The Now Habit

By: Neil Fiore Ph.D.

Narrated by: Neil Fiore Ph.D.

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

Here's the first comprehensive strategic system for overcoming the causes and eliminating the effects of procrastination.

Here are techniques to help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by delay and pressing deadlines.

If you are a professional, manager, student, entrepreneur, writer, or homemaker, this audiobook will help you achieve your goals more rapidly, whether they are large, complex challenges or the small, essential tasks of everyday life and work. If you now work effectively, even though you have too much to do and too little time, The Now Habit will show you how to prioritize your goals to allow more time for guilt-free play.

Step by step, Neil Fiore, Ph.D. reveals numerous tested strategies for ridding your life of procrastination:

• Use the symptoms of procrastination to trigger the cure
• Overcome the perfectionism and fear of failure that lie behind procrastination
• Benefit from making positive statements about work instead of sabotaging yourself with negative statements
• Make your worry work for you
• Use the "Unschedule" time-management techniques
• Accomplish more in less time through efficient "flow state" work styles
• Assist the procrastinators in your life in overcoming their problems

The Now Habit promises you the chance to truly enjoy guilt-free recreational time, knowing the work is really behind you.

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©2006 Neil Fiore, Ph.D. (P)2007 Gildan Media

Great concepts

I agree with others that his narration is imperfect, but it is sincere and easily managed by faster listening speed. Useful ideas that I’ve already started to implement.

Very recommended

Very useful and strong tips. Definitely helped me guide my life in a better direction.

Very useful and worth my listen.

For easy to apply tips, this book has it. I've used what I learned in this book and it has been very successful.

While it was not the best narration it was still easy to listen (I just had to speed it up a little :)

Definitely worth my time for what it's saved me going forward.

A nice one!

I have learnt quite a lot from this self help book such as fochsing on small steps towards the goal, not associating my value with the quality of work I do, block distractions, and not work nore than 5 hours a day and to dedicate time for recreational activities.

Life-Changing

This book is a marvelous treatment of the seemingly intractable habit of procrastination. Fiore does more than simply address the symptoms. Instead, he explores some of the more common reasons why people procrastinate, and manages to do so without boring the listener with too much psycho-babble or victimhood mentality.

Unlearning Procrastination: Finally

Learn from this illuminating but readily understood analysis of procrastination as a complex defense that is usually misunderstood as a weakness, incompetence, academic ineptitude, etc. Fiore illucidates the manner in which proscrastination is used defensively against other unpleasant feelings and thoughts. And why sheer will power will not over come patterns of procrastination. The author goes a step further and offers ways to "unlearn" procrastination and deal effectively with the problems that gave rise to it.

I've Listened 77 Times

What made the experience of listening to The Now Habit the most enjoyable?

I keep listening to it over and over. Because 1) it's a bit boring at times and I'm such an airhead, I keep spacing out so I have to read it over and over to absorb it all, and 2) because it has helped me more than any self-help book to-date.The strategies of just tackling 30 minutes at a time, and repeatedly deciding when is the next time I can START on this project have taken some of the pressure off. Determining what KIND of procrastinator I am (one who becomes easily overwhelmed) has helped me rise above my unspoken, unacknowledged feeling of "if I can't do it all - perfectly - I might as well not even try" mindset.Other small tips, like never ending at the end of a chapter (which goes against my entire being) and not ending at a frustrating part have really made my life better. I highly recommend this book, even if the author does take it a bit too slow at times (like maybe he's multi-tasking in the background in order to complete more work in the same amount of time and forgets that he's reading to us! Ha!)

What did you like best about this story?

Great tips, useful strategies

Great Topic, Awkward Narration

I really enjoy this book, I'm not done with it yet but so far it is helping me to look at my own motivations for procrastinating. Unfortunately, the author's narration is awkward. I feel that whomever was ever in charge of editing the reading should've done a better job too. There are clear "hiccups" of stuttering the beginning of a word or audible sighs. My biggest problem with the narration though is the random awkward pauses. I listen at 1.25 speed and it is still very noticeable. Not a longer than normal pause at the end of a sentence, these are strange pauses mid-sentence, interrupting the flow. I feel guilty being so critical of the author, I'm sure he did his best but a professional narrator should've been hired for this.

Very helpful for a REAL procrastinator.

This is an excellent system for addressing issues of procrastination, whether they come from fear of failure, resistance to authority, or any other source. My two criticisms are first, that the author does not acknowledge really serious procrastinators, speaking almost entirely about people who come close to missing deadlines, or who have to work under impossible time pressure, rather than people who actually blow deadlines, and procrastinate their way into truly serious trouble. This initially made me feel like the book might not be right for me (since I can do that at times), but after I put that feeling aside, I was able to find the exercises helpful. Second, the book is replete with success stories of people who are made to sound as if they found quick fixes to their challenges using the method, but is devoid of illustrations of people who really struggle to improve. I do think this is a mistake. If you're buying this book, chances are that that describes you more than someone who simply sometimes puts things off. Nonetheless, I was able to find many of the tools presented in the book quite useful. The author spoke clearly about his ideas, and communicated his method very effectively. I recommend it highly.

The psychology behind procrastination

Going deeper than just basic tools for beating procrastination, this book is a life changer. Read it.