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tions. What we already know about curbing procrastination can
only get better.

End Procrastination Now! Your Plan

Throughout this book, you’ll find dozens of coordinated ways to
advance your productive interests and decrease procrastination
interferences. As an additional tool, at the end of each chapter of
End Procrastinating Now! you’ll find space for a procrastination
journal of what you found important to remember, what you
planned to do, what you did to execute the plan, what resulted, and
what you can do with what you learned. This journal will give you
an ongoing record that you can refer to whenever you want to re-
view what you accomplished and use what you learned to move
yourself to a higher level of confidence and accomplishment. It
consists of four parts: key ideas, action plan, implementing ac-
tions, and what you learned. You can refer to the information when
you want to remind yourself of what works for you, or use it as a
tool to build your own program by putting together your own ac-
tion plans.
There is much that you can do to gain relief from procrastina-
tion. By taking a longer-term self-education perspective, you are
less likely to follow the procrastination path. By looking for op-
portunities to pit reason against procrastination deceptions, you
are less likely to skid onto the procrastination path. By accepting
unpleasant emotions and sensations as temporary, you are less
likely to recoil from normal forms of discomfort. By forcing your-
self to start taking corrective actions, you load the dice in favor of
less hassle, more accomplishments, and a healthier and happier
lifestyle. Let’s get started!