6th Project for Toastmaster - Work With Words

Imagine a sniper, aiming at you and waiting for the right moment to take you down. Bam! There goes your life. Bad habit, to me, is just like a sniper. Silently crept into your life without you knowing it, caught you off guard whenever there’s a chance and destroy you. I have many bad habits. So many that I think I should be dead by now if bad habit is a really sniper as mentioned earlier.

The worst habit I have is Procrastination. According to an article, Procrastination is actually a mental problem. The process actually comes this way. Firstly, you want to achieve some outcome, usually something you and others value and respect–”I’ve got to start.” You delay, briefly thinking of real and imagined advantages of starting to change later–”I’ll do it tomorrow when I don’t have much to do.” You delay more, becoming self-critical–”I should have started sooner”–and/or self-excusing–”I really couldn’t have left the party early last night, my best friends were there.” You may hide or pretend to be busy; you may even lie about having other obligations. You delay still more, until finally the task has to be done, usually hastily–”Just get it done any old way”–or you just don’t have time–”I can’t do this!” You berate yourself–”There is something wrong with me”–and swear never to procrastinate again and/or you discount the importance of the task–”It doesn’t matter.” You repeat the process almost immediately on other important tasks, as if it were an addiction or compulsion.

Procrastination seems to strangle me so hard just like vampire seeking for fresh blood that I could hardly breathe. I delayed and rushed through for almost any assignment given to me. This is the main reason why I ended up in the ever stupid form 6 and not doing my well in anything at all. Procrastination is the thief of Time. I’ve known this proverb from Anon since I’m young, but yet I let procrastination take away my good results and my life. I hate Procrastination, but yet why it won’t stop hunting me down? I run, I shout and I surrender, but yet It hunts, It grabs and It lies it’s fang on me. Procrastination has hit me even harder than drug addiction, but of course I don’t do drugs.

Another demon that haunted me is Disorganization. Being disorganized has cost me having to pay through my nose for many things. Especially when it comes bundled together with Procrastination. I have to pay for extra courier service in order to meet deadlines as I would either misplaced what I have to send or totally forgot about it. I have to drive at high speed to reach meeting places as I would sit in front of the computer even though it’s time for me to go risking throwing my life away just like that. Or else it would be ransacking through my piles of paper to search for the notes I needed. If you are at my house, you would see that my stuffs are basically EVERYWHERE. In my room, on the counter and even on the bed I’m sleeping in. The biggest problem is, I realized that I have such bad habits but yet not much effort has been put in to get rid of them.

These are the two habits that have make me suffered many unnecessary pain and agony. Hopefully, soon enough I could get rid of it though I know it would be as hard as trying to rehab from drug addiction. All I could ask for is I could stop being haunted by those deadly demons and turn over a new leaf. I really should get the ball start rolling and pull my socks to really get rid of them to survive in this dog eat dog world.