The Waiting Game: Stop Procrastinating, Start Living, and Finally Do the Things That Matter

Dr Marcus Webb

ISBN 13: 9798240950407

Published by Dr. Marcus Webb, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Waiting Game: Stop Procrastinating, Start Living, and Finally Do the Things That Matter
• Publisher: Dr. Marcus Webb
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798240950407
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

You already know what you need to do.That is the particular cruelty of procrastination.

Procrastination is not a time management problem. It is an emotion regulation problem - the specific, automatic tendency to avoid tasks that generate anxiety, self-doubt, or discomfort, in favor of anything that provides immediate relief. And no calendar, planner, or to-do list has ever fixed an emotion regulation problem.

The Waiting Game

is the science-based guide to genuine procrastination recovery - built on four decades of psychological research and the evidence-based practices that actually work.

Inside you will discover:

- Why procrastination has nothing to do with laziness or poor discipline

- The specific varieties of procrastination - perfectionism, anxiety, depression - and how to address each

- The neuroscience of the present bias and why the future feels unreal

- Emotion regulation skills: how to tolerate the discomfort that matters

- The five-minute rule and starting strategies that actually work

- Values-based motivation - the only kind that lasts

- Environment design: making the right choice the easy choice

- Self-compassion and breaking the shame spiral

- Building identity-based habits for sustainable change

- ADHD, anxiety, and when professional help is genuinely needed

The thing you have been waiting to start is waiting for you.This is the beginning.