CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 What Is Procrastination? Why Does It Matter?

2 Is Procrastination Really a Problem? What Are the Costs of Procrastinating?

3 What’s the Most Important Thing We Need to Know about Procrastination?

4 Why We Won’t Feel Like It Tomorrow

5 Excuses and Self-deception: How Our Thinking Contributes to Our Procrastination

6 The Power of Getting Started

7 Why Getting Started Isn’t the Whole Solution

8 Willpower, Willpower: If We Only Had the Willpower

9 What’s Bred in the Bone: Personality and Procrastination

10 Cyberslacking on the Procrastination Superhighway

Concluding Thoughts: On the Road of Self-Change