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Michelle has led seminars on procrastination, prioritizing time, and career management for Fortune 500 companies and major organizations including Ernst & Young, Viacom, Pitney-Bowes, The New York Public Library, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
She is the author of five career and job hunting guidebooks: the Unofficial Guide to Acing the Interview; Networking for Everyone; Work Smart: 250 Smart Moves Your Boss Already Knows; Cover Letters; and Job Smart: What You Need to Know to Get the Job You Want. Her advice has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Newsday, Chicago Tribune, National Business Employment Weekly, Fortune, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Mademoiselle, as well as on national radio and television. And, she has written about careers for the New York Times. She also edits career guides and other advice books for AdviceZone.com.
Michelle lives with her husband and toddler daughter in New York City, where her hobbies are filing (yes, filing), collecting camels (not real ones, though she wishes), making travel plans, sleeping, and watching Mary Tyler Moore reruns. She holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from UCLA and is a graduate of Wellesley College.
专业书评 From the Back Cover
You're no idiot, of course. You know your life would be easier to handle and a lot more pleasant if you just stopped putting off 'til next month what you should have done last week. But when it comes to actually facing procrastination head-on and doing something about it... well, there's always tomorrow. Don't crash on the couch and flip on the TV again! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination is a fun, easy-to-follow guide to reorganizing your life to get things done before they become a problem! In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
文摘 Foreword by Mary LoVerde, Life Balance expert, professional speaker, and author of Stop Screaming at the Microwave! How to Connect Your Disconnected Life (Simon and Schuster)
If you've color-coded all your files, answered all your e-mails, and gotten your holiday purchases wrapped by September 1, you can quit reading now. If, however, your mother called recently to see if you were still alive, the neighbors think your house is the recycling center, or the length of your to-do list qualifies for the Guiness World Book of Records, you've picked up the right book.
Just about everyone procrastinates. And for good reasons. Some of the things we never get around to doing are boring, difficult, overwhelming, and complicated. Any reasonable person would find "later" the best time frame to do them in. The sheer weight of the demands placed upon us can be paralyzing. If you think you have too much to do and not enough time to do it in, this is not your imagination. There really is too much to do. Some of us cope by putting off until tomorrow...what we won't have time to do then, either. Unfortunately procrastination is a problem that not only doesn't solve problems, it creates them.
You are about to read the most comprehensive procrastination book on the market. It is full of nuts and bolts tips on how to stop procrastinating and take out that two-week-old trash, overcome your computer phobia, or make the career move that will change your life. Because people procrastinate for different reasons, this book provides a dual focus: It helps those of us who need to pay attention to the psychological roots of stalling, e.g., fears, perfectionism, and ambivalence, and it guides those of us whose main trouble stems from situational factors, e.g., overload, distractions, and disorganization. You will find nitty-gritty, specific, sure-fire ways to stop putting things off. The book's author clearly has her act together, and lucky for us, has devoted her career to help
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