The Now Habit
Neil Fiore · Strategies to overcome procrastination and get work done with less anxiety and stress.
9 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore offers tools to overcome procrastination and start tasks. It helped me understand my resistance and find ways to move forward.
I struggle with procrastination and learning the underlying causes are what helped me make huge progress. I cannot recommend "The Now Habit" enough
The Now Habit really helped me let go of procrastination being my fault, and just seeing it as a systemic side effect of my approach.
this one book that changed my perspective on procrastination and personal productivity. And being more productive can be pretty life changing IMHO.
The biggest thing that has helped me is a book - "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore.
At the very least it helped me identify the things I wanted to do and do them.
Neil Fiore's book The Now Habit helped me quite a bit with procrastination
It helped me understand and break the procrastination cycle.
the book helped me to understand that I was feeling overwhelmed about the gigantic ideas and the unrealistic deadlines I was imposing to myself.
Description from Open Library
Originally published by Tarcher in 1988, The Now Habit has sold more than 58,000 copies, and is as relevant as ever!Author Neil Fiore offers the first comprehensive strategy to overcome the causes of procrastination and to eliminate its deleterious effects. His techniques will help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by failure to meet the workplace's pressing deadlines.This revised, redesigned edition includes a new introduction and a section that provides strategies to understand and deal with the complex role technology plays in procrastination today.
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you procrastinate, blame yourself for it, and want to understand why.
- Explained why you procrastinate
- Removed guilt and self-blame
- Gave tools to start tasks
Style
Practical tools · 215 pages
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