How To Get Organized When You Don't Have The Time by Stephanie Culp

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By Keith Alan Morgan on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 2:42 am:

The first chapter & most of the second chapter list bad things about disorganization.
Hello? I know this, that's why I bought the book. Okay, maybe some people were given the book, but one chapter of the evils of disorganization would have been sufficient.

Chapter 6, about Procrastination, is just plain insulting.

First she has this thing... I guess she thinks she's being funny, where she says, "you are going to do it, you really are, you say". Then she puts each of the following phrases in a different typeface. "Soon", "Later", "Next Week", "When I can fit it in". etc., etc. Just plain annoying.

Then she relates the allegedly true story of RJ & how his procrastination caused problems, except that a number of his problems had nothing to do with procrastination.

Part of the problem is that RJ's story partly duplicates an example given in Chapter 2 about a woman for whom procrastination did cause problems.

At one point in RJ's story it mentions that they got a Court Summons, but it seemed to be on a Sunday, so they decided to ignore it. Ignore it? That's not procrastination, that's stupidity!

Then, in an example of what Ms. Culp calls Procrastinator's Poppycock, RJ give this rambling justification, that has nothing to do with procrastination, to a judge about missing an earlier Court Summons. Frankly the justification reminded me of an idiot I know, but did not remind me of any procrastinator I know. RJ may procrastinate & his thought processes may be disorganized, but his troubles were caused by more than just procrastination.

For her example on Procrastination Ms. Culp should have used the story she had in Chapter 2, as it was a much better example of True Procrastination.

Other than that it's not that bad a book. (Although I had figured out some of what she suggested previously.)


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