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First hour Pamela's Place guest and topic for today
Friday, February 21, 2014
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Have You Already Given Up
On Your New Year’s Resolutions?
Psychologist Says Procrastination is an Addiction
& the 1st Step in Resolution Failure
So, you’ve vowed to lose weight, stop smoking or drinking, or quit yelling at your kids in 2014. How’s that working out for you, so far? Have you already succumbed to excuses as to why those were unworkable resolutions, or are you still procrastinating your vows?
Instead of focusing on what you can’t do, focus of what you can do, and you’ll also address the underlying problem that’s holding you back.
Peter Andrew Sacco, Ph.D., a psychology professor and author of “Why Keeping Resolutions are So Ridiculously Difficult! The Handbook to Understanding and Overcoming Procrastination,” a free e-book available at (www.petersacco.com).
“If you want to lose weight this year, focus on the many great, healthy food choices you have, and start eating them,” he says. “If you smoke or you’re drinking too much, take the first step forward by sucking lollipops instead of cigarettes, and making satisfying, healthy beverages instead of grabbing a can of beer.”
Taking positive steps forward in meeting your resolutions helps you overcome procrastination – which is a destructive addiction itself, Sacco says.
“Procrastination becomes habitual and it prevents us from making progress toward our goals,” he says. “Survey after survey finds that people are happiest when they’re moving toward something they want to achieve. Imagine how much happier you’ll be when you start doing what you can instead of finding ways to avoid what you ‘can’t’.”
Peter Andrew Sacco is a former adjunct psychology professor at Niagara University, Lewiston, N.Y., in the teacher education program. Creator and instructor of the Criminal Psychology Program at Niagara College, Canada, he is also an instructor at McMaster University, Canada in the Addiction Studies Program and Police Foundations Study. In addition to 700 articles published in newspapers, magazines and journals, Professor Sacco has to his credit more than 25 books, including “What’s Your Anger Type,” “Penis Envy,” and “Why Women Want What They Can t Have.” Sacco appears regularly on television and radio shows both in the United States and Canada, and is host of the weekly Toronto radio show Mental Health Matters.
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