Over 100,000 copies sold worldwide, The End of Procrastination offers science-based, practical tools to stop procrastination Even with overflowing inboxes and unmet deadlines, most people still can’t manage to take control of their time and stop procrastinating. The End of Procrastination tackles the problem head on, helping you stop putting off work and reclaim your time. Author Petr Ludwig … reclaim your time. Author Petr Ludwig shows that ending procrastination is essential to developing a sense of purpose and leading a happier more fulfilled life.
With eight clear, approachable tools?from quick daily worksheets to shift your perspective to to-do lists that actually help you get things done?The End of Procrastination provides everything you need to change the way you manage your time and live your life.
The book will help you learn:
– The science behind why we postpone things
– How we can motivate ourselves so that we enjoy our work, feel less stressed, and focus more
– How to avoid becoming a goal junkie?a high achieving but unsatisfied person
– How to organize your daily life and follow your vision
– How to acquire new positive habits and end bad ones
– How to cope with decision paralysis
Based on the latest research, The End of Procrastination synthesizes over one hundred and twenty scientific studies to create a program that is based on the way our brains actually work. By understanding exactly why procrastination happens and how our brains respond to motivation and self-discipline, the book provides readers with the knowledge to conquer procrastination on an everyday basis.
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This book had helped me overcome procrastination!!! It gave me steps to take to start the overwhelming amount of work I had to do. I spring cleaned my whole house, cleaned up all of the trash in my yard, and my home is staying clean. I am happier and productive.
Peter Ludwig’s important new book, The End of Procrastination, provides endlessly brilliant insights into the nature of this phenomenon as well as timely advice on overcoming the barriers to productivity that procrastination erects. Read it, and refashion your thinking about this problem, and share with others who need to be more Doers than just mental tinkerers.
I am a procrastinator. I admit it. It is something I struggle with daily. Once I have begun I can make progress on a project, until I run out of steam. It is the beginning and staying motivated and not becoming distracted that derail my results.
For that reason, I seem to love to read about goal setting and procrastination cures and even use that “study” as a way to procrastinate.
Well, this book and method may actually help get me back on track and moving forward.
Well researched and footnoted, using plenty of scientific data, studies and references, much of which I have admittedly come across before, the book is not written in text book speak. It has a conversational, nonthreatening style. Besides telling us about the method, and showing it for easier and longer lasting retention, this book explains in easily understood wording why these steps work.
The author also offers links to downloadble additional resources.
Don’t expect to read through this book quickly and be “cured” of your procrastination habits. It is designed to be referred back to and used as reinforcement. There are restart methods built into the system. I suggest reading through it completely, getting supplies so you can keep track of your efforts and actions, and then read it again, more slowly, taking action and building habits as you read. Later you will be able to better access your results and can reread sections with which you need more support.
Thank you to Netgalley and St Martin’s Press for allowing me to read this copy.
I do feel as if the book is making me think more clearly about my daily choices and actions taken.
The End of Procrastination
How to Stop Postponing and Live a Fulfilled Life
by Petr Ludwig and Adela Schicker
Procrastination has become a natural part of the human conditioning. The End of Procrastination has a surplus of good, self-improvement information concerning procrastination. As the readers progressed to the specifics and the science of procrastination, it is easy to understand. I was expecting a regular pop-culture style of book about goal setting and procrastination cures.
It is more of awareness-charting exercise that is often used by imaginative people to generate ideas. I saw this book, I was thrilled it was thin, thinking that I could get through it quickly; but DO NOT expect to read through this book quickly, take your time, absorb the material and do the exercises and absorb each of the steps. It is designed to be referred to and used as reinforcement of methods discussed.
The author’s Petr Ludwig and Adela Schicker; show the importance of taking steps to apply the science. The authors have an intention of changing a person’s life by going beyond the realm of just changing habits; but changing the readers approach and have a complete set of tools to help end procrastination broken up onto four sections:
1. Using Motivation; time is finite, don’t waste it! Creating a personal vision for personal satisfaction.
2. Being Disciplined; take actions that are in keeping with your personal vision.
3. The Outcomes of Your Actions; the emotional or material results from your actions.
4. Objectivity and False Perceptions; reduce prejudices to see reality more clearly, where you can make improvements.
I would encourage readers to visit each section and take good notes on how to approach each section and apply it to ending their procrastination.
I was excited to be granted an advanced copy of this book, to get into the phycological aspect of why and how to deal with procrastination. I was engrossed with the wealth of psychological and scientific research presented, backing up the authors approach in this book. It is certainly a good read and I would happily recommend it to anyone who: 1.might see their own procrastination as an impairment, 2. people that enjoys learning about how to improve themselves or 3. if a person is self-employed and needs to motivate themselves to work.
The End of Procrastination is well-researched with footnotes, using amply scientific data, studies and references; which makes the book read more like a college textbook with a conversational in tone. The vocabulary seems to indicate this book is envisioned for academics and training professionals to help others. The book is concise and well organized the authors have researched human behavior and have come up with a composite of intentional actions to do to prevent getting into the mindset of procrastination.
St Martin’s Press for allowing me to read an advanced copy and I what to thank not only the publisher; but, also the authors. I will give the author’s and their book a 4-star rating, because of the depth of the terminology used; most people do not have the ability to grasps some psychological terms.
I received a copy of this story from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I go through bouts of procrastination – always have – and so I was thrilled to be granted an advanced copy of this book! At first, I struggled with the author’s voice; it was a bit of a turn-off for me. But as I continued and progressed into the specifics and the science of procrastination, that kind of faded to the background.
Petr was great at highlighting actionable steps to take to utilise the science. He has a toolbox full of tools to help end procrastination and it’s very easy to understand. The reason I didn’t give this book more stars is because nothing felt earth-shattering. Also, I stepped away for a few days during vacation and picked it up to finish later and I’d forgotten most of the points that had been made.
It was certainly a good read and I’d happily recommend it to anyone who:
– sees their procrastination as an impediment
– enjoys learning
– is self-employed and needs to motivate themselves