Preparing for a conference paper

The day for my conference presentation about L2 motivation is approaching.

Despite this, I had been occupied by the other research on explicit and implicit learning. As this is currently the most primary topic, it is very difficult for me not to think about this, and once started thinking, I never stop this train of thought!

But when I checked with my diary and counted how many days until the conference, I finally realised that I MUST start preparing for this. If the same topic or even a part of this was presented before, I shouldn't have worried about, but this is the VERY first time to present in public.

I had a big worry before I started, but as soon as I actually started, my worries had gone.

I had thought about this motivation research a lot and made a detail proposal in spring. I forgot most of it, but soon after I started reading the proposal, my memory came back quickly.

This morning, I went to Starbucks and made the ppt slides. I was confident to make it during the morning. When I have such confidence, without exception the work goes smoothly. After about two and half hours, I could finish producing the draft slides.

This is the very first draft, so I need to revise it a lot until the day of the conference. But looking at the shape of the presentation, even though this is incomplete and very rough, makes me feel relieved. I believe this relaxed, unpressured tate of mind is also very important for doing good research.