Name: Stop procrastinating and start learning!
Uploaded: 2018-01-30T03:37:20.000Z
Duration: 22 min 20 s
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My name is Emma, and I
have a question for you.

To-infinitive

Imagine you have a big English test
that's going to happen very soon.

Do you open up your book and study right
away, and every day study for your test?

Do you think about your test, feel a
little bit sad and maybe go on Facebook?

Do you, instead of studying,
text your friends?

Or do you think about studying,
but instead just watch TV?

Okay, a lot of students will say that they
open up their book and study, but in reality

A lot of people before tests or presentations
or work get really, really nervous, and they

They don't want to do the studying, they don't
want to do the hard work, they're really afraid

to do it so instead they do something like go on
Facebook, call their friends, go to the mall.

These are all examples, two,
three, and four that is...

These three are examples
of procrastination.

So, "procrastination" is maybe a new word for
you, but it's a very, very important word

if you are a student or, you
know, even if you work.

It's actually an important word for everybody
because most people procrastinate.

Well, it's when you have something you have
to do, but instead of doing what you have

to do, you do something else that's
more fun, and you keep thinking:

"I'll come back to this", but you're
very busy with these other things.

So let's look at some examples
of the word procrastination.

We have it as a verb, an action:
"I am procrastinating."

Because I'm not studying, I'm on
Facebook, I'm procrastinating.

"I'm not studying. I
procrastinate a lot."

"I procrastinate a lot", which means: I don't
study, I don't do my English homework; instead,

I spend a lot of time texting my friends
and doing anything but English.

I can also use it as a noun: "My
procrastination is really bad."

So this means I have a problem getting stuff
done because I don't really want to do it,

I'd rather focus on doing
Facebook or something else.

Or we can also have it as a
noun to say what we are.

When I was in university sometimes
I was a procrastinator.

This means before any big test or presentation I'd
start working on it, and then I'd do something

We're going to talk about why people
procrastinate, and then we're going to talk about

Because it's something
we all need to fight.

So, different people procrastinate for different
reasons, but usually a lot of the times people

have the same reasons
for procrastinating.

People procrastinate when they
think something is difficult.

So for me I find math difficult, so when I
used to do math I would procrastinate and

I would do something else like, you know,
make a sandwich or clean my room even because

the math seemed so difficult to me,
anything was better than doing the math.

A lot of people find English grammar difficult,
and when they're studying grammar a lot of

the times they procrastinate, they text their
friends or they, you know, do anything but grammar.

A lot of people procrastinate
when something is boring.

You know, they want to do
something interesting.

People procrastinate when
something is a lot of work.

Okay? And they know it's a lot of work, so they
look at the task and it's just too much, so

then they want to feel good,
so they do something else.

A lot of people also procrastinate just
because they're scared or they're afraid.

They want to do something well, and they don't
think that they can so it well, so you know...

Or, you know, they're worried about making mistakes,
so a lot of the times people procrastinate

You know, they have stressful jobs, they have
all these stressful things going on, so they

They don't want to do
things that cause stress.

Because if you think about it, you want to be doing
something, you know, that makes you feel happy.

For a lot of these things because they don't
make you feel happy you don't want to do them,

But you'll actually find that usually the
thing that you have to do isn't that bad.

It's actually your mind and the way you think
about things that make it seem very bad and

very scary, but a lot of the times actually
it's just once you start it's a lot easier.

So let's look at some ways to fight procrastination,
because almost everybody procrastinates and

there are some really good
ways to stop procrastinating.

So, I want you to think about something in
your life right now, something that you have

to do but you don't really want to
do it, and you keep procrastinating.

Maybe you have to write an English essay,
maybe you have a test coming up, or a big

Maybe you actually just hate cleaning the
dishes, you hate washing the dishes and you

So these are things we
can procrastinate about.

For me, I have a big presentation in two
weeks-oh no!-and I have to get started on it.

So I've been procrastinating, so now I'm going to use
some of these tips to fight procrastination. Okay?

So, to get started with our
fight against procrastination,

I want you to look at
this as three parts.

We need to fight procrastination before
we start our task or our activity.

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