I had this epiphany about 2 months ago. You know, that 2:30 AM voice in your spirit that gives you all those great ideas that you never follow through with? That’s the one. But this time it was a yell. DENISE! STOP PROCRASTINATING! I jumped out of the bed and got my handy pink notebook (you have one too right? It probably isn’t pink though) and wrote the title to this blog post and Youtube video.

Guess what I did after that? I laid my lazy behind back down! For shame! After forcing myself to turn the light back on and develop this teeth-pulling accountability piece, I came up with more ideas that had been simmering within me for months on end.

In developing this tattle-tale post, it occurred to me that my procrastinating is serial at it’s core. The good thing about this discovery is that it irritated me enough to want to do something about it. So here I am, doing something about it.

You may have noticed that my last post was published more that 2 STINKING YEARS AGO! Isn’t that just shameful? Yes it is. And it made me think about what Dr. Myles Munroe said about the cemetery being the richest place on earth because people die without carrying out their ideas and inventions. Well I’ve decided I’m not doing that.

Here are a couple of things that I haven’t yet moved on:

My Youtube channel. Simply called Denise Long. The last thing I posted there was two years ago as well. That is, until I posted my procrastination video a few days ago.

I got my Notary Commission in 2000-something (so long ago I don’t remember), and I didn’t work it at all! Well, I actually performed 4 notarizations throughout the entire four-commission. Now that I am newly recommissioned, I won’t do that again. That would not be smart at all! There’s too much money out there.

My solution to this problem is this: once I decide to do something I have to do it! Even if have have to schedule it in my calendar. But I can no longer pussy-foot my life away. The ants don’t lie around waiting for survival to happen, they actively cause it to happen.

I must hold myself accountable and I have to start by being real with me. I know who I am. I’m a procrastinator that needs her behavior before it’s too late! I refuse to face regrets about why I didn’t do this or how I should’ve just done that. I will not take my ideas and books to the grave. No one can change this narrative but me. So here goes!

I’ll be back!