Procrastination

Why You Do It, What to Do About It

by Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen

		Publisher: Copyright © 1983, 2008 by Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen Published by Da Capo Press, subsidiary of Perseus Books LLC This Edition: 2nd Edition, 2008 First Edition: 1983 ISBN: 978-0738211701 No. pages: 272 Category: Career & Self-Development

In this summary you will learn

What makes people procrastinate
How fear-generated, flawed thinking causes procrastination
How to eliminate procrastination from your life

Why you should read Procrastination

Approaching unwelcome tasks with an “I’ll do it tomorrow” mindset is not unusual behavior. The problem is, tomorrow quickly becomes today, so the procrastinator sets a new tomorrow goal. This tomorrow goal eventually becomes a next week goal, then a next month goal, then a next year goal – that is, a never goal. Time runs out for everyone, but it does so far more quickly for procrastinators. If you procrastinate, do you know why? Psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen outline the reasons and roots of procrastination. More importantly, they show you how to fix your vexing, life-sapping procrastination problem. getAbstract suggests that anyone who procrastinates should buy this book. Now would be fine.

About the Authors

Jane B. Burka, Ph.D., and Lenora M. Yuen, Ph.D., are psychologists who organized the first U.S. procrastination treatment group at the University of California at Berkeley.

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