I'm Done Procrastinating and Here's My Plan to Change Everything

Dr. Shon shares her personal struggle with procrastination, discipline, and consistency despite her success as a dental practice owner. She launches her "consistency experiment" on Twitch to see if showing up daily can build a community while balancing the demands of running a dental practice.

• Battling procrastination and lack of discipline despite professional success
• Finding balance between dentistry career and content creation passion
• Commitment to showing up consistently on Twitch regardless of circumstances
• Reality of dental practice ownership being challenging and sometimes draining
• Coming from poverty to dental school to practice owner
• Importance of not rushing to grow up and enjoying each stage of life
• Learning from successful Twitch creators about consistency principles
• Testing whether consistency alone can build an engaged community

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction and New Song Mention
• 1:44 Why Twitch Matters to Me
• 2:55 Battling Procrastination and Discipline Issues
• 5:01 The Consistency Challenge
• 7:50 Reality of Owning a Dental Practice
• 11:40 Consistency, Discipline, and No More Excuses

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:37

guys, welcome back to another live listen. I had six viewers on my little live video yesterday. So, hey guys, um, if this is your first time catching me live, my name is dr sean the motivational dentist. I also go by dr chief the sunflower and, yeah, I just put out a new song. Y'all go check out my new song. Shut the up. It's my f*** up. It's my birthday. Turn the f*** up. It's my birthday. Pour another cup. My birthday. Looking good, today, it's my birthday.

Speaker 1: 1:12

Anywho, I'm trying to put more energy into Twitch. Like, seriously, guys, I don't know how many times I got to tell this story, like y'all probably. Like what girl, what, what? But anywho, I have been just wanting to be a part of Twitch for so long. But I realized a lot about Twitch that you really have to be consistent. Show up, share your message. You know, you know, do the little Twitch thing. So yeah, share your message. You know, you know, do the little twitch thing. So yeah, a couple weeks ago I ended up getting this cord for my um sony a700 camera, just so I can use my real camera for twitch, because I was using my webcam and it kept dropping the feed and I didn't like that shit. So I had to order this cord for my camera so that I can get on here without it flipping out like that. But you can also go live like this from the cell phone. So I said I'd rather do it this way than be inconsistent.

Speaker 1: 2:14

You know what I'm saying, because, listen, if y'all haven't seen what's going on with the economy, like all this stuff going on, I try not to pay attention to the news because I feel like watching the news gets you old really, really fast. It makes you old, it burns you out. And no, who got time for that? No, so I'm trying to be forever young, even though I'm a dentist, even though I'm in my career. I'm trying to be forever young, guys is even though I'm in my career. I'm trying to be forever young guys. If you younger than 20, you younger than 30, do not let people age you. Don't let people make you feel older too fast. Don't even age yourself too fast, because everything is going so fast. Everybody want to be grown so fast. But don't Listen, take your time, guys. You're going to be old as f***ing up You're going to gonna be. You know, whatever age you trying to be soon enough. Just take your time, enjoy every second of your life. Enjoy every second of your life.

Speaker 1: 3:13

All right now, just to fill y'all in on my channel, please go ahead and like, subscribe. There's no likes on twitch, what am I talking about? But if you're watching this on the replay on my youtube live channel, then like, subscribe, comment all that good stuff, because, yeah, I am doing a little research project on myself, but it involves you guys. I need y'all to hold me accountable. I really need a community, an audience, supporters, that's going to hold me accountable. All right, you're like dang, dr Sean, you ain't accountable, you with dentists or whatnot.

Speaker 1: 3:48

But listen, guys, all my life I can admit that I have had a problem with procrastination and discipline. You know procrastination and discipline all my life, even though I went through dental school. Even though I went through dental school, even though I have these degrees, even now as a dental practice owner, I have an issue with procrastination, discipline and I will also add consistency to that, because I've been trying to be consistent on Twitch for a while and I keep failing. Big time. I would get a big fat f like a big f. So now I said you know what? What is stopping me from being consistent? Because nowadays, we have to be consistent about something you know if you want to do anything in life. I think that's the key and that's the one thing I really been lacking consistency. I have procrastination and discipline. If you want to do anything in life you want to be a doctor, you want to be a content creator, you want to do anything to practice, you got to be consistent. Guys, consistently positive and consistently show up, which is something I have not been able to do for the past couple years and I could not figure out why I'm not being consistent, and one reason is because I'm all.

Speaker 1: 5:04

I'm spreading myself too thin, trying to be on every platform, and one thing I did do is I watched the greats, the grace of twitch. If you know who the grace of twitch are, then you know who the grace of twitch are and I looked at how they set their stuff up. I looked at the platforms that they use to share their twitch lives. I look at how consistent they are. I look at the type of content they content they do and I try to say hey, I'm a dentist, I'm lit, I like to play video games. You know, I ain't trying to be this old grumpy person. Don't don't know how to use twitch, don't know how to use Twitch, don't know how to use nothing. I'm trying to stay on all axes with it. You know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying. So for me I'm like, you know what. I'm trying this consistency thing on Twitch again, and I know I keep saying again because this would be like my sixth time trying consistency again on any platform.

Speaker 1: 5:58

Because, as a dentist, you know, know, running a dental practice that takes up a lot of my time. But I'm like these young adults, these even, whatever age you are, they make it walk on twitch, y'all making what I'm making in the day as a dentist. Sometimes you know what I'm saying, um, minus the overhead. But I realize that dentistry is cool, but I don't want dentistry to be my main thing. I really want to build a community online of people that I can motivate, of people that I can talk about teeth with, people that I can talk about. You know how to go from hood to hood, because I came from the hood, I came poverty, I came from a lot of traumatic situations and I feel like I can help some people out and I feel like having a live audience is going to be so much better for me, but I'm willing to do the work and that's the key.

Speaker 1: 6:54

Yesterday I went live for one little minute and I said consistency, you got to show up and you also have to show quality content. But for me I feel like once I get the consistent piece there, the quality will come, because for me I will make some quality content, but then it takes so long to do it that I don't. I'm not consistent. So I feel like if I do consistency before the quality give me, am I tripping y'all? Am I tripping with this shit or am I? Am I saying something that's valid? If I do consistency over quality, then I feel like I can add quality as I go. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 7:37

So I said today, you know what I am going to hit this live button. I'm. I'm in my work clothes, I'm driving to get something to eat for lunch. I'm going just right to freaking burger king because I haven't had an Impossible Whopper in a little minute and shouldn't be eating this. But hey, it's life. So I said let me be consistent and just go live on Twitch while I'm driving to get something to eat. You know what I mean. I have to start somewhere and I can't be afraid of not having any viewers in the room and that's the one thing that can prevent people from going live. Staying live is, you know, trying to get over those thresholds that they give you. More than five people live. More than this people live.

Speaker 1: 8:16

So for me, for my community that I'm building here on Twitch, I'm gonna show up for y'all, I, I, I. That's the one thing that I feel like I owe. Any audience on any platform is to just show up. I can't go a whole month and not show up and expect people to follow me and subscribe, like that's delusional. So I said you know what? I can't be everywhere. I have a lot of people on Facebook but they don't be liking my. They don't be. I don't know what's going on with the algorithms on Facebook, but I have people on Facebook but Facebook just is not it anymore for me. And Twitch has been in my ear. I learned how to use Twitch. It is a learning curve, but I said I'm willing to go through that learning curve and do what I need to do to grow on this platform period.

Speaker 1: 9:04

So that means showing up, spending time on here, chilling with my audience, even just getting to know the people who are on twitch, sharing it and being unapologetic man. It's the season to be unapologetic because so many people getting stuck in their ways, they're getting stuck doing things they don't want to do, getting stuck at jobs that you don't like. When this internet is open and it's free guys, it's free and I have to tell myself that, like what am I doing? Like what? Why am I sitting here, not using my talent to the fullest potential? You know what I'm saying. Like today, I just got off of work Running a dental practice. I did a root canal Cleaning. I'm doing whatever it takes to keep the practice open, but I also realized you know what it takes to keep the practice open. But I also realized, you know what I got to do something else. I have to do something else. Like, I have to do something else and I have been just afraid of Twitch.

Speaker 1: 9:58

I came from Periscope. People don't know what that is, but Periscope was the first live platform ever. It was connected to Twitter and it's probably about almost 10 years old, you know, and it didn't last long because everybody else got the live algorithm on the platform. So that's why everybody has a live feature, but I was one of the first people to experience live when it was like what the you see people live like? When it was like that like, oh my god, I can't believe it. It was like what is this? It was that type of feeling like if you're not younger now, you like what? But I, I saw it at at its birth. I will say so, I saw it at its birth and I'm good at going live. I'm very good at going live like, especially when I'm not like driving and I can actually build an audience. So that's the part that I can't shy away from. I have to build my audience and I have to show up consistently, with determination, with unapologeticness, to this platform. Otherwise, I'm going to lose every day to this platform. Otherwise, I'm going to lose every day. I'm going to lose every day and I'm going to take my loss as a lesson every day. Y'all, I'm going to take those losses until I build this audience. And then my plan with this experiment is to see how far I can go with consistency. Will people follow me? Will I inspire people? Will this platform grow for me? Will it work for me just by being consistent? You know I ain't doing no niche, all that. I'm just gonna give y'all me.

Speaker 1: 11:27

I'm a dentist, you know, I'm an entrepreneur, I have my own dental practice and it is a struggle. It ain't like I got my own dental practice and I'm balling, because if I was balling I probably wouldn't even be looking for other ways to connect to people and to build an audience and to get dentistry into the mainstream world. But having a practice is hard as f**k. I can't even lie. It's one of the hardest things I ever did. Well, dental school is the hardest thing I ever did in my life. Losing my mom is one of the hardest things I ever experienced in my life. But having a practice is one of the hardest experiences I'm facing right now. It's hard as f**k y'all. I can't even. I can't even sugarcoat it.

Speaker 1: 12:08

It's like some days I just be like what the f**k am I doing, bro? Like why did I become a dentist? Some days it'd be like that. Other days, when I can help people get out of pain or the case go right, then it's like dang. This is why I love this, because I can help people and I can do me and I can motivate other people like you know what I mean. But some days, when the cases don't go right, you working on this case, it's just like, oh my god, you know it don't be all there, you know. So that's what I'm dealing with now is just being unapologetic and showing up for y'all and showing up for myself, and just doing this little research experiment and just being consistent. If I can just do that, I feel like we're going to grow and we're going to learn something About these three things Consistency, discipline.

Speaker 1: 12:59

And what's the other one? I said consistency, discipline, and there's one more. Do you guys know what it is dealing with? Procrastination. So consistency, discipline meaning having that intuition, having that mindset where you just automatically know hey, this is my time for Twitch and I'm going to be here. I got to show up, regardless of what I got going on in my life. If I'm sick, if I'm well, if I'm out of town, if I'm in town, I got to show up. I can't let dentistry, which is what normally happens, burn me the out and then I'll be like you know what? I don't want to do nothing. Leave me alone, everybody leave me alone, and then I just go and I want to relax. I can't do that, no more.

Speaker 1: 13:54

When you want to be disciplined, you just have to do it, even when you don't feel like it is discipline and I'm not looking because I'm driving, um, but discipline is, you know, just it's. It's almost like consistency, but it's a different mindset when you're disciplined versus consistency. Discipline means I'm being like on point, I'm not making up any excuses, and that reminds me of like dental school. When dental school you have to show up, you have to be disciplined and consistent. They're professors, they don't care nothing about. Oh, who cares if you gotta study all day, all night, on weekends, at nighttime, even when you're, even when you're sleeping, you gotta be studying. It's like that for real, for real, for real, for real.

Speaker 1: 14:42

So with the discipline, yeah, with consistency, that's just the every day, never miss a day. I heard one twitch person say never miss a day and that hit for me because I'm like oh, that's the mindset. You have to have, to never miss a freaking day. Sometimes I might not know what I'm gonna say, but guess what if I could be consistent and disciplined and not procrastinate, meaning like I'm gonna do it later, I'm gonna show up later and in the day gone, do this early. Guys, do what you gotta do early.

Speaker 1: 15:11

Man, like I'm just like on a whole nother freaking vibe and I want to really see if this works, because I've been doing it so wrong. I've been doing it so wrong like and I I'm intelligent enough and genius to know that you got to do things the way they meant to be done like I can't get on a platform and just do my own thing and think it's gonna work out for me, because I'm gonna lose every time and I'm tired of losing. Aren't y'all tired of losing in life, like I'm? I ain't gonna say I'm losing, but you know people are like oh, but you're a dentist. A lot of people over exaggerate that dentistry is hard as f**k.

Speaker 1: 15:49

What to really do this? You really gotta want it. You really gotta want it in your spirit, where nobody can't change your mind about it. You really gotta want it. You gotta do it. You gotta just do it like. Otherwise, yeah, it ain't gonna work out for you. It ain't, it ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 1: 16:06

So those are the three things that, um, I'm battling with like in life. And, granted, because I have so much on my plate, I could have an excuse like well, I'm running a demo practice, so I don't have time for twitch. That mean I really don't want it. That mean I really don't want y'all to be my audience. That mean I really don't give a out, you know. But if I really want this, I'm gonna show up, and that's the difference, like I haven't been showing up because I wasn't ready to be like in it, you know, but I'm like I have to show up regardless. I'm not waiting for the perfect remote or perfect game. You know f*** all that. I'm showing up. You know I'm showing up. This is me, my life, and I want y'all to be a part of it. I'll be back to talk to you guys. All right, make sure you are subscribed and hello viewer. Thanks for be back to talk to you guys. All right, make sure you are subscribed and hello viewer. Thanks for watching. Hopefully you return peace out.