End Procrastination Now! Quotes

“The cognitive approach is grounded in thinking about your thinking and acting to change automatic negative thoughts (ANT) that lead to unpleasant emotions and self-defeating behaviors.”
― William J. Knaus, End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach

“View your self-development efforts as experiments and your plans as hypotheses. That changes the view. Now you are operating like a scientist. You test the plan and judge the result, not yourself. If you don’t like the result, you adjust and retest the plan.”
― William J. Knaus, End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach

“many manufactured miseries. Who’s perfect? Failure can be instructive when you use its consequences for self-correction. Sometimes the instruction is painful. Sometimes the consequences lead to new insights and discoveries.”
― William J. Knaus, End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach

“Failure is like a passing breeze among everything else that is part of nature. It is a normal part of living and learning. You don’t make a sale every time you try. You may take a bar examination more than once. You have no luck as a professional Bigfoot investigator. During a recessionary period, your stock portfolio gets hit. Some failures have consequences. The person who wishes to get drunk without ill effects is living in a dream world. In the world of commerce, failing to produce is likely to result in someone else getting your job. Most failures are fictional, such as thinking that if you are not 100 percent perfect in whatever you undertake, you are a failure. That show-stopping idea can lead to”
― William J. Knaus, End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach

“Educate yourself about how procrastination works and change procrastination thinking (the cognitive way). Build tolerance and stamina to tough your way through uncomfortable circumstances (the emotive way). Decide on your direction, behaviorally follow through, and apply what you know to prosper through your work and accomplishments (the behavioral way).”
― William J. Knaus, End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach

“In “The Road Not Taken,” the American poet Robert Frost showed”
― William Knaus, End Procrastination Now!: Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach