effects on project completion

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effects on project completion

• students were given a week to do a short
  study project
• they were asked to predict when they would begin
  when they would finish
• both process outcome students got started more
  promptly than controls
• process students were more effective at finishing
  on time than the other two groups
• process students also said they found the project
  easier than the other two groups did

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doing process visualisation exercises
for 5 minutes each day imagine yourself managing
the tasks of the day in a way that will help
you be very successful in achieving your
priorities
see yourself coping really well both with the
external problems and dis-tractions you may need
to tackle, and also with the internal emotions
that might make things difficult