Procrastination: Time Management and Best Blueberry Muffins

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who loves to play behind his grandmothers house. One day he found a tree, this was no ordinary tree, this was a muffin tree. He ate one of the muffins and it was one of the best blueberry muffins he had ever had, and everyday he came back and had more delicious muffins, till one day he became very bored, and asked the tree " oh muffin tree, can you please make any other kind of muffin?" But the tree said nothing because it was a tree and tree do not speak. The next day the boy came back and found that to his surpise there was a new kind of muffin. He tried the muffin and it was even better than the first, then three minutes later he fall down dead. Moral of the story is not to wait to till the last minute to do a project because it leads to bs'ing and stress over it. This was an example of procratination; which is the delaying of any project or assignment. Procrastination is bad for your health and grades. Now that your throughly confused, lets talk about procrastination. Mr.Hellwig if you would look away for a second, so I can get an honest answer.By raise of hand, how many of you procratinated on this speech? Ok good thats terrible you should be ashamed of your self. They're aren't that many studies related to procrastination, because they areal put off...but on the studies that I did found show that two Important ascects of everyones lives were empacted by procrastination; which were health and work preformance a.k.a your grades. Imagine that you had a hugh test... next period. Whats your first though? Mine would be "oh God, I didn't study AGAIN!!!! I'm gonna fail and get shipped to military school and someday get hooked on drugs and become an social outcast and die alone... no? only I think that? well everyone still stresses about test and get that choked feeling, so you cram and the you get in to the test and your mind draws a complete blank. This stress could have easily been avoided through preparation. Anxity is a way your body is telling you it is under way to much stress. This can bring down your immune system, leading to procratinators getting sick more often. It has also been found that many people who procrastinate are more likely to develop depression because they isolate themselves to "get projects done." Sleep can also be affected though procrastination. Not having enough sleep makes to body think that its in trouble and it saves all extra energy contributing to weight gain. Without sleep,memory is also affected and your attention during class is low. Procrastination alter your grades too.Its now a week later and you get that test back... FFFFFFFF-iretruck, its a horrible grade. On a four point scale its said that moderate procrastinators would recieve a 3.6 to 3.4 and extreme procrastinators would get a average score of 2.9. Which a 2.9 relates to a 84. Which in theory sound descent,right? But on college appications, they don't just look at the grade you got in the courses, they also look at the type of classes that you have taken; such as all four years of Math and Science,or Ap and Ib courses. Through this they can see if a person is going to go all the way through getting degree or flunk out. High school is also a time to learn a good or disgusting work ethic. Which for people going straight in to the work force this would affect you insteatly when searching and working in a job. Sit back I'm going to paint you a picture. The night before that first hugh test, you just spent the last hour studying and now your going to bed at ten, waking up fully rested eat some breakfast; go to school; and take the test. Its a breeze, you even have time to spare and organize your folder. You get it back its a hundred. Your not going to be shipped to military school.Your not gonna get hooked on drugs, and Your not going to die alone! There are some of the things you can do to help with procrastination, like simply making a "to do list" or you know getting a agenda and using it... *shrug*. Another thing is to start small with stay after one day and getting some assignments in. Making a schedule to keep up with projects due later in the week and to work on big gradually. Best of all reward yourself with stuff, like candy or buying something you really wanted. This is in hopes that you make better habits for your future, it will help you in college and with your personal work ethic. Lastly, I'm not going to ask you to get great grades and do all your homework; cause thats just not possible. A procrastinator has to walk before they run. So this is all I'm asking... ONE... take it or leave it. One assignment thats all I'm asking ... maybe the next speech?