Procrastination Equation, The: How To Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done, 2nd edition

Author's note

1  Portrait of a procrastinator

2  The Procrastination Equation

    The result of eight hundred studies plus one

3  Wired for procrastination

    Putting off is human nature

4  Procrastination

    How modern life ensures distraction

5  The personal price of procrastination

    What we miss, what we lose and what we suffer

6  The economic cost of procrastination

    How businesses and nations lose

7  Optimising optimism

    Balancing under- and over-confidence

8  Love it or leave it

    Finding relevance in work

9  In good time

    Managing short-term impulses and long-term goals

10  Making it work

    Putting the pieces into practice

Postscript: Procrastinations's Chapter 11

A step-by-step guide to getting things done

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Index