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

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