Doing It Now [Mass Market Paperback]

Edwin C. Bliss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1984

Listeners can get more done and stop postponing their professional successes. A durable vinyl portfolio case contains a special magnetic memo pad and pen, two 8-page booklets, and 6 cassettes.

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About the Author

Edwin C. Bliss is an internationally recognised expert on time management who lectures extensively and works as a business consultant. He is the author of GETTING THINGS DONE

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Bliss and the other narrators make this an interesting and complete prescription for that age-old problem, PROCRASTINATION. This set of tapes gives many sound ways to motivate oneself. The use of more than one narrator maintains interest, and the assignments at the end of each segment are key to the effectiveness of the audio format. The sequence of material naturally leads the listener down the path of accomplishment and presents a multitude of ways to get oneself motivated. This is a must for any collection of self-improvement tapes. L.E. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam (September 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553278754
• ISBN-13: 978-0553278750
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,718,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical how to overcome procrastination, April 20, 2008

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Douglas Setter (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Doing It Now (Mass Market Paperback)

Like the course by the same name, this book is so simple to follow. Unlike some procrastination books that I have read, Doing It Now gets to the heart of the problem and offers solutions. For instance, much of procrastination is fear of failure, fear of success and poor self-worth. The book points out that most important, life-changing tasks are like bitter medicine. Basically, you have to do them. I liked the different procrastination-busting techniques like the salami technique (break the big project task down into small bite-sized tasks), Journaling (write down your progress), the 5-minute rule (do anything for 5 minutes to warm you up), the unpopular task first/last, small rewards (my favorite) and self analysis. I have used the techniques to get me through university. (Which was quite a task for a guy in his 40's who got Cs in high school.) I even used the techniques to finish reading behaviorism text books and boring academic books on over-coming procrastination. The book is not a free ride. It still takes a bit of work, but it does get you on the right track. Highly recommended.

Doug Setter, Bsc.
Author of Stomach Flattening and One Less Victim: A Prevention Guide

16 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A KEY COMPONENT IN TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE, February 16, 1999

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This review is from: Doing It Now (Mass Market Paperback)

With this book, Edwin Bliss has gotten to the heart of understanding and having victory over procrastination. I see it as a key factor in one taking control over his own life. The importance of this topic cannot be underestimated, for without focussed and consistent action towards one's goal and dreams, they will not come true. Moreover, Bliss has crafted an extremely practical set of tools- ones that anyone can immediately put to use and begin reaping benefits. Two practical books to read in conjuction with this one are David Schwartz's "The Magic of Thinking Big", and Anthony Robbin's "Awaken the Giant Within". Don't be put off by Robin's infomercial approach (you don't have to spend $100's on his programs to tap his brain). Robbins really has captured a great number of priceless nuggets. Jose Silva's work on mind control has also made some highly valuable contributions, particularly in his triad foundation of understanding and generating desire, belief and expectation, even without all his work at the subconcious level. These all build to make one powerful program for positive change.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! No fooling around!, March 6, 2011

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This review is from: Doing It Now (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is fantastic for those looking to get a healthy dose of reality! The author presents the material in a Q&A fashion & really makes it easy to read, but very blunt @ times about the ideas behind procrastination & the 'disease' that it is! Highly reccomend to anyone looking to get out of the old mentality & wanting to have more in life.