Self-Discipline — Self-discipline, according to Hollins, is the key to staying committed and engaged in your work, even when you may not feel motivated to do so. Certain mindsets are all it takes to find the will and motivation necessary to follow through on something. It discusses why we are sometimes stuck and gives detailed, step-by-step solutions you can start using today. As a result, we may abstain from taking necessary steps, leading to a lack of progress or the avoidance of potential opportunities. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

The content was a concise explanation of of most of the effective success mechanisms found in books in this genre.Productive procrastination occurs when individuals engage in activities that seem productive and necessary for a task or project, but in reality, they are avoiding the primary task at hand. The summaries at the end of every chapter make it very easy to review what you've learned through out the book and make it even easier to review these practices and ideas in a future time without re-reading the whole thing. Very helpful, a complete landscape of reasons and pitfalls and techniques and systems to navigate them and follow tasks through to completion.

This rule may not seem all that powerful, but it’s effective because it forces you to think about your future self and to see how your actions are going to affect yourself in the future—for better or worse.

Meh, more of a primer course for people with poorly developed organisational skills or understanding of what it takes to be productive. By not acting and not following through, we have already judged and rejected ourselves even before we’ve started. Procrastination comes from boredom, complacency, and safety, so stripping those feelings away can leave you paranoid and eager to avoid bad consequences. This lack of drive is caused by a massive disconnect between three important aspects: (1) what the things we care about represent, (2) the positive benefits we receive from our actions, and (3) the negative consequences we can avoid related to our causes. Those are two of mine that I used, It also strengthens the desire to follow through by setting a punishment if you do not follow through.