastination
- Themes
- procrastination, self-improvement, psychology
- Pacing
- Steady
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A 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.
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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.
Who it’s for
- Readers seeking practical strategies to overcome procrastination
- Individuals interested in psychological insights into behavior
Where it sits
| Time Management | 77% |
|---|---|
| Managing Stress | 51% |
| Compulsive Behavior | 32% |
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Publisher categories
- Time Management
- Personal Success
- Applied Psychology
- Authors
- Jane Burka, Lenora M. Yuen, Jane B. Burka
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- December 23, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- procrastination · self-improvement · psychology
- Reading lane
- Time Management