Procrastinators unite… tomorrow! 

Do you want to know my favorite cleaning tip for when you just don’t want to clean your house?!⁣

Invite someone over!⁣

It’s foolproof.

Instead of a big open-ended never-finished task, you’ve now placed a deadline.

And then you just magically get it done in whatever time you have.

This is honestly one of the reasons why I love hosting play dates and parties at our home so often.

Because I am a procrastinator!⁣

And procrastinators need deadlines.

So what’s so wrong with procrastinating our repentance?⁣

“I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end”. (Alma 34:33)

First of all, we don’t know when the deadline is. ⁣

So we can’t wait until right before the deadline and cram in repentance, because then we’d probably miss it. ⁣

But much more importantly, what does repentance mean?⁣

To change. ⁣

And God doesn’t want us to wait to change. ⁣

Because that’s literally why we are here on earth! ⁣

In my home, I’m actually working on getting better at doing small cleaning habits so that I don’t even have to rush before friends come over. ⁣

And that’s what we really want in our spiritual lives, right?⁣

Making small little daily changes in order to just be more spiritually mature as we go, instead of trying to “grow up” later. ⁣

Seeing sin that has taken root and doing the daily maintenance to keep it at bay. ⁣

Or when things get really bad, and our lives need a “deep clean” – we just get it done.⁣

We realize we have the agency to start casting off that weight and moving toward freedom and cleanliness.

We rely fully upon the Savior for his cleansing power, but we have the agency to START that process. ⁣

Little sins, big sins, bad habits, weaknesses… ⁣

It’s an everyday maintenance. ⁣

And I think that when we realize this, it makes the sacrament that much more meaningful.

That little weekly check-in can serve as a mini deadline to help encourage us to stay motivated and try again.

“Yes, we should learn from the past, and yes, we should prepare for the future. But only now can we do. Now is the time we can learn. Now is the time we can repent.” – President Nelson

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black