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10 Mar 09

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12 Dec 08

Explain in a sentence or two that you fell short of your goals in your previous job

10 Dec 08

Procrastination carries a financial penalty, endangers health, harms relationships and ends careers
Procrastination is about not having projects in your life that really reflect your goals
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- temporal delay
- immediate gratification is more motivating than are prizes or accolades to be accrued in the distant future
- A person who is impulsive also is a procrastinator at risk
- fear of failure
- sensitive,” meaning distractible, impulsive or lacking in self-control
- sensitivity to delay and delay itself decrease the utility of a task and lead to procrastination
- avoidance is the prime motivator.
- strategically delay projects to excuse poor performance
- To cope with the guilt and anxiety brought on by waiting until the last minute, some students acquired all the books for an assignment as soon as it was given and placed them on a shelf. The students said that by shelving the books they “shelved” their discomforting thoughts about the task.
- replacing the reflex to postpone with time-stamped prescriptions for action
- Setting such specific prescriptions does appear to inhibit the tendency to procrastinate
- The anticipation of the task often is far worse than the task turns out to be