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It's About Time!: The Six Styles of Procrastination and How to Overcome Them

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As a lifelong procrastinator on her way down the hill, I have read MANY books on this subject as I try to conquer my problem. This book is the best for me. Others who criticize the categorization may not realize that no one fits into one niche. Because I fit into three categories, I do the exercises for all of them. The visualization exercises are so powerful they bring me to tears! I don't understand why, as they are abstract, but my reaction tells me they are hitting the mark.

I have improved my productivity greatly by DOING the exercises in this book. For me, learning the causes behind my behavior helped me to make better use of my time, most days now! For the rest of them, I have learned to be more forgiving and not become frozen in the self-blame and guilt that contribute to the problem. Each day is not just another day to put things off, but another day to try again!

This was not my first nor last book on procrastination. If you're like me, you read self-help books seeking out the little nugget of gold that is going to help make your life better once you put into practice your newfound wisdom. That's just what I find with Linda Sapadin's book.

While others may frown upon her mode of classification, its forgivable given the mountainous job it is to delve into the psychology of just one person. As a procrastinator, I used books on organization, goal setting and self-motivation. But Sapadin's book helped me to locate the "real" reason I was accomplishing less than I am fully capable of achieving.

I joyfully recommend this book to anyone still grappling with issues of procrastination. You may not like being stereotyped, but your can easily overlook that once you get the results you're after, less procrastinating and more "getting things done".

This book is great. It teaches you how to overcome your procrastination, based on your personality style. What is a good tip for me (a perfectionist) may not be a good one for someone else (a crisis-maker). The author described me to a tee in several scenarios.

The book contains a test to help you indentify your procrastination styles from among the six, which I found very enlightening. The sections that identify the causes of procrastination and ways to overcome them were extremely useful and produced very clear results. Highly recommended.

I have mixed feelings about this book (I guess a three star review usually means that).

If you are just realizing that you procrastinate, then this is a good book to start with - it puts a large focus on identifying styles of procrastination. This can be useful, and the stories - that seemed all too believable - that emphasize the effects of procrastination definitely make an impact.

However, if you are pretty aware of your styles of procrastination and thought-habits around it (I was when I read this), then I am not sure that it is very helpful. For example, when I took the "style quiz", I found that I scored fairly highly for several styles, but not super-highly for any of them. So... everything "sort of" applies... which means that the division into styles was only a bit helpful for me.

I didn't find that this book led to significant changes in habits or significant new insights. Still, some of the stories have stayed with me, so... it's a three star book.

If you are just at the stage of admitting that you procrastinate - well, I'd say buy this book! Otherwise, don't...

This is a very useful book for those who are actually concerned with a personal problem of procrastination. You do not waste your time by reading it. It can actually help, because of the competence of the author, her capability to find the right words to suggest problems and ideas that can support people in their autoanalysis.

This book is an excellent and the only thing that would make it even better is if the author produced audio tapes for the visualization sessions to save the readers from having to make their own. Everyone I know would benefit from digesting this book except perhaps Bill Gates

Straight forward look at diff. procrastination styles. The key to solving a problem is to understand the problem and this book does a thorough job towards understanding the problem of procrastination. Bottom line- it helped me.

As a practicing psychotherapist, I found this book useful both with my patients and for myself. I particularly like the easy-to-read style and the way the authors have divided procrastinators into six different types ­­ so that everyone fits into one or another category, and there's practical help for each one of them.

Really encouraging. This book help me to identify the styles that I fit into and exercises to free myself. I really did not know that being a profectionist was a procrastinator.