Crash Course On Getting Things Done Now: 17 Proven Principals for Overcoming Procrastination

by Lisa Tresch

Getting Things Done Now will walk the reader through the causes, the excuses, and the steep costs that plague procrastinators, and then quickly transition into the positive action steps that are proven to help people get things done now, including realistic goal setting and everything else needed to start achieving great things today. The book even helps the reader understand how to respond and take charge if they slip back into patterns of procrastination.

Genres: Self Help

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 2006

Reviews

[Miru C · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was in turn another way to procrastinate from tasks I was feeling overwhelmed about, and a motivating push to actually do get some things done. As a lifelong procrastinator that grew up without any discipline and had some perfectionist tendencies on top of that, this book helped me put all that anti procrastination advice I had received/ read in order and also provided some other valuable resources to check.
All in all, I think I'll come back to it from time to time in order to get that little reassurance and push again.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, I don't consider myself a procrastinator. However, sometimes, I see myself procrastinating and do not know what the cause is. This book gives very good insight into why you might be procrastinating and things to do about it. A few of the points surprised me about what procrastinating is and does.

[Nura Yusof · Rating 2 out of 5]

Am I really a procrastinator? Or just someone choosy with her projects?

Chapters 5 through 7 reads like a book called The Story of My Life. I have about 20 books that I'm just reading half way through. I do tend to postpone completion of projects until probably the final week before the deadline is due.

And yet, I can put away books in one sitting. I'm nearly always prompt with paying bills and if I really like something, I will do whatever's necessary to either get it, complete it or deal with it.

And yet despite these conflicting habits, I still do wonder whether I am a procrastinator or just someone who needs to be interested in whatever she's doing? Heck, if I'm delaying something, chances are it's coz' I don't like doing it. Even though I have to.

[Viraj · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to audiobook. Useful for the folks who sit on things that take little time and pile up work in their to-do list and making them more busy. More importantly, this tendancy affect's one's performance and clutters mind. A better book / audiobook is the one by Rita Emmett.

[Joe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a decent summary of reasons why people procrastinate and strategies for overcoming procrastination.

[Samuel Nutter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this book two years ago. Finally read it. Needless to say I needed this book. :)