{"product_id":"the-starting-problem-how-to-stop-procrastinating-when-you-already-know-what-to-do-a-practical-guide-for-adults-who-cannot-begin-9798195291495","title":"The Starting Problem: How to Stop Procrastinating When You Already Know What to Do - A Practical Guide for Adults Who Cannot Begin","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adam Reyes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Self-Management - Time Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou know what you should be doing. You cannot start.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe report is due Friday. You have known about it for weeks. You sat down to write it three times today and found yourself doing other things instead. The email. The tidying. The research. The tea. By six o'clock you have been busy, and the report is exactly where it was this morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf this is familiar, the problem is not what you have been told it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou do not have a discipline problem. You do not have a willpower problem. You do not have a time management problem. You have an emotional regulation problem, and the standard productivity advice has been failing you because it was calibrated for a different reader, a different problem, and a different mechanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Starting Problem\u003c\/i\u003e is for the adult who knows what to do and cannot begin. It is for the perfectionist who cannot start until conditions are right, the ambiguity-stuck reader who cannot find a place to grip, the overwhelmed reader whose mind shuts down at the size of the task, the dread-driven reader who knows exactly what they are avoiding, and the reader for whom procrastination has become the quiet shame of an otherwise functional life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and the actual research on procrastination as an emotional regulation phenomenon, this book gives you a four-piece system that addresses the mechanism rather than the symptom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy \"just do it\" has failed you, and what the actual mechanism of adult procrastination is\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe five patterns of chronic adult procrastination, and how to identify which is yours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Five-Minute Door - the foundational technique that bypasses the emotional response by reducing the task to a contractually small first move\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Smallest Real Step - for tasks too undefined for the mind to grip\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Emotional Regulation Toolkit - the cognitive shifts that change your relationship to discomfort\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Friction Audit - the structural intervention that does more than willpower ever can\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Stuck Protocol - what to do when the techniques have failed and you have a deadline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 11pm Toolkit - short paragraphs for the late-night reader with the work undone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecific moves for procrastination at work, on admin, on health tasks, on creative work, on relationships, and on life decisions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe honest section on when procrastination is part of something larger (ADHD, depression, anxiety) and what to do about it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo frogs to eat. No five-step morning routines. No promises that you will become a productivity machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you will get is a substantial reduction in stuck moments, a substantial increase in the things you actually finish, and the development of skills that compound over years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe starting problem is solvable. Not by trying harder. By understanding what is actually happening, and applying the right tools to it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the author of\u003c\/i\u003e The 15-Minute ADHD Reset, The Tired Mind, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e The Quiet Alarm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882874552471,"sku":"9798195291495","price":1166.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195291495.webp?v=1781097676","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-starting-problem-how-to-stop-procrastinating-when-you-already-know-what-to-do-a-practical-guide-for-adults-who-cannot-begin-9798195291495","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}