Email Service Notes (Jesse)

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This picture shows us two completely different learning habits. The girl on the left started as early as possible in order to finish her work in time. The boy, however, would not begin until the deadline. We usually call the girl an “early bird” while the boy a “procrastinator”.

Even though both of them might hand in their work in time, we could safely deduce that the girl’s work would be better than the boy’s. Didn’t the boy want to perform well? I think he did. But unluckily he had already developed a bad habit of delaying his task again and again.

I believe in our daily life, there are both early birds and procrastinators. Since early birds are better than procrastinators, how do we change ourselves if we find ourselves a procrastinator? First, try to make friends with early birds and learn from them. Second, make everyday plans for each task and achieve them step by step. We can leave ourselves some time to “breathe”, say, a day break, so that we can make up for those unfinished tasks. Third, we can give ourselves some bonuses for our good behaviour. Day by day, we will find ourselves shake off those bad habits and grow to be early birds.

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This picture shows us two completely different learning habits. The girl on the left started as early as possible in order to finish her work in time. The boy, however, would not begin until the deadline. We usually call the girl an “early bird” while the boy a “procrastinator”.

Even though both of them might hand in their work on time, we could safely deduce that the girl’s work would be better than the boy’s. Didn’t the boy want to perform well? I think he did. But unluckily / unfortuantely he had already developed the bad habit of delaying his task again and again / of constantly putting off his work.

I believe in our daily lives, there are both early birds and procrastinators. Since early birds are better than procrastinators, how do we change ourselves if we find ourselves to be a procrastinator? First, try to make friends with early birds and learn from them. Second, make everyday plans / daily plans for each task and achieve them step by step. We can leave ourselves some time to “breathe”, say, a day break, so that we can make up for (you mean catch up on?) those unfinished tasks. Third, we can give ourselves some bonuses for our good behaviour. Day by day, we will find ourselves shaking off those bad habits and growing to be / and developing into early birds.