Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It
By, Burka, Jane B.; Yuen, Lenora M.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Class No.: 158.1 BUR
Accession No.: 011257
Year: 2004
Pages: 227 p.

Of the week: 8th May. to 13th May., 2006

Based on years of counseling, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and sometimes humorous look at the problem that troubles everyone. Revealing the reasons we put off tasks-fears of failure, success, control, separation, and attachment-the authors outline a practical, tested program to overcome procrastination. Candid and understanding, Procrastination is a must-have today for anyone who puts everything off until tomorrow.

This book reveals the following assets: straightforward language absent of jargon, cinema-verité vignettes from lives of workshop participants, logical organization including summary points and typical dialogues, small-chunk behavioral suggestions for change, social-reinforcement (support) techniques, practical checklists of situations, motivations, excuses, and (unhelpful) styles among other tactics. A simple index would have been a boon. As must be so with any self-help book, the typified conditioning factors producing and suggested techniques for transcending procrastination ("P" hereafter), reflecting the two major parts of the book, constitute an extensive buffet from which the reader may select the elements that apply.