 However, if I bind myself against procrastination by buying a ticket for tomorrow’s game, when in the absence of the awful task I wouldn’t have done so, then I’ve violated intertemporal preference consistency. More vividly, had I been in a position to choose last week whether to procrastinate today, I’d have chosen not to. In this case, my discount curve drawn from the reference point of last week crosses the curve drawn from the perspective of today, and my preferences reverse. The figure below shows this situation.