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Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: ToDo Institute; First Edition edition (October 30, 2014)
From reading your book from cover to cover, I have gained further insight into what procrastination looks like and how I allow its behaviors to shape me. Where most people only engage in procrastinating occasionally, I have been a procrastinator for some time and that’s where your book continually helps me, tackling problems from the start! Time passes very quickly in life and your book reinforces for me not to trivialize procrastination as it can threaten my life, health, and happiness and my failure to maximize my potential. Your book helps me to understand what kind of procrastination behaviors I practice, to understand the underlying reasons I may engage with them and provides support and ideas for challenging the accompanying characteristics that negatively impact upon my life. Thank you for the privilege and overwhelming experience of participating in your Taking Action course and reading your book, that I consider a very valuable resource, and which I will read daily. I am better equipped now to tackle my ‘demons’, to confidently co-exist with them, instead of fighting them, and to take action. They may be very small steps, but concrete steps of action that pave a new path to help me reach my fullest potential in the future. I give this book 5 stars. Sue
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
The Art of Taking Action is a book full of inspiration and practical advice to overcome obstacles in life that prevent us from taking actions. We, as human beings, constantly struggle to move forward in life, not always due to our physical limitations but because of those barriers that are psychological in nature. As the book explains, fear, perfectionism, boredom, indecision, and procrastination, are some of the reasons we fail to take necessary actions in our life. This book, using key principles from Japanese psychology (including Morita, Naikan, and Kaizen), teaches us very practical methods to overcome those barriers so we can "do what needs to be done in life.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I studied with Gregg Krech at the ToDo Institute in Vermont and can highly recommend this book as a further extension of his deep wisdom and knowledge of Japanese therapies. As a licensed, clinical psychologist trained in Western approaches myself, I was moved to shift my own therapeutic methods after studying with Greg and reading his other book, Naikan. Buddhist-oriented practices related to mental health and well-being continue to be supported by a growing body of research from many sources, including the Dalai Lama's Mind and Life Institute. Gregg Krech's The Art of Taking Action is an accessible way into this approach for those who do not have a Buddhist orientation or meditation practice themselves, asking only that people be willing to take small steps toward modifying their actions in order to, as Morita therapy explains, help "wag the tail of feelings." A welcome addition to the Eastern psychology literature, and as helpful to lay people as to practitioners.
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The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology by Gregg Krech is a reflection of a blend of Japanese philosophies including Morita therapy, Kaizen and Naikan. Instead of the typical linear, checklist book on accomplishing procrastinated projects, the book takes a perspective of taking action in a small, easily accomplished manner.
I recently completed a course through the ToDo Institute on Taking Action. Having procrastinated for many years on a large, family project (organizing 2000 photos), I was tired of always looking at the boxes of unsorted photos and feeling guilty. The course, along with the concepts written in Gregg's book, assisted me to just 'start'. And five minutes on a regular daily basis added up to a major sorting of the photos. Though I'm not totally finished, I have accomplished more in the program's one month, than I have in the last 10 years. I would highly recommend this book, and give it Amazon's 5 stars!
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To put it simply, this book can change your life if you read it and implement what it offers. It is common sense, offers no magic but is so powerful in looking at life as it really is and giving us the skills to navigate through what can be overwhelming or get us through when we feel "stuck". It is so easy for me to get bogged down into all those feelings call life, but what do I do with them? This book is one I will continue to come back to remind there is a way out. For those times I need some help, this is the book to go to. It gives me the steps to do. What are those steps? This book is an easy read to get you to move to a different place from where you are. If you keep moving, one step at a time you are going to grow. Recommended book to give to people you love who are on a journey to live a move sane and loving life.
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More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha pointed out that misery accrues to one who would “leave undone what should be done.” So even that long ago, it seems people had trouble taking action, and the situation has not improved—it can often seem life in the modern world is a matter of having too much to do, too little time to do it, and too many tasks and distractions competing for our attention. Yet despite all this, our success and wellbeing comes largely from being able to do what needs doing. In “The Art of Taking Action,” Gregg Krech has not just pointed out the importance of action to our lives, but formulated a system for deciding what truly “should be done” and then overcoming the obstacles that get in the way of following through. Happily, Krech not only has a grasp on what it takes to get going and keep going, he also has a gift for making Japanese wisdom both accessible and interesting to read.
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