The Waiting Game : Stop Procrastinating, Start Living, and Finally Do the Things That Matter
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798240950407
- ISBN-10: 9798240950407
- Publisher: Dr. Marcus Webb
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.28 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 132
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