Meaning of TO PUT OFF - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

So in English, when you put off something,

it means that you delay doing it.

I just went to the dentist today,

and I'll be honest.

I was putting off going to the dentist for a long time.

That means for the past year I haven't gone to the dentist,

and every time I was supposed to go,

I would put it off.

In other words, I would call the dentist,

and I would say that I couldn't make it for whatever reason,

and I would change the date.

So I kept putting off the date

that I was supposed to go to the dentist.

I don't like going to the dentist.

I don't like sitting in the dentist chair.

I don't like having my teeth cleaned.

I don't like sitting with my mouth open for a long time,

so I was putting off going to the dentist for quite a while.

So if you put off something, you delay it.

If you do that a lot, if you put stuff off a lot,

sorry, if you put stuff off a lot,

it means that you have a tendency to procrastinate.

It's a pretty big word, procrastinate,

but if you procrastinate a lot,

it means that you delay a lot.

You do a lot of things at the last minute,

and you are regularly putting things off.

I'm not normally a procrastinator, okay?

Normally, I plan things well in advance,

and I get things done in a timely fashion.

So I usually don't procrastinate,

but if you are someone who regularly delays doing things

and regularly puts things off,

you might be a procrastinator.