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table 1.1 (continued)
Procrastination Style Awareness and Action Model

Change procrastination is avoiding Awareness: What situations do you
change. This frequency of this back away from to suppress feeling
reaction increases when you face uncertain? What do you tell yourself
uncertainties, you feel awkward, or to justify the delay?
your ego gets in the way. Change
procrastination may overlap with Action: Since change is inevitable,
what three changes do you back
reactance procrastination when you
resent dropping one thing to do away from that you can benefit
another, or when the change chal- from making? What three tech-
lenges a traditional view that you niques have you read about that
you believe you can apply to sup-
are reluctant to give up.
port making these changes?
Lateness procrastination can be a Awareness: If you have a habit of
challenging habit to break. You starting late, what purpose does
habitually show up late for meet- this delaying action serve? Does it
ings, appointments, and social continue because it has gone on
events. This procrastination style before?
has characterizing features. When
the time comes for you to leave for Action: What’s your incentive to act
meetings or appointments, you to change the pattern? Leave a
message on your own answering
make phone calls, shower, and look
for missing paperwork, and so the unit describing steps you should
list goes on. take so as not to start late. Then
listen to the message one hour
before the time comes to depart.

Learning procrastination, and its Awareness: Where can you most
subvariety academic procrastina- profit from advancing your knowl-
tion, refers to avoiding study edge through study but don’t follow
and learning. Like many other pro- through? How do you get in your
crastination subvarieties, learning own way and stop yourself from
procrastination is a complex pro- studying?
crastination style that can occur at
work, at school, and at home. How Action: Interact with learning infor-
about that book you bought on mation as often as you can. Make
it concrete. Make it applicable.
plumbing that is gathering dust?
Put three methods on a wallet-
sized card that reminds you how
to handle procrastination urges,
thinking, and behavioral diver-
gences when you are about to
engage in study.