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The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play Paperback – Illustrated, April 5, 2007

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Learn how to overcome procrastination and enjoy guilt-free play! One of the most effective programs to combat procrastination, THE NOW HABIT has sold over 100,000 copies, has been translated into 11 languages, and is now revised and updated.

Featuring a new introduction and a new section providing strategies to understand and deal with the role technology plays in procrastination today, THE NOW HABIToffers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore’s techniques will help any busy person start tasks sooner and accomplish them more quickly, without the anxiety brought on by the negative habits of procrastination and perfectionism.

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224 pages
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English
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TarcherPerigee
Publication date

April 5, 2007
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5.58 x 0.6 x 8.25 inches
ISBN-10

1585425524
ISBN-13

978-1585425525
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cyberjay

Finally, enjoy your life - buy, borrow, or take this book! Don't wait! Don't wait!

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2012

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No matter what review you read or how you slice this book's content, you will gain enough insight to cover the cost, again - no matter what. Buy it. Don't hesitate - buy it. Or try to find it at the library, even the previous version will do. Steal it from a friend - just get this book asap!

At first I hesitated to read the reviews, because "The Now Habit" just sounded so gimmicky to me. I shudder to think that I would have missed out on finally changing something so close to my core that I never realized it was the root of so much anxiety and lower quality of life.

After reading reviews, I was well... desperate to buy this book. But being cheap and using the super saver option, I was told it would take 8-10 days to get here. So I immediately looked it up at the library, and they had a copy! So I raced down to the city library and signed it out. I was alarmed at the publish date... in the late 80's! Uggg, I had found the previous version. Weighing the investment of time (in reading a version of a self-help book 23 years old), I figured I should probably just read the older version and compare it to the newer version one it arrived.

I was absolutely stunned that this book is perfectly timeless. Reading this previous version just enhanced how potent and accurate the concepts are in this book. I found myself thinking... I could have had a completely different life if I'd found this book all those years ago.

When the new version arrived, I actually couldn't find any difference. There were probably some edits in there somewhere, but even the names and references in some of the charting tools were the same. So I (and you) would do perfectly as well finding that older version at the library. Again, I know I'm probably being annoying at this point - find ANY copy of this book!

The Now Habit does focuses on the root - it deals with the REASONS we procrastinate. It approaches procrastination for what it is - a symptom of a past experience, an irrational fear, or a variety of other reasons. Finally I've found a book that fixes the real problem. The bad habits just melt away afterwards.

I wish I could attach an emotion to my review, to explain how life changing this book was for me. I am a person who deals with concepts and practical wisdom. Dealing with symptoms or gimmicks will never work on me. I need to know what's at the root so that I can change my frame of mind from the ground up.

I am so much happier now and enjoy my time. There's so much less anxiety in my life now - I've pretty much done all that I was procrastinating. I've never felt this way before, and I'm 40.

If you still aren't convinced to buy, at least check the library. Borrow it, buy it, steal it... get this book!

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Interesting at times, repetitive and slightly boring near the end

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2013

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The Now Habit came recommended, though I forgot from whom. It had been on my shelf for a while and I decided to pick up a "time-management-related" book again as it had been a while. The book started out reasonably well, but to me it was downhill in the end.I had to struggle to read through the last chapters and in the end I left with not a very positive feeling. Thus, if you read it, start, but you don't need to finish it (focus on starting is actually advise in the book).

The book had a slightly different focus than I expected. The books focus in only on overcoming procrastination and not so much about time management. The book is divided in 9 chapters and totals about 200 pages or so.

The first chapter is called "Why we procrastinate" and it looks at the deeper reasons for procrastination. It stresses one of the key messages in the book, which is that people who procrastinate are not lazy or stupid (negative view) but there is something that causes them to procrastinate and we'll need to tackle these causes. The author claims that the largest cause is a fear of failure.

The second chapter is called "How we procrastinate" and tries to help you identify your procrastination. It also introduces the "procrastination log" which is a concrete tool that you can use to discover when and how you are procrastinating on which tasks so that you can use that information for discovering the deeper underlying causes.

Chapter 3 to 6 are concrete tools for overcoming procrastination. Chapter three starts with probably the hardest part which is how you view and talk to yourself -- your self talk. How you can change that and how that will impact you. Chapter four introduces the importance of "guilt-free play" or just enjoying your non-work time and explains how that time is creating energy for work tasks. Chapter five introduces three common blocks and tools for overcoming them, while chapter six takes one of those tools called "the unschedule" and explains it in detail.

Chapter 7 to 9 felt a bit off to me and I started losing interest in the book during these chapters. Chapter 7 is about working in the flow state, but it basically shares relaxation exercises in which the author claims you can more quickly enter the flow state. Chapter eight is called "fine-tuning your progress" and it felt a bit of a left-over chapter. Then chapter nine looks at procrastination not from yourself but from working with procrastinators. Most of the focus was on work-relationships and the work-relation described felt a bit too traditional to me.

The first chapter I was a bit unsure, the second I liked, but then chapter three to six were pretty good. I wish the book was over there, but unfortunately after that came chapter seven which was still ok, but the last two chapters I had lost interest in the book completely. Because of that, I wouldn't really recommend the book. I was thinking about four stars in the earlier chapters and two in the end, so I've ended up averaging them and give the book three stars. If you have problems with procrastination, then read chapter 1-6 (though you probably never start ;p). If not and looking at just time management and self-planning techniques, then this book is perhaps not for you.

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柳絮降り積もる小径

Life changing book!

Reviewed in Japan on April 16, 2015

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I'm Japanese.
This book is very helpful for me.
I was a procrastinator with a lot of fears in my mind.
This book changed my mind and my life.

There is only abridged translation in Japanese.
So, I read original text, fortunately.

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Mike Shinn

A Revelation!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2020

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I have spent a lifetime reading self-help books on time management, productivity, etc. to no avail. In fact, every time I read a new book I eventually became even more depressed than before about the apparent hopelessness of ever overcoming my chronic procrastination. A while ago I bought the audiobook of The Now Habit and listened to it each night, often falling asleep when it was on. I therefore had to keep rewinding and listening again, until I finally completed the book, but it didn't capture my enthusiasm. Then recently, after weeks of Covid-19 lockdown, non-achievement and rock-bottom self esteem, I listened to the audiobook again. It was a revelation! Neil Fiore, I realised, was someone who really understood the mind of procrastinators and had clearly understood and found practical workable solutions to unblocking the obstacles to progress in the minds of procrastinators, thus releasing their stifling inhibitions and setting them free. I can now finally envision the clouds lifting. I have just bought the paperback version for easy reference (disappointingly poor paper and thin cover) and I am all set to start enjoying life again, in spite of the virus and all our other trials and tribulations.
Don't dither about this book. Just get it. It just leaves the competition in a cloud of dust. If you're not enthused after the first read, read it again - you will be!

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sdh

Avoid this book. Repetitive waffle, not concise or accessible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2020

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Worst book I’ve ever read. Only review I’ve ever written in Amazon, felt compelled as it really is such utter rubbish.
Just repetitive++++ waffle about how the book is GOING TO do wonderful things for me, but by halfway through the book still hadn’t actually offered anything. Second half finally had some longwinded suggestions which were either obvious (try breaking up a large task into smaller ones) or unworkable (suggesting that people who are having problems being organised and completing tasks solve that problem by spending lots of time filling out forms and schedules for themselves reviewing their activities over weeks... if we could do that, we wouldn’t have a problem with procrastination!?).
Also suggests procrastination essentially only happens due to a drive for perfection or to express resentment, and that procrastinators usually think they’re lazy. Which is nonsense and not true, at least for me!
I beg you to avoid this book. It will not help you.

9 people found this helpful

SAL

Excellent book and well worth taking detailed notes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2018

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Fantastic Book. Make sure you take detailed notes while reading so that you can refer back to them at a later date.

I would also recommend this with another book "Procrastination" by Jane Burka

I would recommend taking detailed notes from the book and implementing them stage by stage. The most important for me was the "Unschedule" It will help you to reassess your mental blocks when working

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Mrs L M Goodall

A brilliant book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2018

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I wish I had read this years ago - I got one copy for my daughter, then one for me. It's made me realise how much we can put off "living". thinking we have to work harder all the time. Amazingly helpful for anyone who is frozen with fear because of anxiety. A must-read.

Only problem was that it delivered very quickly, but then I got emails telling me that a courier "had delivered" it late at night days later!

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