Do It Now: Overcoming Procrastination

By: Fuschia Sirois, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Fuschia Sirois

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Procrastination is an almost universal human experience. While many people attribute procrastination to laziness or a lack of drive, our real motivations to push back and delay important activities and decisions are more complicated than personal weakness. The truth is that humans are well-adapted for basic survival, but they are not so great at managing the stresses and expectations of modern life without a little help.

If our own minds so often work against us, how can we get things done without the stress and last-minute panic so common in our hectic 21st-century lives? You’ll learn how in Do It Now: Overcoming Procrastination, taught by Fuschia Sirois, PhD. In 10 lectures, Dr. Sirois will help you better understand the way your mind works and how to overcome the bad habits that are holding you back. Using the latest scientific research on procrastination, Dr. Sirois will give you the insight and guidance you need to set and meet goals, manage your time better, design an environment that will help you succeed, and much more.

Best of all, Dr. Sirois makes it clear that procrastination is a natural impulse for most people - sometimes, it can even be beneficial. She encourages you not only to work toward better time management but also to get rid of the burden of guilt and internal pressure that so often accompanies this very common behavior. While the tendency to delay the things we need to do is a deep-rooted habit, you will be able to apply and re-apply the strategies and tools you will acquire in this course for the rest of your life.

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Very Helpful and Informative

I can definitely be guilty for procrastination and this listen was great at breaking down the different types and reasons why it happens. There were multiple times I found myself nodding my head thinking this is something I do and even better were the action plans of overcoming these obstacles. I will definitely come back to reference this book and listen to again. Enjoy!

Very helpful!

I am a habitual procrastinator. This program provided me with good reasons for procrastination and helpful ideas on reducing or eliminating the problem.

Very eye opening and revelatory!!

I appreciate the detailed research but yet the elementary explanation and breakdown of everything. Things were put Toni simple terms and sources were cited!!

Helpful and straightforward

This was like listening to a book without all the stories. I like stories, too, but it was impactful to hear the research without fluff in this lecture series.

Meh…

Author did a great job on explaining on how procrastination works and provides reader with many statistical and research facts… that about is … As a self help book this is not the one I would recommend , if you are looking for clear strategies on how to overcome procrastination and do not care about statistical facts then “Eat that Frog” by Brian Tracy will make the difference in your life …

Knowledgeable

Just do it; your future self will be thankful. Even more on procrastination, what are possible causes and methods of overcoming procrastination with knowledge of science in the lectures Do it Now: Overcoming Procrastination by Fuschia Sirois, The Great Courses Audible original—narrated by Fuschia Siroids. Lectures are structured and easily understandable to a reader.
Conclusion there is no ideal circumstances.

Not very useful.

The reading of the book was good. The book was explanatory, but lacked actionable direction.

Buries the lede . . . but backs it up with science

As other reviewers have alluded to, this book feels a bit padded-out without considering the desires of its core audience. It probably started as a course on the *study* of procrastination that was then shoehorned to sell it as self-help. You could basically skip the first two "classes" here without missing anything important. There *are* practical tips in this book, (copiously) supported by scientific studies . . . but nothing that unique. As with any of the books on this subject, you're still going to have to do the work (except this one is less focused than others about assigning you homework to do to work on changing).

Best reference on the subject

All one could ever need to best understand the basis for one of the most practiced behaviour that has held back many: Procrastination.

Very insightful, even if hard to get through

Overall, I would definitely recommend this audiobook. The lectures were about 20 minutes, which was a good timeframe for myself, as I was listening to this while driving to and from work. The narrator who is also the writer started to grow on me as the lectures went on, but in the beginning it was a little hard to get through. Again, I would recommend this audiobook even with that said.