The Little Guide to Un-Procrastination
By Leo Babauta
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Leo Babauta
Leo Babauta has been a reporter, editor, speechwriter, and freelance writer for the last 17 years. Babauta lives in Guam with his wife and five children, where he posts regularly on ZenHabits.net.
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Reviews for The Little Guide to Un-Procrastination
5 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short, to the point, book that can help you to get things done.
I liked the idea of taking a specific time, for me I’ll pick my first hour at work, to focus on something that will bring a big result.
This book is well worth the few minutes to read. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Procrastination is such a common ailment. This book is short and to the point with inspiring and helpful tips.
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The Little Guide to Un-Procrastination - Leo Babauta
2017
About this Book
This is a Little Guide. It's not meant to be long -- just about every chapter is very short. You'll get the basics of everyone's favorite problem -- Procrastination -- and then my time-proven methods for beating that problem.
A few key concepts are pounded home enough times that you won’t be able to miss the message.
Then you'll quickly be done reading, and be on your way to get amazing things done.
The Irony - You'll Read This Later!
Let's start with everyone's favorite procrastination jokes about a procrastination book, just to get them out of the way:
• I know I should buy this book but I'll buy it later!
• I'll read it tomorrow! Hahahaha!
• I keep meaning to get around to beating procrastination, but...
OK, that's out of the way.
Seriously, though, if you're a major procrastinator, you might just want to kick the procrastination habit but instead you keep putting it off. The reason is probably Fear.
If you do nothing else, skip to the chapter on Fear. At least if you procrastinate after that, you'll know why.
This book is written by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits. Read more about me in the chapter about My Procrastination Story, and even more at leobabauta.com.
My Un-Procrastination Story
Hi my friends. I'm Leo Babauta, creator of Zen Habits and mnmlist.com ( minimalism with kids,) and author of the books Focus, and The Power of Less.
I'm a habitual procrastinator. It's something I've struggled with my entire life, just like almost anyone else. It's something we all deal with, to greater or lesser degrees. I'm no exception.
In school I procrastinated so much I never did homework and despite great test grades (I always crammed the night before), I got mediocre grades. I did well in the newspaper industry and in politics, but I always did things at the last minute and barely pulled them off.
I had a million things I wanted to achieve in life, and yet I never got around to starting them.
Sound familiar? If you're a chronic procrastinator too, this book is for you.
In 2006 I found some solutions after repeated (failed) attempts to conquer the problem. In 2007 I discovered my passion and my productivity took off. I finally beat procrastination!
Truth be told, I still procrastinate sometimes. I get stuck on the Internet like anyone else. But I still get the important things done, and that's what matters.
Using the simple methods in this book, here's just a sample of what I've done:
• Created Zen Habits, one of the Top 25 blogs according to TIME magazine, and have run it successfully since 2007.
• Wrote and published several books in the last three years: The Effortless Life, The Power of Less, Focus, Zen To Done, The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life, and more.
• Wrote (but decided not to publish) two novels during two separate NaNoWriMo bouts, including one where I wrote over 110,000 words in a month.
• Created two other successful blogs: Write To Done and mnmlist, each with well over 10,000 subscribers.
• Ran several marathons and a couple triathlons.
• Co-created a successful business (with a fantastic partner, Mary Jaksch): A-List Blogging Bootcamps.
• I wrote this book in three days.
I did all of this, of course, with six kids and a wife. If I can do this with six kids, you have no excuses.
How I did all