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Self-regulation failure (Part 1): Goal setting and monitoring

By Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. on February 16, 2009 in Don't Delay

The simplest way to think about a self-regulating system is how your thermostat functions with your furnace. As simple as this may be, this model does speak to our own ability for self-regulation, and it's a good place to start this discussion about when self-regulation fails.

To understand procrastination, we must understand self-regulation failure. And, of course, to understand self-regulation failure, we must begin with a little about self-regulation.

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