Procrastinaton

Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of reasons why people procrastinate and ways to stop procrastination.

I. Introduction

I am a procrastinator. Meaning I have the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, and it can be a major problem in both of my career and personal life. As I was preparing this speech, I was already thinking about procrastinating. I had to make a decision whether I attend a party that I know I am going to enjoy or stay home doing schoolwork being completely miserable. It is a dilemma that I constantly deal with and I always end up putting my schoolwork to the side. I stay up all night trying to finish my work and wake up rushing out the door while I hear my mom screaming these infamous words, “You need to get your life together.” As I am driving doing about 100mph on my P.O.S. of a car, I am just thinking to myself, “Why do I do this.” When deep inside I know I have the potential. I tell myself that I am going to stop. It is definitely not easy. Sometimes I think I need to get psychological attention, be on some kind of drugs, hypnotize me, perform voodoo, I don’t know just do something.

II. There are two types of procrastinators.

A. The relaxed type, (me) which feels negatively toward his/her work, blows it off, and forgets it.

1. Most procrastinators are easily distracted such as myself and we intend to do things that are completely meaningless instead of doing the things that we should be doing.

2. We also feel that we have all the time in the world. If we do not get it right this time there is always a next and if not that one, there will be others and it just keeps on going.

B. The tense-afraid type has a feeling of overwhelm ness by pressure, unrealistic about time, uncertain about goals, dissatisfied with accomplishments, indecisive, blaming others or circumstance for his/her failures, lacking in confidence and sometimes perfectionists.

III. Why do people procrastinate?

A. Poor time management

B. Overload of tasks

C. Feeling overwhelmed

D. Being bored of the task

E. Avoiding of things which are dislike or difficult

IV. How to overcome procrastination.

A. Know