The now habit: a strategic program for overcoming procrastination and enjoying guilt-free play

The healthy individual has an appetite for fruitful activity and for a high quality of life.
—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The typical procrastinator completes most assignments on time, but the pressure of doing work at the last minute causes unnecessary anxiety and diminishes the quality of the end result

become workaholics (the flip side of procrastination) who treat all tasks as urgent while avoiding the few, priority projects that contribute

the pain of finding yourself, once again, at the end of another day and another week thinking, “I didn’t do any work on what matters most. I worked and kept busy, but I don’t know what I did.”

This has given me additional insights into what you, the reader, need in order to make the Now Habit a powerful tool in shifting you from a Procrastinator (or an overwhelmed workaholic) into an efficient Producer who wants greater work-life balance

Instead, you become like martial artists and peak-performing athletes who can push aside distracting thoughts and focus their attention on what they can do now

The Now Habit exercises help you break the cycle of procrastination by removing the stigma of calling yourself “a procrastinator”

It is your attempted solution to cope with tasks that are boring or overwhelming.

Procrastination is a habit you develop to cope with anxiety about starting or completing a task

The drive for success involves setting a goal, making it a high priority, and then investing time and energy toward its achievement.