The last post on laziness youāll ever need to read.
You get lazy sometimes.
Youāre likely reading this because you donāt like being or feeling lazy.
Iāve been addicted to working most of my life.
I love to create things.
And yet, there have been many moments where Iāve been stuck, seemingly unable to move.
I had days where Iād be watching videos non-stop.
And Iād hate myself for being there.
So I spent a long time figuring out how to be free of this lethargy.
What I found surprised me in its simplicity.
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1) Your RESISTANCE to laziness makes you lazy.
Weird idea, right? But this has been huge for me. As a natural lover of work, I hated any signs of my being unproductive.
I learned over the years that my resistance to laziness was making me less productive.
Why?
Because I was stressing myself out, this made me angry and stuck.
As soon as I allowed myself to be lazy, I relaxed and found that I wanted to get up and work, create and make things anyway.
2) You donāt know your ONE, next, simple step.
Thatās it?
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Do you mean I donāt need to know the whole breakdown? I donāt need to know my 1, 3 and 5-year goals? I donāt need to have it ALL figured out before I start?
Yes, thatās it. You donāt.
I made myself lethargic by filling my mind with the vastness of all myā projects.ā
You may recognise this as overwhelm.
I was rushing into my future. I was scaring myself. Of COURSE I was lazy.
When weāre overwhelmed, we act rationally by shutting down so we can cope. No one wants to take on a seven-armed monsterā¦
But what energises us?
Making things EASY.
So, make it easy.
Identify your next three small, super easy steps. Want to write a book? Write a one-line outline first. Then a five-line outlineā¦
The secret to relentless productivity is to continually identify that single, next, easy step. This is all the clarity you need. Seriously.
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3) Youāre not bringing your full attention to EVERYTHING.
None of us is motivated by a commitment to mediocre.
If I wasnāt committed to putting everything into what I was doing, whether recording a video or even washing the damn dishes, I knew Iād procrastinate on it.
Why?
Half-heartedness is soul-deadening.
Itās not who we are. Weāre all incredibly resourceful and capable ā buzzing with an undercurrent of energy.
We know deep down that weāre insulting ourselves if we donāt commit to being alive and present with everything we do and doing things the best they can be done.
Weāre reducing ourselves to empty robots. And this sucks. We know this. We feel it.
Mastery and full, engaged attention go hand in hand.
When we aim for mastery in everything, we cannot help but LOVE doing it.
Try this. For everything you do ā no matter how ātediousā ā put your all into it. Be totally present. Stop thinking about the next thing while doing the thing in front of you.
Your ālazinessā will dissolve.
Iām going to stop here because all else is fluff. I could add something here, such as: make sure youāre excited about what youāre doing. But you knew that anyway.
Youāll automatically choose the right things for you when youāre committed to going all-in.
Stick to the above, act on them, and you will be unrecognisable.
RECAP:
You will be free from ālazinessā when you:
Stop resisting your ālaziness.ā
Identify your one, next, easy step.
Bring your full attention to everything.
CONTRIBUTED BY ALEX MATHERS
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