The human brain knows no limits when it comes to thinking out waysand strategies in dealing with all kinds of problems, but if thesestrategies and plans are NOT acted upon, they really hold no meaning– they're like empty blueprints camouflaged in sparkling rhetoric. Andrhetoric comes cheap these days.We've made up our minds to be less ambitious about this work, andcalled the 101 recommendations and suggestions contained in thisbook as simply TIPS. Tips on how NOT to procrastinate.Procrastination pervades every aspect of our lives. And we'vemastered it to perfection having learned a subtle form of it when wewere babies.We delayed falling asleep because our mothers wouldn't cradle us inher arms. We've procrastinated in performing our duties at home, inschool, in the work place, and in our most fragile human relationships.We shudder to think what the final tally of lost hours will be becausewe procrastinated habitually.