The purpose of this book is to testify how the combination of grit plus
tenacity plus being proactive has allowed the author of this book to be
successful in fighting against procrastination in the battlegrounds of
primary school, learning English in Cuba in two years, going through
secondary education, high school, bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees,
in Cuban, Scottish, Ukrainian universities and academy of sciences,
being a professor in Cuban, Mexican, and American universities,
mastering four foreign languages, escaping from communism in Cuba,
working as a translator from English and Russian to Spanish, being
married, living in different homes during three years, prioritizing
fatherhood while being engulfed in conflicts between a revengeful first
wife and an extraordinary second wife, being a merry widower while
loving his special late wife, to systematically maintaining
cardiovascular fitness exercising his entire body for at least three
decades after turning 59 and having a heart attack, being able to reduce
fifty pounds of weight (slowly in small but systematic decreases) over
twenty three years, enjoying travelling around the world with his wife
or alone for more than six decades with a reasonable level of
expenditures.
What is one of the author's important ways to achieve a proactive
lifestyle and consequently defeating procrastination? How does he stand
up after a fall or even the menace or threat of achieving goals, as well
as believing in himself? Read to find out.
