The Art of Being Lazy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let me put it out there at the very beginning of this post – Being lazy is OKAY!

You do not want to do something because its too tedious? Some work that is so robotic doing it makes you feel your brain is shrinking? Something that needs to be done but it’s just so boring that your hands refuse to move?

It’s okay – do not do it! However, the obvious questions that then arises – how do we differentiate the people who will succeed in life with this attitude and the people who will not?

The underline difference comes between the type of laziness you have; productive laziness or unproductive laziness?

 

Being lazy is showing a disinterest in doing some task. If we were motivated in completing the task the question of being lazy would not come up at all. Laziness could be caused by the lack of will or the limitation of your skill. Either ways, both should be treated as a scope for your opportunity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being lazy is okay, till the time you ensure smartness compensates for it. Do not want to do a particular task the given way? Perhaps you feel the current way of doing it is not the best – simply put its the most ridiculous thing you have ever heard! Smartness, would be in finding another more efficient way of getting the same job done. This does not only compensate for your laziness but also makes you an innovator.

Now that’s a badge you will want to carry everywhere.

You should be aware of the reasons for your laziness. A lot of time it’s just pure laziness, which is not wanting to do something because you are simply not willing to do it. It’s not a question of skill but a feeling in which to just sit and stare at the wall is more interesting.

In such a case, you need to ask yourself if this task is really important to you. If it is then it should be reason enough for you to get up and complete the job but if you beg to differ, on the importance of the task, then you got some serious self assessment to do on where your life is heading. Why are you thinking and streassing about tasks that are not important to you? You need to come up with an action plan that will have you do things that are more important to you.

Laziness can also sometime be a direct result your inability to do the job itself. Now this can be a daunting situation to deal with. The primary objective of a self assessment here is not to figure out if the job is important to you or not, but how to acquire the skills required. This can becomes a firefighting scene if the timeline for the completion of the job is just around the corner. Determination and focus, these are the two traits that are tested to your limits. I cannot sugar quote this in anyway, but you really got to put your head down and firefight your way out. Look for resources and people that can help you!

Laziness is a limitation only if you lack the perspective. Otherwise, it can be the opportunity that changes your life.

 

-Anant Agnihotri