The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play

The Now Habit has revolutionized my way of approaching work, play, and life! Very helpful, practical and change-inspiring! For anyone who's struggled with procrastination, this is a powerful look at the reasons behind it, and specific tools to help overcome it for good!

I've read it back to back 3 times in a matter of 2 weeks and I'm not much of a reader..

Feeling Good used to be my favorite book but now it comes second to this one. In the entire book, there isn't a single inclination of judgement or what to do. It's like having your best friend advising you on life and wisdom.

I've also picked up Conquering Procrastination CD's by the same author. Then I got Productivity Engineering and listen to them regularly.

Don't expect to read through the book once and it does it for you. Change is not easy but certainly doable and he makes it easy and gentle. A down to earth tone yet full of wisdom and sincerety.

All I can say is Thank God for people like Dr. Fiore..

This book was pretty good. It does talk about some of the things that i heard before in other self-help book but for the most part, the exercises are good. My take away in the book is not feeling guilty for my so called not getting anything done and just being able to say NO, without any guilt. That was really refreshing and I am now doing that and taking a stance. I personally had some other things going on with me that was allowing me to procrastinate and now that i have tackle those issues, i am now focus once again. So, i cant really say the book helped but it is a good reference tool to use. good luck

I found this book very helpful -- easy to read, smart and dead on in it's observations of why people procrastinate and which approaches tend to work (and which don't). From the start, the author makes clear that, for most people, beating yourself up isn't the way to beat procrastination. That alone is worth the read and the book delivers quite a bit more. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was that I found some of the Fiore's client examples kind of preachy, but that's just personal taste.

Be aware that while the The Now Habit offers a good practical approach to fight procrastination, its aim isn't to give very detailed and in-the-weeds tips for getting organized. If you're looking for that kind of detail, I agree with several other reviewers that David Allen's "Getting Things Done" nicely complements Fiore's book.

Finally, can't help mentioning Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." If you're procrastinating, maybe this 300+ pager isn't ideal (and it's also a bit preachy), but it makes at least one key point a bit more directly than Fiore. The advice is not to be so focused on getting things done that you forget to ask "what do I want to do" and "what matters to me." Covey's good reminder is that doing things MORE EFFICIENTLY is no substitute for making good choices in life. Each of these books has its strengths but I think Fiore's is the best place to start. Just hope this doesn't sound like an Amazon pitch ("better together") to buy more books...!

Decent book but I wonder about the author, Neil Fiore, Ph.D. He is uploading images to Amazon of other books he has written. For example, he has one image uploaded from the "The Now Habit" and another image form another book he wrote - "Awakening your Strongest Self" and vice versa. He has also uploaded an image of one of his books to a book he did not write - "The Making of a Therapist: A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey" by Louis Cozolino. This seems like a very shady way to promote books and what does it say about this author? If I like a book by a certain author, I just click on the name and see what other books he or she has written. I was going to purchase more books by Niel Foire but decided not to after I noticed that he was doing this.