Stop Wasting Time, Get On With It

Simply Story Poetry

Hi, I'm Beverley Joy of Simply Story Poetry. I wrote this poem when my daughters had grown up and moved out of our family home and were living independently. I had always been there for them. I was a proud doting mum. I had continued to push my goals to the side. I don't regret a minute of my motherhood years. But the time had come when I had no more excuses. Even my girls were telling me to do more with my life than be a servant to everyone.

It felt strange to throw out my old 'motherhood' lifestyle, that I was so comfortable and safe in, to replace it with a lifestyle as a single mature aged woman. I was getting older, my youth was slipping away. I needed to smarten up and start working on achieving the goals that had sat dormant in my heart, but that now were stamping their feet to be let out.

I didn't know where to start or what to do first. I had never made plans that revolved around just me. I felt guilty and selfish. But I did realize that to achieve my writing goals, I needed to stop procrastinating by being 'busy' doing non-goal related tasks around the house, which I could always find plenty of them to do, and learn to focus my attention and time on goal-related tasks. That was easier said than done!

Then, one day, in 2014, I sat down at my tablet and spent three days straight typing my memoirs. It would be another six years before I gave my rough notes to an author to write them into a novel, which will be released later this year, 2022. It was during that six-year period that I wrote this and many poems, which I published on this website and my podcast last year and will self-publish into books this year.

You can read my poems at Simply Story Poetry on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and at simplystorypoetry.com.

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