#productivity
Procrastination is a habit you develop to cope with anxiety about starting or completing a task. It is your attempted solution to cope with tasks that are boring or overwhelming. When you use the Now Habit strategies to lower your anxiety, fears, and self-doubts, you can stop using procrastination as an escape and can double your productivity and, often, double your income. When you learn to work efficiently – in the Flow State or Zone, using more of your brain-cell power – you have less reason to avoid important, top-priority tasks.
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The Now Habit Reviews. Let’s dig in and see what’s inside that we can directly apply to our lives.
Digging Into The Now Habit
Right off the bat, Fiore dissolves the entire premise of the book down into one paragraph:
<span>Procrastination is a habit you develop to cope with anxiety about starting or completing a task. It is your attempted solution to cope with tasks that are boring or overwhelming. When you use the Now Habit strategies to lower your anxiety, fears, and self-doubts, you can stop using procrastination as an escape and can double your productivity and, often, double your income. When you learn to work efficiently – in the Flow State or Zone, using more of your brain-cell power – you have less reason to avoid important, top-priority tasks.
In other words, this book is full of tricks to break the procrastination habit, which is mostly a psychological roadblock. But how do we do that?
Chapter 1: Why We Procrasti Summary
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