Do It Now

My thoughts on Elder Hallstrom's talk "Do it Now"

What a funny story and how embarrassing! I’m a huge procrastinator and I need to do better. It was one of my goals for the new year and yet, here I am behind on my own group and the projects are piling up on my desk.

When I first saw the title of this talk not having heard it because I don’t go to the Priesthood session, I thought of Pres. Kimball and his sign “Do it!” My brothers, who were teens when President Kimball was the prophet (OK, I was too, but I was in my early teens) had a sticker on our bathroom mirror that said, “Do it!” I don’t know how many Saturdays I would find my list of jobs taped underneath that sign. What a wonderful memory I had!

Easy Street is truly a dead end and yet, ~sign~ I try to take it way too often.

Now is the time to exercise faith and obedience. I need to put my like back on track. I need to stop procrastinating. I need to DO IT NOW!

Then after I model it my children will do it too. I spend a lot of time on the computer and of course my children think that the only reason to be on the computer is to play games so they don’t realize I’m working, reading, studying and all those other good things. Maybe I need to get up and work, move my work station, print off the information I want to read about. Maybe I need to model a “do it now” attitude.