Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here.

And today we're going to talk all about opting out of procrastination or basically how to stop delaying the receiving of your

inheritance, which is one of beauty and joy and abundance. We're going to talk about that

today. I love talking about procrastination because, one, I'm a procrastinator in recovery in all

areas of my life, and I teach a lot about procrastination. We're going to talk about procrastination

in a more traditional sense very, very soon because I'm going to cover perfectionism,

which I think probably a lot of us suffer from,

and I'm going to talk about how procrastination is one of those features of perfectionism.

But today, we're really going to think about procrastination in a different way.

We're going to think about procrastination as it relates to struggle and delay.

And when you procrastinate, you stop or you delay something from happening.

And in this case, we're going to talk about how you can procrastinate your way out of joy,

out of abundance, out of beauty. And we're going to talk about how to opt out of

procrastination and opt into a life of now. So get ready, as always, for some opportunities to jot down

some thoughts. And as always, we close with a healing practice or tool that you can do right now to apply

what we are talking about.

If you are a procrastinator like me, you have seen procrastination show up in all aspects of

your life, like I said before. I am the queen

of procrastination, and it has been a painful process to unlearn some of the coping mechanisms

and behaviors that basically have served me well to an extent in my life,

that I loved the traditional sense of procrastination of like living on the edge,

waiting to a deadline. If you tell me the deadline is due on Wednesday at 12 o'clock at night,

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