Do you, like most people feel lazy sometimes? It could be just a momentary feeling of laziness due to being tired, or it could be a habitual state.
You might feel lazy when you need to carry out a certain particular activity, when you feel no motivation, or when you prefer to do something else.
Laziness is a state of lack of energy, lack of desire and often, indifference. It is sometimes caused by external conditions, such as the weather, when it is too cold or too hot, and sometimes, due to internal causes, such as lack of motivation, an inclination to procrastination or fear.
Sometimes, we might find ourselves in situations, where we enjoy being lazy, such while lying in bed beneath a warm blanket on a cold day, or lying on the beach in the shade on a hot summer day.
Do you sometimes tend to feel lazy, and wish to overcome this tendency?
Do you feel that laziness is holding you back and preventing you from being active? Are you procrastinating everything and do follow through with your decisions? Are you allowing laziness to dictate your life?
If this is true, you to learn to be more active and enthusiastic and less lazy.
How not to be lazy? Read on to learn.
How to Get Rid of the Tendency to Be lazy?
You can get rid of the habit of being lazy by being more active. You do so by stopping to procrastinate, by being aware of the importance of taking action, instead of letting laziness get the upper hand.
Things don’t get done by being lazy and making no effort.
Success requires activity, action, initiative, and taking advantage of opportunities. This requires an active person, not a passive one. It requires the ability to resist laziness and procrastination.
Tips on How to Overcome Laziness
How to overcome the habit of laziness?
How not to be lazy?
How to awaken inner strength and the ability to get up and do things. Things do not get done by themselves. Do you wish to keep things as they are, or do you want make positive changes in your life?
Here are a few tips and suggestions to get rid of laziness:
1. Use Visualization
Visualize yourself doing the very thing that you feel too lazy and reluctant to do. Imagine yourself doing it energetically and enthusiastically.
There will probably be inner resistance, yet, continue visualizing that you are acting with interest and love.
Feel that you have already accomplished your task, and enjoy that feeling.
2. Make a List
Make a List of things to do.
Arrange them from the easiest to the more difficult, and start doing them right now. Put simple easy to tasks at first, so as to avoid strong inner resistance.
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Congratulate yourself after accomplishing each task, and mark it as done in your list. Gradually, being a doer will become a habit.
3. Do Small Acts
Do small acts that you usually avoid doing. They will strengthen your willpower and self-discipline.
By doing something that you incline to procrastinate or which causes you inconvenience, you strengthen your inner muscles.
Getting out of your comfort zone strengthens your mental muscles.
Examples:
- Talk with someone you usually avoid talking to.
- Take a walk in the evening.
- Repair something at home that you keep putting off
- Avoid watching a late night show on TV, and instead, go to sleep earlier than usual.
4. Take a Walk
Do you wish to go for a walk, but feel lazy to do so? Go out and walk right now. Consider it as an exercise that strengthens you.
Doing things that you feel too lazy to do, strengthens your ability to resist laziness.
5. Do you Chores Now
Do you have a chore that you must do, but your prefer to postpone doing at some other time in the future? Go do it right now.
These could be small acts, like washing the dishes now, going out to through garbage, or call somebody on the phone.
6. Do Things Right Now
Make it a habit to do right now what you are inclined to procrastinate.
Doing small acts such as these is a great way to train your inner strength, and strengthen your ability of overcome laziness.
When to start? Right now. Get over the inner resistance to take action. This might be difficult in the beginning, but with persistence you will win.
“Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.”
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.”
“Periods of inactivity, I don’t know such things. I’m consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.”
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