Jon Acuff

It's very true.

Well, I mean, I think part of it is just examining your labels and making sure you're good with them.

You know, we assign ourselves labels, especially as adults.

I met somebody the other day, and she said, well, I'm not athletic, and that's a label.

And then she said, my strongest muscle has always been my brain, and that's a label.

And then she said, my sister was the athletic one, I was the smart one.

And she decided probably in the eighth grade when she got cut from the volleyball team, I'm not an athletic person, and then added I'm clumsy, and then doesn't think she gets to exercise

for the next 60 years of her life.

And so in a situation like that, I'd go, hey, I don't think that label's helping you.

So if you say to me, well, I'm a procrastinator, that's just who I am, I would probably ask you some questions to say, are you getting the things you want out of life?

And are they impacting your family?

If you're a parent, it impacts your kids.

There's a kid in our neighborhood, I always think about this little buddy,

he would ride or walk to a neighborhood swim practice because his mom was such a procrastinator.

She was always late and he was an on-time kind of kid and it really embarrassed him and it really drove him crazy.

So about mid-summer, he just started finding his own way.

Just started going, you know what?

I know I'm seven and I probably shouldn't essentially hitchhike, but I'm going to find my way to swim practice.

So in that situation, I would say to that mom, like, hey,

I know you're kind of used to being late, but that's a changeable thing.