Assess – What feelings lead to procrastinating, and how does it make you feel? Are these positive, productive feelings: do you want to change them?

Andreou, C., and M. D. White, eds. 2010. The thief of time: Philosophical essays on procrastination. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Willpower is physiological as much as psychological. Willpower isn’t just in your head, it’s in your body, too. This explains why energy, deep breathing, stress, and other factors are so crucial. Two of my favorite strategies that use visual cues are The Paper Clip Strategy, which is helpful for beating procrastination day-after-day, and The Seinfeld Strategy, which is great for maintaining consistency over longer periods of time. Where to Go From Here The Anxiety and Worry Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution. This book, written by two professors and practitioners who are leading authorities on the topic of CBT, is a comprehensive source on the topic, and contains many guidelines, exercises, and worksheets that show you how to implement CBT one step at a time. The main point here is that our ability to make daily decisions is limited. So when we have to make more and more decisions (even about small things), we tend to become indecisive and procrastinate.

The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle is a book written by Timothy A. Pychyl that discusses the different factors that contribute to procrastination and offers possible solutions to overcoming it.

The Willpower Instinct is easily the best book on willpower out there. It offers a complete crash course on everything you need to know to build real self-discipline (and self-discipline is the one thing that will make all the difference in the long-run).

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Unless you are one of the 1% of the population who never puts off tasks when they should not, there are great procrastination books that will help give you to the tools to accomplish many tasks without procrastination. Eat That Frog! is a self-help book by Brian Tracy that discusses the importance of productivity and offers 21 techniques for becoming more productive. The myths surrounding building a daily routine are limitless. But in The 5 AM Club, Sharma shares insider tactics that turn serial procrastinators into high-achievers.

When it comes to overcoming procrastination, CBT can be beneficial both when it comes to dealing with procrastinatory behaviors directly, as well as when it comes to dealing with underlying issues that lead to procrastination, such as anxiety or depression. Accordingly, CBT-based interventions have been shown to help people deal with their procrastination. He believes that waking up early in the morning leaves us feeling inspired, focused, and full of drive. After all, the early bird catches the worm, as the saying goes. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson That's what Kevin Kruse suggests in his book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task. Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.Steel, P. 2012. The procrastination equation: How to stop putting things off and start getting things done. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Sometimes even fear of success and dealing with the subsequent changes in our lives can have a similar impact. He argues that procrastination is not simply laziness or avoidance, but rather a complex behavior with many benefits. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies. This book, written by two CBT therapists, is meant to serve as an overview of CBT, that will help you understand how it works and how you can implement it to solve your own problems.Procrastination can be a tough problem to handle, so you want to make sure you have the right material guiding you. The differences between a true procrastinator and the occasional “slip-up” lays somewhere between the frequency of procrastination and the importance of what is procrastinated. Procrastination is not a matter, solely, of having poor time management skills, either, but rather can be traced to underlying and more complex psychological reasons. These dynamics are often made worse by schools where students are constantly being evaluated, and especially in college where the pressure for grades is high and a lot can be riding on students' performance. In reality, procrastination is often a self-protection strategy for students. For example, if you procrastinate, then you always have the excuse of "not having enough" time in the event that you fail, so your sense of your ability is never threatened. When there is so much pressure on getting a good grade on, say, a paper, it's no wonder that students want to avoid it and so put off their work. For the most part, our reasons for delaying and avoiding are rooted in fear and anxiety-about doing poorly, of doing too well, of losing control, of looking stupid, of having one's sense of self or self-concept challenged. We avoid doing work to avoid our abilities being judged. And, if we happened to succeed, we feel that much "smarter." So, what can we do to overcome our tendencies to procrastinate? Awareness: The First Step Below are some additional recommendations for good books that explain the psychology of procrastination and how to stop procrastinating: