Productivity is Power: Five Liberating Practices for College Students
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Feel like your grades don’t reflect your potential?
These days, there’s more pressure on college students than perhaps ever before. A bad economy makes it even more important to get great grades, get great internships or work-study experiences, and to graduate with a great plan. The competition at every stage is intense, and so is the stress. Meanwhile, social media isn’t helping. Not only is it massively distracting, it’s full of competitive, critical, negative, and otherwise destructive messages.
At the same time, you’re probably dealing with all the “normal” productivity challenges that most people face, including procrastination, perfectionism, and time crunch.
Traditional productivity books for general audiences can help some, but what’s really needed is a book that addresses college students’ unique needs and productivity challenges. Productivity is Power is that book. It will help you:
Locate, understand, and overcome your barriers to productivity and success so that you can become immediately more productive, successful, and happy.Start your work on time, work steadily on it, and hand it on time. (Or early!)Work through problems and obstacles. (No procrastination or derailments!)Handle mistakes, failures, and other setbacks.Manage your time well, so that you can succeed academically while also living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. And,Work more effectively with your professors, teaching assistants, and other academic personnel.
And much more! Productivity is Power also offers many unique, and uniquely effective, solutions, including:
Re-Empowerment. How to locate and remedy the specific forms of disempowerment that keep you from doing your work.Compassionate Objectivity. The mindset that neutralizes perfectionism while maintaining accountability and a success orientation.Timed Work Intervals, Randomization, “Dialoguing with the Critic,” and other solutions to perfectionism.The Joyful Dance, a highly effective work method founded on principles of personal empowerment and compassionate objectivity.Values-Based Time Management, which helps you achieve not just maximum empowerment and productivity in the short term, but maximum success and happiness over the course of your career.Many solutions for common writing and work problems including not finishing, not submitting, over-researching, constantly starting over, and avoidance (of difficult parts of the project). Also, for efficient decision-making both within and around projects.Solutions for coping with criticism, rejection, and perceived failures. And,Solutions for “digital distraction,” online harassment, and other 21st Century obstacles to work and success.
…all of which will help today’s undergraduate not just succeed, but thrive.
Don’t procrastinate on achieving your full potential! Get Productivity is Power now for yourself, or for the student, teacher, counselor, advisor, coach, or parent in your life.
ASIN : B0DCT8SPXW
Publisher : Infinite Art; 2nd edition (August 10, 2024)
Publication date : August 10, 2024
Language : English
File size : 1563 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 330 pages
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Aschultz –
Very Informative
This book had really great tips to help students and professors excel in the college environment. As a college professor, I am always looking for ways that my students (and myself) can improve to work smarter not harder. Throughout the book she provides exercises to do in relation to many of her topics – I think this is a great tool to use in the classroom. There were so many tips to include but there were a handful that I immediately found interesting or useful. Her Idea behind procrastination was really interesting. She states that procrastinators are not lazy but the correct attitudes and habits for being productive havenât been learned. Procrastination today is one of the biggest issues I see in my students. Her ideas on unproductive vs quasiproductive were also interesting because quasiproductive is something I tend to do. This idea that you are feeling productive but in reality it is an illusion really struck a cord with me. I do this mentality often, and in the end it is because I donât want to be seen as unproductive, but what needs to get done I donât want to do. One thing that I tell my students often is in her section on âWorking on the Right Stuffâ. She says âremember that the goal isnât to study, itâs to learnâ. Students forget this often because many just want to move on and have the mentality to just get through. The last thing I will mention is her chapters on learning the art of failure and success. I think many people see failure as something negative, but in reality it is a necessity to be able to grow and more forward. I found this book to be very beneficial – and you donât have to be in college or work at one to find value in it.
MSM –
A useful book for a vast category of readers
Over the decades I have read several self-improvement-help books; here I name a few: Iâm OKâYouâre OK, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich, One Minute Manager series, Og Mandinoâ s The Greatest Miracle in the World etc.However, âProductivity is Powerâ is different. Though aimed at college students from freshmen to graduates and postgraduates, parents of undergraduates, higher education faculty and student support centers, I believe this publication may be highly useful to writers, speakers, career coaches, self-employed, production and quality controllers and several other categories of professionals. This volume has several deeply researched and well written chapters on topics like procrastination, disempowerment, perfectionism, secrets to quantity vs. quality and provide food for thought for anyone with a quest for excellence.This book could be of great help for those who wish to be fully productive in their lives and enjoy what they do by knowing more on all aspects of dis-empowerment and negative aspects of perfectionism procrastination and how to keep those traits in check.
Jennifer –
Toolkit for College/University Success
Working in a university, you can experience a lot of how students can succeed and struggle adjusting to their own realms of leading their own education. Some are quite equipped to handle the academic pressures and ambitions set before them while others need more support and motivation. This book is an excellent way of securing the tools for productivity skills for their academic, professional and personal success. College students can be overwhelmed with their first moments of decision making and learning to balance social activities with academic obligations. Rettig provides a foundation of figuring out reasons for lack of productivity and setting up a plan for better focus on succeeding for a studentâs working capabilities. One of the toughest challenges in this process is recognizing failures and mistakes and how to go about processing them to improve for future success. The author also provides methods of reaching out for future assistance and how to work with academic personnel to best suit their own personal success. Many colleges and universities have freshmen introduction to college type classes to get these students prepared on how to best thrive in their major and overall college experience and books like these should be in the forefront of introducing students to a toolkit of success. Also highly recommended as graduation gifts and care packages for these students!
Jennifer Crain –
Great book!
As a graduate student navigating the demanding landscape of academia, I approached Hillary Rettig’s *Productivity is Power* with a blend of skepticism and hope. In an age where academic pressure can feel overwhelming and the competition is relentless, I found that Rettig’s book offers a refreshing perspective on productivity tailored specifically for college students.Rettig identifies the myriad challenges that students face todayânot just the usual suspects like procrastination and perfectionism but also the pervasive distractions of social media and the weight of societal expectations. What sets this book apart is its recognition of the unique pressures faced by students in an unforgiving economy, where grades and internships are paramount for future success.The book is structured around five liberating practices that aim to empower students to overcome their barriers and enhance their productivity. Rettigâs approach is both empathetic and practical, focusing on actionable strategies that can lead to immediate improvements in a student’s academic life.Throughout the book, Rettig delves into common issues such as indecision, perpetual research, and the fear of submitting work. Her solutions are practical and tailored for those who often feel overwhelmed. What particularly struck me was her emphasis on coping with criticism and setbacksâa crucial skill in todayâs hyper-competitive environment.As a graduate student, I found several insights that I wish I had discovered earlier in my academic journey. I would recommend this book not only to undergraduates but also to graduate students, educators, advisors, and anyone involved in student support. With the right tools, every student can access their potential and find joy in their academic pursuits.