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Are you always late or Product Description In this groundbreaking book, the world’s leading expert on procrastination, Dr Piers Steel, reveals the truth about why procrastinate – and shows us what we can do about it.
Using a powerful mix of psychology, science, self-help, and a decade of his own research, Dr Steel shows us what effect procrastination has on our lives, and offers real hope to sufferers everywhere.
New to this revised edition, Dr Steel shows exactly how to apply the techniques in common problem areas, resulting in a step-by-step procrastination busting guide for work,
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Are you always late or Product Description
In this groundbreaking book, the world’s leading expert on procrastination, Dr Piers Steel, reveals the truth about why procrastinate – and shows us what we can do about it.

Using a powerful mix of psychology, science, self-help, and a decade of his own research, Dr Steel shows us what effect procrastination has on our lives, and offers real hope to sufferers everywhere.

New to this revised edition, Dr Steel shows exactly how to apply the techniques in common problem areas, resulting in a step-by-step procrastination busting guide for work, money matters and losing weight.

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Are you always late or behind with something?

Is your desk covered with stuff you just haven’t got round to dealing with?

Are there dozens of untackled jobs around your home?

Then you’re not alone. Across the world, millions of us are engaged in a never-ending battle to get stuff done. It’s a battle that frustrates us, makes us unhappy, costs us financially and takes its toll on our health. What’s more, it’s likely to limit our career potential.

So why do intelligent, able people put things off, even when we know we’ll be worse off for doing so? And, more importantly, how do we change?

In this groundbreaking book, the world’s leading expert on procrastination, Dr Piers Steel, reveals the truth about why we don’t do what we don’t do – and shows us what we can do about it.

Using a powerful mix of psychology, science, self-help, and a decade of his own research, Dr Steel shows us what effect procrastination has on our lives, and offers real hope to sufferers everywhere.

New to this revised edition, Dr Steel shows exactly how to apply the techniques in common problem areas, resulting in a step-by-step procrastination busting guide for work, money matters and losing weight.

“Procrastination is the saffron spice of human behaviour, where even small amounts of this tendency can shatter the best of intentions. In this illuminating book Piers Steel shows us the secrets of procrastination, how it affects us and how we will, one day, be able to prevail.” Dan Ariely, author of New York Times bestseller Predictably Irrational

Author's note

1 Portrait of a procrastinator

2 The Procrastination Equation

The result of eight hundred studies plus one

3 Wired for procrastination

Putting off is human nature

4 Procrastination

How modern life ensures distraction

5 The personal price of procrastination

What we miss, what we lose and what we suffer

6 The economic cost of procrastination

How businesses and nations lose

7 Optimising optimism

Balancing under- and over-confidence

8 Love it or leave it

Finding relevance in work

9 In good time

Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals

10 Making it work

Putting the pieces into practice

Postscript: Procrastinations's Chapter 11

A step-by-step guide to getting things done

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Index
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Autorenporträt
Dr. Piers Steel is an internationally recognised expert on human motivation and the foremost authority on why people put things off. A professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the University of Calgarys Haskayne School of Business, hes spent the last ten years studying procrastination and the decades before that embodying it