I will do it tomorrow!

Anybody out there ever guilty of saying, I will do it tomorrow? I have both hands up right now because I do. Not a lot, I’m really not a procrastinator by nature, but I do it. Tomorrow I will read that book. Tomorrow I will work out and eat healthier. Tomorrow I will get back to church. Tomorrow I will call that friend or relative. Tomorrow I will finish that degree. Tomorrow I will organize my closet. Tomorrow I will de-clutter. I will be a better employee tomorrow. I mean I could go on all day long with this! Are you getting the picture? Are you guilty?

I understand that some times we have things that cannot happen until tomorrow. You might in fact be preparing for something for tomorrow, it’s a goal you have set, and every day you are working toward that goal. That’s fantastic, and not what I’m talking about here. What I am talking about is all the stuff we put off until tomorrow, but somehow, tomorrow comes and goes and we’re still where we were before we started. Some people are just naturally procrastinators by nature. Takes all kinds of people to make up this great big wonderful world. I for one am not a procrastinator, I wasn’t wired that way. I will stay up until the wee hours of the night finishing a project around my house or work that needs to be done or preparing something for the next day, but even I am guilty of saying I will do it tomorrow about some things, and I am telling myself today that if I keep doing that, it’s never going to happen.

For ten years now I have started and stopped a budget and paying off debt. Did you hear how long I said I have been doing that? 10 years!!!!!! But then I see something I just have to have NOW! Really?! Am I going to die if I don’t have that dress, or that lantern on my deck, or that chair for my living room? What I really should be doing is saving and preparing to buy that, not charging it. So ten years later, there’s still debt that I’ve been working on! Great plan putting that off until tomorrow huh!?

What have you been putting off for tomorrow and like me, ten years later, you’re stuck in the same place? A degree that you set out to get? A home you wanted to buy? Think about this for a minute, are you doing anything today to get you closer to what you want? Are you planning to fail or failing to plan?

I wish we would all wake up and stop letting life pass us by still stuck in the same rut year after year, setting those new years resolutions that we never stick to. Wouldn’t life be so much better if we followed through with something? Wouldn’t we feel like we have succeeded at something?

So today, heed my warning! Do it today! Don’t put it off for tomorrow. We are not promised tomorrow so why not start today? Lose that 10 pounds, eat more veggies, learn to swim, read those books you bought, finish that degree, take that cooking class, spend more time with those you love. Don’t lay on the couch every day depressed because life is passing you by and dreaming of having what others have. You can have it too! Nothing in your life, your childhood, your upbringing has the power to stop you if you don’t let it! Sure, some have better opportunities than others and advantages, but if you want something bad enough, you will find a way to get it!

I hope today, that you get off the couch, and GO GET IT!

With love for you all,

Shauna