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.