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The Waiting Game
Stop Procrastinating, Start Living, and Finally Do the Things That Matter
Marcus Webb(0)
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You already know what you need to do.That is the particular cruelty of procrastination.
Procrastination is not a time management problem. It is an emotion regulation problem - the specific, automatic tendency to avoid tasks that generate anxiety, self-doubt, or discomfort, in favor of anything that provides immediate relief. And no calendar, planner, or to-do list has ever fixed an emotion regulation problem.
The Waiting Game
is the science-based guide to genuine procrastination recovery - built on four decades of psychological research and the evidence-based practices that actually work.
Inside you will discover:
• Why procrastination has nothing to do with laziness or poor discipline
• The specific varieties of procrastination - perfectionism, anxiety, depression - and how to address each
• The neuroscience of the present bias and why the future feels unreal
• Emotion regulation skills: how to tolerate the discomfort that matters
• The five-minute rule and starting strategies that actually work
• Values-based motivation - the only kind that lasts
• Environment design: making the right choice the easy choice
• Self-compassion and breaking the shame spiral
• Building identity-based habits for sustainable change
• ADHD, anxiety, and when professional help is genuinely needed
The thing you have been waiting to start is waiting for you.This is the beginning.
Procrastination is not a time management problem. It is an emotion regulation problem - the specific, automatic tendency to avoid tasks that generate anxiety, self-doubt, or discomfort, in favor of anything that provides immediate relief. And no calendar, planner, or to-do list has ever fixed an emotion regulation problem.
The Waiting Game
is the science-based guide to genuine procrastination recovery - built on four decades of psychological research and the evidence-based practices that actually work.
Inside you will discover:
• Why procrastination has nothing to do with laziness or poor discipline
• The specific varieties of procrastination - perfectionism, anxiety, depression - and how to address each
• The neuroscience of the present bias and why the future feels unreal
• Emotion regulation skills: how to tolerate the discomfort that matters
• The five-minute rule and starting strategies that actually work
• Values-based motivation - the only kind that lasts
• Environment design: making the right choice the easy choice
• Self-compassion and breaking the shame spiral
• Building identity-based habits for sustainable change
• ADHD, anxiety, and when professional help is genuinely needed
The thing you have been waiting to start is waiting for you.This is the beginning.