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What can you draw upon to bridge the gap between waiting
and acting? When you start a productive process and a resistance
arises, look to your resources from your SWLO and career congru-
ence lists. What do you have going for you that can be matched
against the emotional resistance? Is it flexibility, innovativeness,
and resourcefulness? Can you call upon conscientiousness, com-
mon sense, and knowing how to profit from wise advice when
you ask for it? By intentionally shifting from procrastination think-
ing and emotional resistance to applying what you have going
for you, you can tip the balance in favor of accomplishment over
procrastination.
There is rarely a quick and easy way out of a procrastination
habit. Making meaningful personal changes is often like slogging
through a knee-deep swamp. The wading is not easy. However, if
you don’t slog your way out, the chances are that you’ll stay stuck.
If it turns out that you move with a fleetness of foot that surprises
you, so much the better.

Evaluate Your Progress

We can separate evaluation from execution, but only artificially.
Thus, the entire five-phase program is an interactive and organic
process.
At different phases and points in time in the process of execu-
tion, missions, goals, plans, and evaluation form a grand convec-
tion in which the critical elements come together. You stick with
the system when experience shows that you can make it work ef-
fectively. Changes come into play when it is clear that you’d be wise
to try another way. This happens when parts of the plan are not
workable or it would be too costly to make them work.

Evaluation as Feedback and Guide. Evaluation is a form of feedback
and guidance that gives you a measure of change and a basis for
adjusting what you can next do to further your goals. Here are
some feedback questions: