Overcoming Laziness To Get Things Done
I used to feel guilty every
night when I go to bed, thinking about the things that I did not do during the
day. Guilt is a very bad feeling, it can lead to depression.
But lately I’ve been setting
small (achieve-able) tasks for myself daily, and I check things off my list
once I’m done with them, and it gives me the feeling that I’ve really done
something during the day, instead of just wasting my time .
We are all lazy people. We love
to procrastinate, we find comfort in sleeping, we idle away time as though it
were a useless commodity, and we have all built our personal utopias where we
do everything accept work. We realize that laziness should be overcome in order
for us to be successful and be useful to the society.
So, what to do to beat laziness
and reclaim the lost inspiration?
Take action
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 bite at a time
Does
the idea of taking your whole meal in one massive bite sound repulsive?
Luckily, you can take it one bite at a time, enjoy it, and still consume the
whole meal.
Likewise,
if you try to do everything together, you lose motivation to do anything at all.
Remove the 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.
Find motivation
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
Discipline and schedules are all
good and well, but do we want to become robots? This the very thing we dread
and that is what leads us to lose motivation. You’ll be more enthusiastic to
complete a task when you know you are going to reward yourself at the end.
....................MARIKI HEAVENLIGHT
