It is easy to lack motivation. Do you put jobs off until another day? Is there work to be done that you simply cannot get around to? Adam Embry asks why, and declines the obvious answers about time management, going instead to what a persistent failure to act reveals about what a person actually wants and fears.

The treatment is short and pointed, moving from diagnosis to the ordinary disciplines that follow from a changed view of work as service rather than burden. Part of Shepherd Press's LifeLine mini-book series: brief, inexpensive, and written for use in counseling or personal reading. Useful for students, for anyone in a season of drift, and for a counselor who keeps meeting the problem.