英语演讲5persuative speech

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Topic：starting a good new habit

Specific purpose: to persuade my audience to start a good habit and continue to do it

Central idea: the needs to form a good habit is well-known, and by making a little bit stretch and change , as well as some excitation mechanism, a good habit can form.

Main points: 1.the need to form a good habit

2.the way for people to form a good habit

3.the extra procedures-- Strengthen the habit formed

Introduction: Have you ever try to start doing some things that you know could benefit you a lot? Like starting to take regular exercise and make yourself slim ,so you can try every types of cloth style and you don’t have to ask a salesman whether if they have a big one. Or during the period of final exam , you have a final exam to take. The irony of this thing is that at the last night before the exam, your roommates have already fell asleep, but you have to stay up late to review, then you would regret for procrastinating every thing into last minute.

Body 1:From what i just said, i think that every person here has these

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moments of regret. Because we want to be better. When you are old and gray ,and look back on your life ,you will want to be proud of what you have done. The source of that pride won’t be the things you have acquired or the recognition you have received. It will be the difference you have made. And by cultivating a good habit, you would change your life.

Body2: So what can we do to form a good habit. As Daniel Gilbert,a social psychologist mentioned in his class that we first have to make our habits and then our habits make us , so a little bit stretch should be made when you decided to form a habit ,it brings you out of comfort zone into stretch zone. At the stretch zone, it only makes a little bit difference compared where you were before. For example, when you decide to do some exercise ,don’t try run 8miles a day ,instead starting with brisk walking and build it up gradually. Stretch a little but not too much. Because if you make a big change of your routine,you would enter the panic zone ,which would make you hard to persist. Secondly, persisting our attitude by action, it quite easy to changing our attitude. when we suffer from some unpleasant, our attitude would change immediately. but making it exist for a long time is hard . If our attitude changes, but our behavior doesn’t. Our attitude would be pulled down over time by our habits . So attitude change has to be matched by deeds ,by behavior.

Body3:yet i guess many you would say i don’t have too much discipline to engage in this action to get out and run 3 times or 5 times a week . But actually there is discipline, don’t think about making change through discipline,instead making those changes a routine,something you have to do everyday ,just like you

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have to eat.

Conclusion：it is always easier said than done ,unless we start doing theses things right after ,the change is going to be ephemeral, we are gonna go back to where we were before . So taking action now, pick a piece of paper and write the small change you want to make of your habit.