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The must-read summary of Neil Fiore's book: "The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play".
This complete summary of the ideas from Neil Fiore's book "The Now Habit" describes the act of procrastination and offers a strategic program providing you with the tools needed to move up a gear. This useful summary highlights how changing some habits of thought and taking control over your motivation will make you naturally more productive.
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To learn more, read "The Now Habit" and discover how you can stop putting off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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Book Presentation:The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
Summary of The Now Habit (Neil Fiore)
Book Presentation:The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
Despite the fact procrastination is a known drain on personal and organizational productivity, very few people ever take the time to define precisely what procrastination is.
A good working definition of procrastination is: “Procrastination is a mechanism which people use to cope with the anxiety or stress involved in starting new tasks or completing old ones.”
When you adopt this definition, it then becomes clear the key to overcoming procrastination isn’t the usual collection of clichés:
“Just get out and do more.”“Try harder.”“Get better organized.”“Stop being lazy.”Instead, to genuinely overcome procrastination you’ve got to deal with your more deeply seated inner dialogues and your own personal definitions of “failure”, “perfectionism” and “work ethic”. Instead of a collection of how-to advice and tactics, you need to have a strategic system in place which will give you the tools needed so you can mentally shift gears into a higher level of functioning. Once you take more control over the way you think about your work and motivate yourself, you will then naturally become more efficient and productive.
“The procrastination habit catches people in a vicious cycle: get overwhelmed, feel pressured, fear failure, try harder, work longer, feel resentful, lose motivation, and then procrastinate. The cycle starts with the pressure of being overwhelmed and ends with an attempt to escape through procrastination. As long as you’re caught in the cycle, there is no escape. Instead, you can cultivate the Now Habit: the ability to put aside the fear of failure, the terror of feeling overwhelmed, and low self-esteem, and focus your mind on what you can start now. The skills and strategies of the Now Habit program will let you think of yourself as a producer, feel like a producer, and act like a producer. To overcome procrastination, you need a positive attitude about the human spirit.”
– Neil Fiore
About the Author
NEIL FIORE is president of his own business consulting and executive coaching firm. Trained as a professional psychologist, Dr. Fiore has also served as a Lieutenant with the 101st Airborne Division, as a manager with Johnson & Johnson, as a Statistical Analyst for Shell Oil, and as a psychologist and career counselor at the UC Berkeley. As an executive coach, Dr. Fiore has worked with companies such as Bechtel, AT&T and Levi Strauss. He is the author or co-author of three books Awaken Your Strongest Self, Conquering Test Anxiety and The Road Back to Health. Dr. Fiore is a graduate of St. Peters College and the University of Maryland.
The Web site for this book is at www.neilfiore.com
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of The Now Habit (Neil Fiore)
1. Create a mental safety net
Realize that whatever happens, you will survive and keep moving forward with your life. Therefore, if you fall short from time to time, accept that and move forward. Don’t treat temporary setbacks like the end of the world.
Why do we procrastinate and put off doing what we know is good for us? There are actually loads of good sounding and reasonable reasons, including:
We procrastinate because our lives feel crowded with obligations to others – and therefore we assume that no matter how much we do, it won’t be enough so why bother starting.We’re unrealistic about how long things take – and thus we figuratively bite off more than we can chew.Our goals and values are too vague – we say “yes” to things we know deep down we should be saying “no” to.We’re perfectionists – and assume that if we can’t do something exactly right, we might as well not even attempt it.We’re afraid of being criticized by others
