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table 1.1 (continued)
Procrastination Style Awareness and Action Model

Promissory note procrastination is a Awareness: What changes have
form of personal procrastination you promised yourself that you’d
in which you make promises to make that are important for you to
yourself that you’ll take action to accomplish? What excuses do
improve what you’ve already put you make to sanitize delaying cer-
off. A classic example is making a tain actions that are in your best
New Year’s resolution and then interests?
not following through.
Action: On a five-point scale, with
one representing fact and truth and
five distortion and misrepresenta-
tion, at what point in the scale do
your excuses lie? If your excuses are
largely invalid, develop an action
plan to take concrete steps to fulfill
your commitment to yourself.

Faffing procrastination is what the Awareness: If you find yourself
word implies. This is aimlessly going around in circles doing one
frittering away time on useless busy activity after another without
activities, or appearing to look busy getting anywhere, what do you
but producing little to nothing of tell yourself to perpetuate this
value. In faffing procrastination, busyness myth?
you complain about being busy,
busy, busy, and that’s why you are Action: Reflect and identify three
weak points in the faffing process,
behind. Busy, busy, busy, but busy
doing what? such as believing that busywork is
the same as productive achieve-
ments. Target a real achievement.
Refuse to engage in faffing diver-
sions. Take one hour a day to
pursue your most ambitious and
productive goal.