I heard about Dr. Ferrari on the excellent podcast Ologies, which I think everybody should explore https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ologies and he made such an interesting point about procrastinators (not just people who procrastinate, but more of a lifetime thing) were about 20% of the population, males and females, worldwide, and that that was higher than the rate of depression. So, he argued, we should stop sniggering about it and take it seriously, grasp the seriousness of the effects of chronic procrastination on the world.

Well, I was procrastinating about editing my second novel, so I pounced on this book.

I am sorry I did. As a procrastination tool, it is filled with such pithy nostrums as “make the first hour of your day about you- use this time to straighten one of your shoe shelves, clean up one section of your closet...”

Argh. Why in the name of all that’s good and holy (as my mother would say) would you spend that first, most potent hour of your day organizing SHOES????

Okay, Ferrari’s research is interesting. This book adds nothing to the self-help genre and in fact dashes scorn at most of the time organizer books out there. A waste of an hour or two.

See, this is what I get for procrastinating.
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Another self- help blah, blah, blah. Had a couple good points but just rehashed info. ( )

Two years later I'm sitting at my breakfast table at 11:30am filling in old reviews on LibraryThing. This book has interesting ideas, but it's not the self-help work I was hoping for. It's more along the lines of explaining your predicament. ( )