By Tim Lott — 2012
Forget about learning from the past and applying those lessons to the future: reclaim and expand the present moment.
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Put off the essay, forget your laundry, and stop puttering around your apartment for no reason. Come to the Strand, and hear Professor John Perry talk about his book, The Art of Procrastination, a smart, offbeat look at how putting things off can mean getting things done.
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time.
WARNING: This book is not for the fain of heart, fawningly polite, or desperate to be liked.
Look at what’s happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It used to go like this: “How are you?” “Fine.” Now it often goes like this: “How are you?” “Busy.” Or “Too busy.” Or simply “Crazy.
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan—there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.
Featuring a new introduction and a new section providing strategies to understand and deal with the role technology plays in procrastination today, The Now Habit offers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr.
One of the questions from the audience at a recent Q&A: "How do I stop putting off the things I know I need to do?" Research shows that even though you relate to your procrastination as a way to avoid doing something, you actually put things on the back burner as a response to stress.
Using the science of habits, riveting stories and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, art and business, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a “push moment.” Then, she’ll give you one simple tool you can use to become your greatest self.