Are we are all lazy people?, love to procrastinate?, we find comfort in sleeping?, do we idle away time as though it were a useless commodity?, and we have all built our personal utopias where we do everything, except work?. It’s perfectly natural to be lazy, I imagine that if it wasn’t for the deadlines and binding commitments that force us to do work, none of us would go back to those hot seats of ours to sit up erect to have it all done to avoid sanctions from our bosses.
Thankfully, we all do realize that laziness should be overcome in order for us to succeed and to be useful to the society we live. I decided to talk about this because I personally don’t think I am lazy or I am the hardest working young man. But, I think I can do more honestly. Hard work I was told from childhood never breaks a bone. My grandma was 82, but still farms, and my mom I grew to know could work for 24/7 and never tired and my current mentor is incredibly.
My problem is I procrastinate a lot and think it’s deadly for my success, but guess what? I am breaking that a.s.a.p.
Many of us does have laziness in one way or the other as I stated earlier but we can all break the bondage of laziness as follows; Do it now mentality, take one step at a time, eliminate all forms of distraction (Facebook, twitter, music, text messages and some calls),self-rewards.
Develop that do it now mentality
If you don’t feel like reading, read. If you don’t feel like writing, write. If you don’t feel like doing exercise, do it. In short, action is the best motivation. The only thing that stops us from getting sucked into a task is not doing it, so do it now!
Take one step at a time
Sometimes, we get to think that, solving problems, should be done immediately and all at the same time. When failure to do so creeps in, we get discouraged from a lot, and hence must learn to, if that is food, take a bite after the other.
Likewise, if you try to do everything together, you lose motivation to do anything at all. Therefore, it’s best to split a bigger task into smaller ones and concentrate on only one part at a time. The less formidable the work, the more you’ll enjoy doing it.
Eliminate distractions.
When being lazy, we are often attracted to the distractions. Bloggers are found browsing others’ blogs when they are supposed to be writing theirs, and students are found watching TV when they should be studying, face booking or twitting at the expense of the books. These are all distractions that serve no good purpose. If you remove the distractions, for example, by disconnecting from the Internet and by locking the TV room, you’ll notice that it becomes easier to get back to the work.
Remember to motivate yourself
Why are you doing work? It is easy to forget the purpose of work with time. Remind yourself of how important your work is for you, for your personal satisfaction, for your life, family and so on. If you feel you are not clear about the purpose of what you are doing, it’s time to recap the goals you set down when you started.
Reward yourself after you think you have done something great.
Self-restraint and agendas for our daily lives are all fantastic and well, but we don’t want to be like some form of toy. If that sense of being a toy is in us, it will make us lose the zeal to work. But when I think of a reward from self or whatever source, then we gets the motivation to work hard to achieve that. We usually agonize over the fact that we are being lazy, yet continue to procrastinate for hours. It becomes difficult to get out of this condition unless we force ourselves to take action, which is, admittedly, the most difficult part. Though once we set about doing a task, the laziness disappears like a magician’s trick. What is it that keeps you busy and motivated? Let’s go for it.
So, I chose to write this after what I have experienced and it’s something that I shared over 90% and I hope you got that.
