Procrastinators Welcome Part II: Laser Pointer Draws Parallels Between Tax Day and Presentations

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Don't end up in front of an auditor or an audience with that sinking feeling

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 08, 2014

April 15 is tax day and according to the IRS, roughly 1 in 5 Americans will file their taxes in the final week before the deadline. It seems that this has become National Procrastination Week! Armchair psychologists wonder why people would put this off when many of them will receive refunds. Is it because the task just seems overwhelming?

Laser Pointer has seen the same trend when it comes to healthcare speakers who must prepare their presentation for an upcoming lecture. Medical and Dental speakers are often booked to do lectures months, or often even a year in advance. And yet, like with taxes, they’ll happily admit to figuring out their slides on the airplane hours before they go onstage.

In both of these cases, there doesn’t seem to be a lack of caring. People are highly motivated to get their taxes correctly filed AND to look good in front of an audience. Standard excuses for both tasks run the gamut from “I needed to find the time to focus on this” to “I hate this process so I kept putting it off”. True procrastination is formally defined as a complicated failure of self-regulation; experts define it as the ‘voluntary delay of some important task that we intend to do, despite knowing that we’ll suffer as a result’. No matter how procrastination is defined, it never leads to better results. And it never feels good.

Solutions? Many chronic tax day procrastinators have found a tax preparer who will accept a “shoe-box” of their documents and take this task off their hands. Interestingly, this seems to give them the emotional ability to turn things over earlier. Laser Pointer offers the same service to presentation procrastinators. “Many of our customers provide us with an outline or a hodgepodge of slides, and ask us to create a slide deck for them,” says Margy Schaller, President of Laser Pointer. “With our deep industry knowledge, we are able refine or even build their presentations and allow them to focus on revenue-generating tasks that they love.”

On the other hand, the procrastinator that does finally decide to move forward on their own often gets into a last minute panic. That’s a breeding ground for sloppy mistakes. Taxes and presentations are not the place for typos, missing information or poorly organized information. That can be expensive! This year don’t end up in front of an auditor or an audience with that horrible sinking feeling.

Laser Pointer is a presentation design firm dedicated to helping clinical speakers take their presentations from good to great to profound. For more information or to schedule a free consultation, please go to http://www.laserpointerpresentations.com or contact Margy Schaller at 619-994-0293. She accepts calls from airports.

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