The End of Procrastination: How to Stop Postponing and Live a Fulfilled Life

by Petr Ludwig and Adela Schicker

Everyone procrastinates. We live in a world surrounded by constant distractions (Facebook or Twitter, anyone?) and endless choices, which both lead to lack of focus and decision paralysis. As a result, we end up procrastinating which in turn can lead to mistakes at work and home, and actually make it impossible to achieve long-term happiness.While there are tips and tricks online on how to improve one's efficiency, no one has created a complete how-to that is backed by science and also easy-to-understand. At the core of this book are simple and practical tools for personal development, which will help you with your motivation, efficiency, productivity and long-term satisfaction.

You will learn:
- what decision paralysis is and why it has such a negative effect on us
- how human motivation works and how properly to set it in order to work in the long-term
- how to find a personal vision, define your strengths and use them to do meaningful things
- how your brain works from the perspective of self-control. How to strengthen your willpower
- how to increase efficiency.
- how to learn new positive habits and unlearn the bad ones
- how to organise tasks and time so that you can do more without getting tired
- how to manage your own failures better
- how to overcome the fear of change

• ISBN10: 1250308054
• ISBN13: 9781250308054
• Publish Date: 31 December 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: St. Martin's Essentials
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[Joséphine]

Actual rating: 3.5 stars

Initial thoughts: My favourite part of this book is the method of habit tracking that the author suggests adopting. I've been intrigued by such trackers during my research of bullet journalling. His system view all habits individually and in tandem, in order to see the overall progress. He notes that the important thing is to track daily, and not to be too hard on yourself if you don't keep up the habit on one day. What matters is the long term development and the conscious will to develop specific habits.

I've read other books on productivity and time management that I fond more insightful than The End of Procrastination. What this book did have going for it was the concrete step-by-step actions to take in order to overcome procrastination. It only briefly touched on why we get stuck (decision paralysis when presented with too many options). I'm someone who prefers to explore the deeper reasons and logic. On the flip sight, this punchy approach could also be seen as the strength of this book. There's no beating around the bush to get you started on overcoming procrastination.

That being said, I took a peek at the ebook. I think in this case, the ebook or print edition will have a stronger impact on readers due to illustrations. The images peppered throughout the book serve to reinforce the text. In this regard, the audiobook version does fall a little short of the the visual media.