Why we are lazy and what to do
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Karine Rusetskaya
Exploring the techniques of time management and applies them in practice for 12 years. He likes to plan and organize their time.
Laziness or procrastination?
To begin with talk about the laziness and procrastination at all, as sometimes these concepts call.
Laziness - lack of desire to act, to labor, the tendency to idleness (Explanatory Dictionary Ozhegova).
procrastination - the tendency to a permanent postponement of even the important and urgent cases, leading to the problems of life and painful psychological effects ( "Wikipedia").
If we translate the concept into a more understandable language, then immediately see the difference. Laziness - the reluctance to do anything, and procrastination - putting off affairs, with frequent here also applies to switch attention to time wasters like surfing the Internet or social networks. We are going to speak about laziness and how to overcome it.
In most cases, laziness - a consequence of the problem, not its cause, or the essence. We will understand what causes can lead to a state of a la Oblomov.
Why we are lazy
No interest in the affairs of
Often referred to as a home business, home routine interaction with government agencies and banks, boring tasks at work. Remember: the school you easily proceeded to the lessons in those subjects that you like, and delayed or does not do boring for you. You are older, and the approach remains the same. I myself have to think about the next trip to the traffic police somnolence, although replacement of the right to occupy is now no more than an hour.
No energy
It's not just the physical, but also the emotional energy. If you get tired at work or on the road, then how do we get the forces is not something that the exploits, and an ordinary life with its whirl of events?
I went to study and work on the trains for 12 years and I can say: the road is exhausting as well as training. It does not matter that you just sit. It takes time to magically force. Arriving home, you can hardly think, 'A Look I'm a movie in English. " The thought of such a load headache.
No goals and understanding why you need to do something
This problem is most common. For example, you offer to participate in the new project. Development prospects are not defined, gain is not expected, and in the daily activities you do not want to waste time on such a project.
How can you not be lazy when there is at least one of the following reasons? Yes it right guide to laziness!
What to do
Important: to solve the problems we are with the third rather than the first.
If there are no goals and understanding why you need to do something
Define the objectives
Even if you do not want to do the planning, to sum up, and so on, do it just for the fight against laziness. One-time fee. Write from what eyes burn. What causes joy and anticipation as soon as possible to begin (you are now forcing anybody it will not do). Write about what gives energy. Give yourself a day to record goalsTake your time, leave time for laziness.
deselect unnecessary
After drawing up a list of goals, take a pen and highlight the goals that have come up and want to achieve, you do not. For example, my mother taught you to meet her husband from work a hot meal, but in fact he does not need, and you do not want to have such attitudes. Or from the Internet fitonyashi insist that a week is necessary to arrange the three police and two cardio. And you're trying, but just can not keep up with this purpose. It is not yours. It is not for you personally, for the health and form have so much training. This figure is not directly related to you, as the imposed goal.
Check all these goals in the list. Take your time, think about where there were targets whose this idea.
Clean the head
If you at least once did the analysis of the wardrobe, then you know the feeling of relief when all unnecessary, inappropriate, broken things are no longer load and disappear from life. And all that remains - sits perfectly suited for cut and color for you. The same work will spend with the objectives.
All unnecessary and unimportant goals should remove or reshape for themselves.
On the example of the same home bustle: determine what result you want. Change the threshold to that comfort level where the goal is no longer frightening. For example, "Every day prepare fresh dinner at 19:00 and wet cleaning" can be replaced by "Get out as the need to cook dinner and three times a week, leaving a portion of the next day or ordering delivery food. " Those goals and objectives, which will remain, and we must fulfill.
If there is no power
Determine what time of day you are more productive as you need time to sleepWhen to do certain routine tasks. On this basis compose your schedule so that there is always time to rest.
Every day you have to have private time to reboot. If it seems that it is not, review the plans again - you just seems so. Without quality rest any business you can not do.
If there is no interest in the affairs of
This item is often irrelevant, if done all of the above. After you left the case that you really like, and without which it can not be, for example cleaning. And then there comes a time for another little rule.
Towards the most important, the most coveted goal, some tasks are routine and a bit boring.
Before you get paid for the sale of iPhone, Steve Jobs spent a lot of not very pleasant hours in discussions, debates and torments, how to make the product even better. Each time, releasing a new model, it had to be under pressure fans Apple technology. Are these moments from the biography of Jobs' most pleasant? Is the product of discussion clock is always happy? But when there is a goal, it is necessary to understand that you are willing to pay to achieve it. Start up the routine of your life, allow yourself to be bored. This will allow the brain to rest better and generate more ideas.