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I didn't have the papers from all Dissertations so I just used the abstracts

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Popular Self-help books

Bliss, E. (1983). Doing it now. A 12-step program for curing procrastination and achieving your goals. New York: Scribner.

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Knaus, W.J. (1997 - in press). Do it now: How to stop procrastinating (Revised edition). New York: John Wiley& Sons

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